Heritage turkey breeds

Chosing the right heritage breed turkey for your farm with go a long way in ensuring success with your turkey flock. Your perfect turkey will depend on your end goal, whether you're looking for a delicious and flavorful Thanksgiving dinner or a hilarious lawn ornmant, there is a heritage turkey for you.

The turkey is native to North America. In many places, these wild birds still roam the countryside. In spring, the tom’s call can be heard in the woodland. In fall, flocks scour harvested grain fields in search of remaining seed. Though the native birds were domesticated and even quite popular before WWII, turkeys are no...

Welcome to the Heritage Turkey Foundation

Some turkeys are more cold-hardy than others. If you live in an area with harsh winters, do try to find a breed known to be cold-hardy.

Often called the heritage breed, our Artisan turkeys are another premium addition to our specialty poultry products. Learn more about this unique breed today!

By raising heritage breed turkeys you acknowledge the importance of preserving genetic diversity. However you need to understand the challenges too.

farm turKEYS | lucky star farms has a very limited number of heritage breed turkeys ...

Meet the Royal Palm turkey! This threatened turkey breed is active, an excellent forager, and a good flyer. Read more here.

Turkeys aren't nearly as common in backyard flocks as they should be. The large and comedic birds are easy to raise and just as entertaining as they are edible.

Learn the most common heritage turkey breeds and the pros and cons of each one to help you choose what breed of turkey to raise on a small farm.

If you have been trying to select a turkey breed for your farm and gentle temperament is a top factor for you, we’ve got the information you want.

As the saying goes, “Good things come to those who wait.” Every year my Bourbon Red hens start to lay around the beginning of April. After the first week of laying I start collecting the eggs and setting them in our house at room temperature. Read more by clicking this pin now!

What is a Group of Turkeys Called? (All Collective Nouns) Turkeys are a North American bird in the genus Meleagris. Five subspecies of turkeys can be found in North America, each with slightly different physical characteristics. Groups of turkeys likely acquired the name rafters because they are sometimes found roosting in the rafters of barns or other outbuildings. Other collective nouns for turkeys include:

Here are some of my tips for brooding and raising turkeys. Raising turkeys is similar to raising chickens, but there are a few differences.

Raising Turkeys on the homestead can seem daunting when compared to chickens and ducks, but I promise you it is worth it! I have raised Broad Breasted White and Bronze Broad Breasted Orlopp turkeys in the brooder from day old poults to harvest, and also now my dad and I have had a pretty successful year with a breeding trio of barnyard heritage breed turkeys on his homestead.

Sexing Turkeys - Observing differences of year old turkeys

Learn to feed young turkeys a healthy diet that supports their rapid growth, according to these authentic 1800's instructions!

Take a look at some of these heritage turkey breeds, more like what our ancestors would have been eating than the industrial birds common today.