Royal Palm Turkey poults for sale hatching March to June. The Royal Palm turkey breed is also included in Slow Food USA's Ark of Taste, a catalog of heritage foods in danger of extinction. The toms are noted for being non-aggressive and the hens are particularly good mothers.
American Livestock Breeds Conservancy Conservation Status: Watch
Standard Weights are: old tom - 22 pounds; young tom - 16 pounds; old hen - 12 pounds; young hen - 10 pounds
Production: small sized turkey variety. One of the few turkeys not primarily selected for meat production, the Royal Palm turkey is best known as an ornamental bird with a unique appearance. Primarily kept as an exhibition bird, or on small farms, it lacks the size for large scale commercial use.
Color: Royal Palm turkeys are white with a sharply contrasting, black edge on the feathers. The saddle on a royal palm turkey is black and the tail is pure white with each feather having a band of black and an edge of white. The coverts on Royal Palm turkeys are white with a band of black, and the wings are white with a narrow edge of black on each feather. The breast is white with the exposed portion of each feather ending in a band of black to form a contrast of black and white similar to the scales of a fish. The Royal Palms have deep pink shanks and toes, light brown eyes, and black beards.
History: The first known bird in America to have the Royal Palm color pattern appeared in a mixed flock of Black, Bronze, Narragansett and Wild turkeys on the farm of Enoch Carson of Lake Worth, Florida in the 1920's. This bird was a tom and he bred it to off-colored bronze (actually Blackwinged bronze) hens from similiarácrosses. He got Black Winged Bronze toms and Royal Palm hens. He took the Royal Palm colored F1 hens and mated back to their sire, the original Royal Palm tom, to develop the first large flock of true breeding Royal Palm turkeys. Others soon followed suit. Royal Palm Turkeys recieved acceptance in to the American Poultry Association's Standard of Perfection in 1971. Homozygous recessive genotype: b1b1cgcgngng
Varities: We only have Black and White Royal Palm Turkey poults for sale. There are breeders working with Blue Palm turkeys, Chocolate Palm Turkeys, Penciled Palm Turkeys, Penciled Red Palm Turkeys, and Red Palm turkeys.
Other Names: In Europe, it is sometimes called the Crollweitzer, Pied or Black-laced White.
What kind of turkey has black and white feathers? Royal Palm turkeys have Black and White Feathers.
