What is my Turkey?

[Pearlescent]

I have a Turkey hen who is supposedly a Sweetgrass X Standard bronze, but I have reason to believe her mother was actually a midget white, from the photos of her mother and siblings. I am just curious as to what she is. I can’t find any pictures that look like her, she has white wing stripes, tan tail tip & red and tan speckles.

Not sure if this is important, but she started laying eggs at 9 months.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

I have a Turkey hen who is supposedly a Sweetgrass X Standard bronze, but I have reason to believe her mother was actually a midget white

Hi, hope you are enjoying BYC!

See calculators in following links..

https://www.turkey-color-calculator.com/

https://porters-turkey-color-calculator.com/

A selction of what some varieties look like..

https://porterturkeys.com/Varieties-c153176750

Happy gobbling adventures!

 

[my spoiled chickens]

Maybe a jersey buff X Bronze turkey mix

 

[austria89]

I have a Turkey hen who is supposedly a Sweetgrass X Standard bronze, but I have reason to believe her mother was actually a midget white, from the photos of her mother and siblings. I am just curious as to what she is. I can’t find any pictures that look like her, she has white wing stripes, tan tail tip & red and tan speckles.

Not sure if this is important, but she started laying eggs at 9 months.

In this picture she almost look like an Auburn.
Can you post more pictures of her in natural daylight?

 

[Pearlescent]

In this picture she almost look like an Auburn.
Can you post more pictures of her in natural daylight?

it’s overcast where I live, so all recent photos are lacking of sun, but when there is sun, she shines blue and green.
I’m pretty sure she isn’t an official breed, because I met her mother and she’s fully white, and her father was a bronze variant. Unless I’ve been fully lied to by the people who gave her to me, which is possible.

 

[Pearlescent]

oh, also, her two siblings, a male and a female, looked like standard bronzes. Sister died, male is an adult in a different home.

 

[R2elk]

I’m pretty sure she isn’t an official breed,

The breed is Turkey. She is not one of the eight varieties officially recognized by the APA but there are many varieties they don't officially recognize.

You can see many of the Varieties at @austria89's site.

Turkey Color Genetics

 

[austria89]

it’s overcast where I live, so all recent photos are lacking of sun, but when there is sun, she shines blue and green.
I’m pretty sure she isn’t an official breed, because I met her mother and she’s fully white, and her father was a bronze variant. Unless I’ve been fully lied to by the people who gave her to me, which is possible.

Based on these pictures, she's definitely an Auburn. If her mother was a white, then she's definitely split for white. Her father must have been a brown-carrier.
This also explains why the siblings looked like standard Bronze. The brown-allele is an sex-linked recessive allele.

The female offspring had a 50/50 chance of inheriting it.
Male would not show the effects of this allele at all, as they would need 2 copies of this allele.

 

[Pearlescent]

Thanks!