🦃 Black
Turkeys · breed reference
The turkey that crossed the Atlantic TWICE: taken from Mexico to Europe by the Spanish in the 1500s, bred black there (“Black Spanish,” “Norfolk Black”), and brought back with the colonists. Dark pin feathers dress a stippled carcass — the same market problem as the Cayuga duck, and part of why the whites won.
| Species | Turkey |
|---|---|
| Kept for | Both |
| Eggs per year | ~60 |
| First eggs | ~32 weeks |
| Table-ready | ~28 weeks |
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