Turkey Cross

[Birch Run Farm]

So what might I expect to get for color/pattern with a Narragansett tom over a royal palm hen? A pile of hippie turks?

 

[ShadyGlade]

Lots of various bronzes.

 

[brewmiss96]

heritage guy at my feed store saw my 'narraganset' hen and said she must be a royal palm/narraganset cross, I think she's pretty.

 

[ShadyGlade]

I think that your turkey is lovely. Some of the prettiest are crosses.

 

[Harp Turkey Ranch]

After a little breeding you could expect something like this here. He is a result of a few years of breeding, but started with a Narragansett Tom on Royal Palm hens.

 

[Birch Run Farm]

Wow, they are gorgeous!

 

[apukanski]

They are some good looking birds. Man I love turkey

 

[brewmiss96]

any thoughts on what offspring would look like from a black spanish tom over a royal palm/narraganset hen? I'm getting one once I get done moving and would love to know the outcome.

 

[sandspoultry]

Quote:
Kevin Porter is the turkey color genetics "guru", he knows it inside and out and is free to share info. He has a website, porters rare turkeys or something like that, just google his name and it will come up.

Steve in NC

 

[Harp Turkey Ranch]

any thoughts on what offspring would look like from a black spanish tom over a royal palm/Narragansett hen?

If you are to take a black Spanish tom over a royal palm hen you will come up with a form of molted black, of course it will take you a few breedings to get it complete, but that is what you'll get. It took us a few years to get this guy, but was it worth it, he is awesome.