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The Royal Palm is a breed of domestic turkey. It is not primarily selected for meat production, and is usually kept as an ornamental bird with a unique appearance, largely white with bands of metallic black. The Royal Palm first appeared in the 1920s on a farm in Lake Worth, Florida, apparently as a cross between Black, Bronze, Narragansett ...
Black turkey: 1874 heritage turkey Alternatively called Spanish Black or Norfolk Black or American Black. Bourbon Red: 1909 heritage turkey Bronze: 1874 heritage turkey The Broad Breasted Bronze, like the Broad Breasted White, are nonstandardized commercial strains that do not qualify as a variety. Narragansett: 1874 heritage turkey Royal Palm ...
In a 2003 census by the Livestock Conservancy, heritage turkey populations had increased by more than 200 percent. By 2006, the count of heritage turkeys in the U.S. was up to 8,800 breeding birds. [6] Though all but the Bourbon Red and Royal Palm are still considered critically endangered, the birds have rebounded significantly. [4]
The domestic turkey (Meleagris gallopavo domesticus) is a large fowl, one of the two species in the genus Meleagris and the same species as the wild turkey.Although turkey domestication was thought to have occurred in central Mesoamerica at least 2,000 years ago, [1] recent research suggests a possible second domestication event in the area that is now the southwestern United States between ...
Royal Palm turkey; S. Slate turkey; W. White Holland This page was last edited on 9 June 2011, at 23:22 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The Midget White is sometimes shown in the same class as the Beltsville Small White, but despite the similarity was bred from different lines, mostly white commercial turkeys and the Royal Palm. [1] A newcomer among turkey breeds, it was originally developed in the 1960s by Dr. J. Robert Smyth at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a ...
A wedding gift of nine turkey eggs was the start of the operation. [5] The farm is on approximately 900 acres (360 ha) of land and raises free-range turkeys (about 60,000 in 2008) under pecan trees on about 30 of those acres. [6] The farm purchases poults (baby turkeys) from a hatchery in Oakwood, Ohio.
The Beltsville Small White is a modern American breed of domestic turkey. [1] [2] [5] It was developed from 1934 at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center of the United States Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, Maryland, [6] and was named for that town and for its physical characteristics — small size and white plumage. [7]