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. ... “Royal Palm Turkey.” The Livestock Conservancy.

Kazi has two Royal Palm turkeys and one Sweet Grass. She’s planning eating one of the Royal Palm turkeys for Thanksgiving. You can hear my conversation with Kazi this Saturday. I was struck by how ...

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.

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. News Space Sports Opinions Restaurants Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals.

This year’s turkey, Penny, is an 8-month-old royal palm turkey. Royal palm turkeys are a black-and-white heritage breed that first appeared on a Lake Worth, Florida, farm in the 1920s, according ...

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 ...

Now known as “heritage turkeys,” many of the ancient breeds almost went extinct in the late 1990s. But those colorful, ...

Penny is a royal palm turkey, an ornamental breed, but he’s exactly right that her plumage looks like a snowy owl. Donations for the privilege of posing with Penny go to a program called IGNITE, ...

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 ...

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 ...