Big healthy bronze turkeys. Eggs have fantastic hatch rates producing strong healthy chicks. Parents are unrelated
At a glance
- Origin
- United States
- Scientific name
- Meleagris gallopavo
- Eggs per year
- ~80
- Egg colour
- Speckled cream
- Incubation
- 28 days
- Broodiness
- High
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Sizes
- Heritage
- Purpose
- Meat
- Purity
- Pure
About the Bronze Turkey
The Bronze takes its name from the iridescent coppery sheen of its dark-brown body feathers, each tipped with a fine black band; toms deepen this into glints of red, purple, green, copper and gold, while the tail carries a wide bronze band edged in narrow black and white. The pattern closely echoes the wild American turkey it descends from. The true Standard (heritage) Bronze, distinct from the commercial Broad-Breasted, is slow-growing, mates and rears naturally, and is a flavoursome rare breed on the Livestock Conservancy's Watch list.