Split to White in Turkeys

[casportpony]

Today I was a little surprised to find two white poults in the incubator, so I guess that means that the parents are split-to-white? In peafowl, a split-to-white bird always has at least one white flight feather. Is there no way to tell if a turkey is split to white?

 

[Emmaloveschickens9156]

I’m not sure.. but your turkeys sure did have some hidden whitengenetics!

 

[R2elk]

Today I was a little surprised to find two white poults in the incubator, so I guess that means that the parents are split-to-white? In peafowl, a split-to-white bird always has at least one white flight feather. Is there no way to tell if a turkey is split to white?

Your poults may not be white as adults. If some of those eggs are from your "Sweetgrass" hen, she may be a Calico.

 

[R2elk]

Today I was a little surprised to find two white poults in the incubator, so I guess that means that the parents are split-to-white? In peafowl, a split-to-white bird always has at least one white flight feather. Is there no way to tell if a turkey is split to white?

I crossed a BBW hen with a Bourbon Red tom. The offspring was obviously split to white and did not have any white feathers. He was a Red Bronze.

 

[casportpony]

Your poults may not be white as adults. If some of those eggs are from your "Sweetgrass" hen, she may be a Calico.

Thanks. Since I collected the eggs from just two spots and never saw the sweetgrass hen near the nests, I don't think any are hers.

I crossed a BBW hen with a Bourbon Red tom. The offspring was obviously split to white and did not have any white feathers. He was a Red Bronze.

How was it obvious?

 

[R2elk]

How was it obvious?

The mother was white, the only way a turkey is white is if it has two recessive white genes (cc). The Red Bronze got one color gene (C) from the father and one recessive white gene (c) from the mother making him (Cc) or split to white.

 

[austria89]

Today I was a little surprised to find two white poults in the incubator, so I guess that means that the parents are split-to-white? In peafowl, a split-to-white bird always has at least one white flight feather. Is there no way to tell if a turkey is split to white?

Are those poults yellow, or orange?
Bronze-based and black-based white look more orange than yellow.
Purely yellow poults are black-winged bronze-based.
They can develop multiple different phenotypes (blue, red,...).

Bronze-based white:

Black-based white:

Black-Winged Bronze (incl. modifiers) - not necessarily white:

I started working on an overview page where one can see the different colors at different stages (Variety Overview).