heritage-turkey-breeds

Breed Profile: Royal Palm Turkey
April 30, 2024 · · Poultry 101, Turkeys

The Royal Palm turkey is a beautiful heritage variety that is ideal for homesteaders and free-range small farms due to its hardiness, thriftiness, and self-sufficiency.

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Breed Profile: Bourbon Red Turkey
January 22, 2024 · · Turkeys

The Bourbon Red is a naturally breeding turkey adapted to free-range systems and sustainable farming. Its smaller size suits families keen on heritage breeds and natural breeding.

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Breed Profile: Standard Bronze Turkey
September 1, 2022 · · Poultry 101

The Standard Bronze turkey is a heritage variety that is self-sufficient in a free-range system and can breed and raise poults naturally. It is an important variety to conserve for future sustainability.

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Heritage Poultry
August 14, 2022 · · Poultry 101

Some of us raise poultry for fun. Others want eggs or meat. But some take activism further and save heritage poultry breeds from extinction.

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Broad-breasted Vs. Heritage Turkeys
November 23, 2021 · · Eggs & Meat

Though frozen turkeys reside in your grocery store all year, they become the main attraction during the final two months. Many like the idea of heritage turkeys for Thanksgiving

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Breed Profile: Narragansett Turkey
November 18, 2021 · · Poultry 101, Turkeys

The Narragansett turkey is a heritage variety of American origin, valued for its hardiness, self-sufficiency, excellent mothering skills, and superior flavor.

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Raising Heritage Breed Chocolate Turkeys
November 10, 2021 · · Poultry 101

Since we already have heritage breed chickens, we wanted to help other endangered poultry. We settled on Chocolate Turkeys.

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Breed Profile: Black Turkey
April 12, 2021 · · Poultry 101

The Black turkey, sometimes called the Black Spanish or Norfolk Black, is a heritage variety of traditional poultry popular before the 1960s. Consumers are rediscovering its hardy attributes and superior flavor.

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Tips for Brooding Heritage Turkeys
March 8, 2021 · · Poultry 101

With self-sufficiency gaining popularity, you may be considering expanding your flock beyond just chickens. Why not add heritage turkeys to your farm?

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Raising Heritage Poultry as a Sustainable Meat Source
February 27, 2020 · · Eggs & Meat

Much effort is put forth into saving heirloom seeds; why shouldn’t we save heritage poultry for meat with the same effort?

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