Each chick has a 50/50 chance of being male or female. Mottled Slate do not breed true and also produce Blue Palms, Royal Palms, Mottled Blacks, Lavender Slates, Marbled Blacks and Marbled Slates. Redmond WA 98053 Eggs are sold straight run meaning we cannot guarantee the gender. A special treat for drumstick fans, the entire turkey meat is dark, even the breast meat. However, an old Tom can grow up to a whooping 35 lbs. The Blue Slate turkey weighs between 18 and 33 lbs, with most of the hens resting on the lower end of things here. The Blue Slate turkey makes an excellent forager and backyard/farm turkey. Past breeding is thought to be derived from the Spanish Black turkey of USA and the Norfolk Black in England. One taste and you will never go back to a farm-raised bird again. Breeders are doing everything that they can to try and save the Blue Slate Turkey from extinction, but the breed is likely too far gone now, sadly. The Blue Slate turkey is a rare breed of turkey of the heritage turkey and admitted into the American Standard of Perfection in 1874. Heritage Blue Slate turkeys ' meat is flavorful, firm, and moist. You can also order the “Blacks” of the Blue Slate turkey breed on request and we will pick these out for you.Īmerican Poultry Association recognized Blue Slate turkey in 1874. As scientists studied the genetics of slate - Ghigi and Taibel in Italy (1929 & 1933), Walther, Hauschildt, & Prufer in Germany (1933), Jaap (1933) Marsden & Martin (1939), Jaap and Milby (1943), etc. Black to black will produce generally all blacks. The blue to black generally produces offspring of blues and blacks with no splash slates. Briefly, a splash slate bred to another splash slate will produce all splash slates (ash blue color with some small black dots), breeding the blue slate to blue slate will produce all three color patterns, blue slate splash, blue and black offspring. The color pattern of the slate turkey breed is interesting to work with on a breeding level. Our parent stock of blue slate turkeys on our farms produce 3 color patterns (blue splash, blue and black). The Blue Slate is a rare, Heritage breed fowl and a very old breed recognized as a standard breed in the U.S. They are capable of reproducing naturally and do go broody. The beak is horn in color the eyes are brown and the beard.
The head, throat, and wattles are red to bluish white. It is also called the Blue or Lavender turkey. The Blue Slate turkey makes an excellent forager and backyard/farm turkey. The Slate or Blue Slate variety is named for its color, which is solid to ashy blue over the entire body, with or without a few black flecks. The Blue Slate turkey is a rare breed of turkey of the heritage turkey and admitted into the American Standard of Perfection in 1874. This breed was accepted into the American Poultry Association in 1874. It is suggested that the breed originated via crossing a black and white turkey, but from what we can tell with genetics, this may not be the case. Please go to the hatching eggs link to order. The slate color is a genetic mutation, similar to the blue gene found in chickens.
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