For the past 23 years, Heritage has committed themselves to the raising and distribution of Frank Reese's entire turkey flock, the oldest continuous breeding lines left in the United States, with genetics traceable back to the 1830s. Frank's Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch in Kansas is the only remaining commercial Standardbred heritage poultry hatchery in the U.S. to meet these standards: Certified Standardbred, Pasture Raised, Free Ranging Flock, Vegetarian Fed, Naturally Mating, and Antibiotic Free from hatching to plate.
Frank has realized his goal of increasing the population counts of his cherished rare breeds thanks to his tireless work over the years promoting their importance to the food supply, and his hard labor in the breeding barns and hatchery. Frank has partnered with a growing network of dedicated farmers to raise his birds to his exacting standards. As always, Frank carefully selects all the breeders that he keeps back on his own farm for hatching the following year, thus these culturally important genetic lines continue.
Note: Turkeys are ~12-13lbs, and are delivered frozen.