We are now accepting deposits on 2010 holiday turkeys.  Last year we were sold out by summer.  Just $20 reserves your turkey for your holiday celebration.  Just indicate the approx. size you wish to have. 

Want to "grow" your own?  Taking orders for hatching eggs and poults for Spring 2010.  $3.50 per egg/$9.00 per day-old poult (min. order)

Narragansett Turkeys are named for the Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island.  It descends from a cross between native Eastern wild turkeys and the domestic turkeys brought to America by English and European colonists beginning in the 1600's.


Rare Jersey Buff Turkeys are at Patient Wait Farms!  The Buff is a historic turkey variety of the mid-Atlantic region named for the beautiful color of its feathers.  It was accepted in the American Poultry Association in 1874 and used to develop the Bourbon Red variety in the late 1800's.

Although the breed did ultimately become extinct -- the Ag. Experimental Station in Millville, NJ initiated a program to develop a small to medium size market turkey -- hence, the Jersey Buff!

Buff poults have arrived, and we are in the process of obtaining more hatching eggs from a private breeder.  Buffs have been selected for both production and plumage.  We will have some poults available for purchase next year.  Let us know if you are interested in helping preserve this genetic resource and would like to be on our list to order poults next year for your farm.



 

Buckeye's are currently on the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy's critical list.  Although it sounds counter-intuitive -- we must "eat them to save them".  By breeding for egg production and meat, it creates demand and reason for farmers to produce more of this hardy breed.





Jersey Buff Toms (picture courtesy of ALBC).  We are expecting poults to expand our flock this March -- hatching eggs and poults available 2011.


Our Narragansett turkeys enjoying some shade under the mulberry tree!