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Courtesy American Livestock Breed Conservancy\/ Phil Sponenberg<\/em>
Farmers interested in raising rare heritage turkey breeds, like the Jersey Buff,\u00a0are helping to\u00a0preserve a time-honored tradition. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

With growing consumer demand for tasty heritage turkeys to grace holiday tables<\/a>, more farmers are trying their hands at raising them. However, farmers often find themselves struggling to find production information specific to raising the colorful cousins of the Broad Breasted White turkey found in supermarket freezers. Since the industrialization of turkeys in the late 1950s, much of the knowledge and printed information on how to select, raise and breed traditional turkeys has slowly been lost.<\/p>\n

In response to this demand, the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy released a new heritage turkey resource.\u00a0Selecting Your Best Turkeys for Breeding<\/em><\/a> is the second publication in the ALBC Master Breeder series, which is a collaboration of known master breeders, researchers and ALBC staff to codify knowledge and historic information about heritage-breed selection, husbandry and breeding.<\/p>\n

The information found in Selecting Your Best Turkeys for Breeding<\/em> was once widely available when small-scale agriculture and pastured poultry keeping was commonplace. Changes in agricultural practices have caused this information to be largely lost to subsequent generations.<\/p>\n

\u201cALBC recognized that there was a knowledge gap when it came to raising and breeding heritage turkeys and many other rare breeds<\/a>,\u201d says Marjorie Bender, ALBC research and technical program director. \u201cIf we want to establish a sustainable market for these birds, we\u2019ve got to give the farmers the tools they need to raise and breed quality animals.\u201d<\/p>\n

As recently as 1997, heritage turkeys were in danger of extinction. At that time, only 1,335 breeding heritage turkeys were found in the United States. Today, thanks to the efforts of breeders, producers and consumers, the heritage turkey\u2019s numbers are on the rise, with 10,404 turkeys reported in the 2006 census.<\/p>\n

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