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Buff (or Jersey Buff) is a very rare heritage breed. Chocolate breed is chocolate brown in color. Day-old poults are white-faced with chocolate bodies. Midget White is a rare heritage breed sometimes confused with the Beltsville Small White. Zagorje ( Zagorski puran) is a Croatian variant of turkey.
Heritage turkey. Heritage turkeys of various breeds on a farm in Maryland. A heritage turkey is one of a variety of strains of domestic turkey which retains historic characteristics that are no longer present in the majority of turkeys raised for consumption since the mid-20th century. Heritage turkeys can be differentiated from other domestic ...
The Bourbon Red is an American breed of domestic turkey. It is named for its reddish-brown plumage and for its area of origin, Bourbon County, Kentucky, where it was developed in the last years of the nineteenth century. It was accepted into the Standard of Perfection of the American Poultry Association in 1909, and in the early twentieth ...
The domestic turkey (Meleagris gallopavo domesticus) is a large fowl, one of the two species in the genus Meleagris and the same species as the wild turkey.Although turkey domestication was thought to have occurred in central Mesoamerica at least 2,000 years ago, [1] recent research suggests a possible second domestication event in the area that is now the southwestern United States between ...
The Broad Breasted White is commercially the most widely used breed of domesticated turkey. These birds have shorter breast bones and larger breasts, sometimes rendering them unable to breed without human assistance (typically via artificial insemination ). [ 1] They produce more breast meat and their pin feathers are less visible when the ...
The Bronze is a breed of domestic turkey. The name refers to its plumage, which bears an iridescent bronze -like sheen. The Bronze had been the most popular turkey throughout most of American history, [ 1] but waned in popularity beginning in the mid-20th century. Later in its history, the breed was divided into two distinct types: the Broad ...
Capra hircus. The Angora or Ankara[ a] is a Turkish breed of domesticated goat. It produces the lustrous fibre known as mohair. It is widespread in many countries of the world. Many breeds derive from it, among them the Indian Mohair, the Soviet Mohair, the Angora-Don of the Russian Federation and the Pygora in the United States. [ 4]: 358.
The Royal Palm is a breed of domestic turkey. It is not primarily selected for meat production, and is usually kept as an ornamental bird with a unique appearance, largely white with bands of metallic black. The Royal Palm first appeared in the 1920s on a farm in Lake Worth, Florida, apparently as a cross between Black, Bronze, Narragansett ...