Chipola Alpacas
LAVENDER TURKEYS
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Lavender turkeys (also known as self blue) only produce lavender offspring. Blue
slates look much like lavender but have a few sometimes hard to see black spots and when
breeding blue slates about 25% of the offspring will be lavender, 25% will be
a black bird with white spots and about 50% blue slates. I have only lavenders so all offspring will also be the color of the photo.
That 'thing' that hangs down over the beak on a tom is called a 'snood'.
Lavenders are smaller than Narrs but still a neat looking turkey.
While the blue slate coloration is relitively easy to find, the self blues
are much harder to come by.
I have 4 hens and a tom in this pen so I should have plenty of eggs for sale this summer.
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