05/13/2026
🦃A Little Info about Merrick Farmstead LLC Sweetgrass Turkey line🦃
One thing I absolutely love about raising heritage-style Sweetgrass Turkeys, is the BEAUTIFUL diversity in coloring, patterning, and personalities within the flock. No two birds are exactly alike, and that’s part of what makes them so special here on our farm. ❤️
Our Sweetgrass flock includes a wide range of expressions and color influence. Our toms include Fall Fire, heavily penciled, and semi-penciled birds with rich chocolate and auburn undertones. Our hens range from cream and lightly penciled to heavily penciled, chocolate-toned, silver-influenced, and darker bronze-toned variations.
Because of that diversity, our pure Sweetgrass poults may hatch in shades of:
🤍 Light Yellow & Cream
🤎 Tan, Chestnut & Auburn
🖤 Heavily Penciled & Chipmunk-Patterned
✨ Soft blended heritage tones and patterns
We also have three beautiful Blue Slate Turkey hens in the breeding pen, so some poults are Sweetgrass Blue Slate crosses. Those babies can hatch in gorgeous smoky blues, brownish-blue tones, penciled blues, and black/yellow patterns, with many dark poults developing even more penciling and detail as they grow. 💙🖤
That variety is something I truly cherish. I’m not trying to create cookie-cutter birds — I love the rich heritage beauty, natural variation, and stunning surprises each hatch brings. 🦃❤️