If you’ve already mastered the art of raising your own meat chickens, you might be wondering whether it’s time to branch out to a new species of poultry. Ducks are fun to raise (particularly for ...
Bronze Turkey: The Domesticated Wild Turkey
This is a fun turkey variety, a close descendant to the Eastern Wild turkey. Well suited for free-ranging and open farms, a homesteader with space would love the addition of Bronze Turkeys to their ...
Black Turkey: Great Meat Producers for Small Farm
Black Turkeys have been used in the breeding of many varieties of other turkeys. However, the original Black Turkey breeding standards have not been upheld over years of breeding and are rapidly ...
About Narragansett Turkeys: An Older And Showier Turkey Variety
Narragansett Turkeys are a beautiful meat producer that would make a good pick for a sustainable homesteader. Such a lovely and well-rounded variety has significant potential but got pushed aside by ...
About White Holland Turkeys: A Rapidly Declining Heritage Variety
White Hollands turkeys are a unique variety that is slowly disappearing and bred insufficiently to maintain the original standard of the variety. This is a large turkey, good for meat production and ...
The Benefits and Concerns of Raising Turkey Poults with Chickens
Does raising turkeys sound like the logical next step for your homestead but rumors of their high mortality rates are giving you second thoughts? Several years after raising Cornish-crosses for ...
About Beltsville Small White Turkeys: Perfect For Small Scale Meat Production
Many people don’t have space or money to keep up with a 30-45 pound turkey until processing time. The Beltsville Small White Turkey is perfect for a smaller scale farmer with limited space. Many ...
About Royal Palm Turkeys: Not All Turkeys Are Just for Meat
This gorgeous variety of turkey is arguably one of the prettiest out there, and for a good reason. Unlike most turkeys, the Royal Palm is primarily an ornamental and exhibition variety. This bird is ...
About Slate Turkeys: Heritage and Endangered Meat Producers
I believe Slate turkeys may be some of the prettiest turkeys I’ve had the pleasure of witnessing. Of course, I’m rather partial to blues and lavenders so that may be why, but they are certainly ...