List of turkey breeds
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There are currently eight breeds of domestic turkeys recognized by the American Poultry Association, but many more exist as officially unrecognized variants or as recognized breeds in other countries.
- Auburn or Light Brown, an extremely rare heritage breed, numbers are not considered high enough for inclusion in the Standard.
- Beltsville Small White Turkey, a hybrid created by the USDA at Beltsville, MD. Once very popular; now a rare heritage breed.
- Black Spanish Turkey (Black Norfolk Turkey) a heritage breed.
- Blue Slate Turkey or Lavender, a heritage breed.
- Bourbon Red Turkey, a heritage breed.
- Bronze Turkey, the heritage strain of the Bronze is recognized, while the Broad Breasted Bronze, like the Broad Breasted white, is an unrecognized commercial meat strain.
- Broad Breasted White, a non-standardized commercial strain that does not qualify as a breed, only used for commercial meat production.
- Broad Breasted Bronze, a non-standardized commercial strain that does not qualify as a breed, only used for commercial meat production.
- Buff (or Jersey Buff), a very rare heritage breed. There is also an extremely rare variant of the Auburn, called the Silver Auburn.
- Chocolate, Chocolate Brown in color. Day-old poults are white faced with chocolate bodies.
- Czech Wild White-braided Turkey (Česká krůta divoká bíle lemovaná)
- Midget White, a rare heritage breed sometimes conflated with the Beltsville Small White.
- Narragansett Turkey, a heritage breed.
- Royal Palm Turkey, a largely ornamental, mostly white heritage breed.
- White Holland Turkey
- Zagorje Turkey (Zagorski puran) - Croatian variant of turkey
