What breeds of turkeys do you guys have????

[Eric Exley]

thanks for the info

 

[Eric Exley]

I got a positive identification of Big Tom he is a Golden Narragansett.
But Big Tom has a puzzling thing about him even though he is 50/50 wild and golden narragansett.
when i had bred him to a BB Bronze hen, the chicks came out color sexable the dark green-black chicks were hens and the lighter ones were toms.
the toms were silver, golden, and normal narragansett colors, but there was one blue one though the blue one.
unfortunatly they didn,t survive after the 5.5 month old mark
And so in the spring i will try to hatch more from him in the spring.

 

[preciouspanda]

2 bronze 1 chocolate and 4 Royal Palm

 

[R2elk]

I got a positive identification of Big Tom he is a Golden Narragansett.
But Big Tom has a puzzling thing about him even though he is 50/50 wild and golden narragansett.
when i had bred him to a BB Bronze hen, the chicks came out color sexable the dark green-black chicks were hens and the lighter ones were toms.
the toms were silver, golden, and normal narragansett colors, but there was one blue one though the blue one.
unfortunately they didn't survive after the 5.5 month old mark
And so in the spring i will try to hatch more from him in the spring.

You can forget about referring to him as 50/50. If he is a Golden Narragansett, he is a Golden Narragansett. There are a number of the different varieties that when bred together either create more of their own variety that will breed true or carry a hidden recessive color gene that might show up if mated with another variety carrying that gene.

It is the Narragansett color gene that causes the sex links. In males it takes two Narragansett (nn) genes for the color to show. In females it only takes one Narragansett color gene for the color to show.

You should learn how to use the Turkey Color Calculator on Porter's site.

A Golden Narragansett tom (bb nn Rr) bred to a Bronze hen (bb N- RR) can produce Golden Narragansett hens (bb n- Rr), Narragansett hens (bb n- RR), Bronze toms (bb Nn RR) and Red Bronze toms (bb Nn Rr).

 

[Eric Exley]

I wish i could say that. but one of his offspring was blue in color.
so how can that blue one be explained?

 

[R2elk]

I wish i could say that. but one of his offspring was blue in color.
so how can that blue one be explained?

The most likely scenario is that the egg that produced the blue poult was not fertilized by him. Another possibility is that it was not actually a blue poult. The slate gene is a dominant gene (D) so only needs one gene to be expressed. He obviously is not carrying the slate gene. The gray gene (cg) is a recessive gene that needs two copies (cgcg) to be expressed. It is possible that you had a gray poult rather than a blue poult.

 

[Eric Exley]

Could Be He is the only Tom i have.

 

[stephysteph11]

What? Send pic

False alarm. I think it just hadn't started growing yet because it's poking up now. Maybe she is just a late bloomer lol.

 

[danielley101215]

False alarm. I think it just hadn't started growing yet because it's poking up now. Maybe she is just a late bloomer lol.

My Peep <3

 

[micah wotring]

1 bourbon/buff poult (no name yet)
1 Narraganset/bronze poult (no name yet)
and 1 bourbon red tom. (Ronan)

Pic is of Ronan last fall. Since then he's molted and all his tail feathers are a beautiful dark brown!