Slate Blue Slate Turkey
A variety of the Slate Turkey
Turkey · Speckled cream eggs · Meat
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About the Slate Blue Slate Turkey
The standard Slate variety: dark steel- or slaty-blue throughout, dotted or flecked with black, with a red head changeable to bluish-white. This is the colour the APA recognised in 1874 and the form UK and US standards judge to. Flecking ranges from fine speckles to inch-or-larger black spots, but wholly black or white feathers, or any brown or buff, are disqualifying defects. A naturally-mating, good-foraging American heritage turkey, kept largely for exhibition and prized flavour, and a conservation-priority breed.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Speckled cream
- Eggs per year
- About 60
- Purpose
- Meat
- Sizes
- Heritage
- Incubation
- 28 days
- Broodiness
- High
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Origin
- United States
- Scientific name
- Meleagris gallopavo