What is the Ridley Bronze Project?
We are dedicated to preserving The Ridley Bronze Turkey, Canada’s only surviving heritage turkey.
We are maintaining multiple breeding flocks of Ridley Bronze Turkey that are direct descendants of the University of Saskatchewan with no outside introductions. We are dedicated to preserving this breed as historically accurate in appearance and disposition. We do not raise any other kind of turkey and our birds do not hatch out white poults.
The conservation of the Ridley Bronze Turkey not only preserves part of the history of farming in Canada, but ensures that small farms can have access to a docile, intelligent, and hardy breed of turkey that can naturally reproduce.
Historically, the Ridley Bronze Turkey did not hatch all white poults. Many bloodlines of the Ridley Bronze have been crossed with other turkeys, and are producing all white offspring. The historical significance of this breed is reliant on maintaining it true to the original temperament, form and colour as it was in the 1940’s and when the University of SK held flocks.
