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Slate turkey

Breed of turkey

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 21, 2022
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Slate, or Blue Slate, is a breed of domestic turkey known for the slate gray color of its plumage. Lighter birds are sometimes called Lavender turkeys. Turkeys of the Slate breed may actually be any number of shades between pure black and white, but only ash-gray birds are eligible for showing under the directive of the American Poultry Association’s ‘’Standard of Perfection’’, into which they admitted as a variety in 1874. Slate turkeys are listed as critically endangered by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, and meet the definition of a heritage turkey breed.

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“Slate turkey” enters the record as breed of turkey. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Slate, turkey and Breed can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1874—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Slate, turkey and Breed.
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“Slate turkey” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Slate, turkey and Breed provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 21, 2022. The first chronological checks are 1874.

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This entry incorporates text from “Slate turkey” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.