Wow!! She is super gorgeous!! She's definitely a keeper!! I ordered Red Slates this year from Porters for a Spring 2015 Shipment. We also got Blacks & Penciled Blue Palms. I wanted the Lilac badly but They don't have them available this year. Kevin said they need to replenish their own breeding stock and will be keeping Lilacs back this year. But I do like the Red Slates and I know they can have Lilac babies so that will be nice!! Plus the Penciled Blue Palms are new and that was appealing to me. Can't wait to get more babiesAmong other breeds, I have Lilac and Red Slate turkeys. They are related genetically, so I bred my only Red Slate hen as well as my Lilac hens to my Lilac tom this year to save pen space. Decided I wanted to add another hen to that breeding group since one of the Lilac poults I kept turned out to be a hen. So I kept watching her, and something about her color just didn't look right. She has these light barring lines going across her tail and my Lilacs didn't have that. So I thought, well she has to be a Red Slate then, since that breeding produces only those two colors, Lilac and Red Slate. Finally took photos and sent to Kevin, asked which one, and he said NEITHER, she is a Blue Red Bronze. WHAT???? Well after numerous photos and emails, got it all straightened out. One of the Red Slate poults I got last year, the one that turned out to be a hen that I bred to my Lilac, was actually a Blue Red Bronze, sent by mistake since they look so much alike as poults. The only difference is the addition of one red gene. Now I have two, the mother and daughter, and would like to set up another breeding pen for them with my other Lilac tom next year because they are really pretty. But out of pen space right now...what to do, what to do. Here is this year's Blue Red Bronze hen, I think she is lovely:
