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.

Then she invited me to her backyard farm to see her turkeys. She has three heritage breeds and many chickens in a huge pen in her gigantic backyard. Kazi has two Royal Palm turkeys and one Sweet Grass ...

This July 7, 2011 photo shows a Royal Palm turkey on a farm near New Market, Va. This attractive, smaller-sized turkey is on The Livestock Conservancy's Watch List, meaning it has an estimated ...

Further research led her to select the Royal Palm turkey breed, a largely white bird with bands of metallic black. Royal Palms can fly to escape predators, but they don’t fly away, she said.

Breeding stock of heritage turkeys such as Auburn, buff, black, Bourbon red, Narragansett, royal palm, slate, standard bronze, and midget White totaled just 1,335 in 1997, according to a census ...

Royal Palm Turkey, one of eight varieties considered to be heritage breeds.Photo: Amy Martin PachayIn 1997, The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy (ALBC) took a turkey census. For about half a ...

Royal palm turkeys are an exhibition breed with black-tipped white feathers, bluish heads, and red throats and wattles.

Royal palm turkeys are a black-and-white heritage breed that first appeared on a Lake Worth, Florida, farm in the 1920s, according to The Livestock Conservancy.

Traditional (“heritage”) breeds like Narragansett, Bourbon Red, Standard Bronze and Royal Palm grow more slowly than commercial turkeys, can survive outdoors, and yes, can reproduce all by ...

Penny is a royal palm turkey, an ornamental breed, but he’s exactly right that her plumage looks like a snowy owl.

Breeding stock of heritage turkeys such as Auburn, Buff, Black, Bourbon Red, Narragansett, Royal Palm, Slate, Standard Bronze, and Midget White totaled just 1,335 in 1997, according to a census ...

Further research led her to select the Royal Palm turkey breed, a largely white bird with bands of metallic black. Royal Palms can fly to escape predators, but they don’t fly away, she said.