Turkeys

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Turkeys do not jump. However, they can fly at speeds up to 55 mph for short bursts and roost in trees at night.

obviously, a turkey has 14 sets of stomachs. They digest small animals such as opossum that threaten they're cave. they Have scales contrary to most beliefs .

They aren't fighting they are mateing.

No, actually they are fighting. When turkeys mate it can be a clumsy, noisy affair. Due to the fact that they have been bred to be so physically large, it is difficult for the stag to mount the hen, and there is often a lot of manic shuffling and squawking.

I don't know why female turkeys fight males, but when mine do it is quite ferocious, totally relentless requiring intervention, often bloody and there is a completely different set of calls and displays to the mating game.

female turkeys can lay eggs, male turkeys can't

North America.

Wild turkeys are very smart but domestic turkeys are complete idiots. They will drown themselves in the rain. REALLY!! They will look up as the rain starts too fall and just stay there with there heads up as the water fills their nostrils and mouths and then they die.

defently not one mating is usually suffient although it is best to run the gobbler with the hens until her cluth is complete to be on the safe side also remove the gobbler as soon as the hen has set and to protect the clutch after they hatch hope this forfills your answer. goodluck if you are breeding them.

Yes, but training them to use a shot gun is a real pain.

I'll tell you next week. or I'll tell you at Christmas.

turkeys cover several miles every day,if chased they would not run far before flying away.

The Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) ranges throughout the eastern and midwestern parts of what is now the US. For an excellent range map and more information, see the Wikipedia article listed below as a related link.

A mature male turkey is called a "Tom". Yearling males are called "Jakes"

My Barred Rock chick weighs 1 pound at 2 and 1/4 months. Not exactly sure weather it's male or female yet. It may vary between breeds and sex.

To attract female turkeys. Believe it or not Tom Turkeys look the way they do because of evolution, manipulated by the sexual preferences of female turkeys. They prefer the really ugly Toms so by sexual selection the Toms just kept getting uglier and uglier.

no they do not

Mature turkeys have approximately 3,500 feathers.

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It appears that wild turkeys in Minnesota and Arizona don't migrate far from their home area. from http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/young_naturalists/turkey/index.html Minnesota's wild turkey is a smart bird. It flies with a powerful beat of its wings. It sneaks through the woods with barely a sound. Today there are more wild turkeys in Minnesota than there have been in at least 100 years. Most live in southern Minnesota. Toms can weigh more than 20 pounds. Hens weigh 8 to 10 pounds. Even though turkeys are big, they can fly and escape great horned owls and other predators. Wild turkeys live in hardwood forests near farm fields. Turkeys feed on insects and young plants in the spring and summer. In the fall they eat lots of acorns and hickory nuts, called mast, so they can build up a layer of fat to help them survive winter's cold. "Turkeys do not migrate south for the winter." They can find winter food by going to farm fields and eating corn and grain leftover from the fall harvest. from http://www.floa.org/flora_fauna.htm Forest Lakes, Arizona is located in a Ponderosa Pine forest that stretches from the town of Williams east along the Mogollon Plateau into New Mexico. This is the largest Ponderosa Pine forest in North America. The largest bird of the Ponderosa Pine forest is the turkey. "While turkeys migrate to more temperate climes when snow and cold hit the pine type, they don't move very far, and can be found a couple thousand feet lower down in the Pinon-Pine type throughout the winter months."

The male turkey, or Tom, has a beard (sprouts of hair from his chest), spurs (hooks on the back of his legs), is larger and often has a colorful head. A Tom also gobbles, where a hen (female turkey) does not

Yes. Most farmed turkeys that would show up on your table are Broad Breasted Whites. They are bred to be big and have a large breast. They are so big, they have to be butchered before they get to their full size because their legs will break under their own weight, and be artificially inseminated because they can't breed on their own. They are white in color so that dark pin feathers don't show on their skin, making a better looking cooked bird. There are however, what is called 'heritage' breeds which are very close to wild turkeys and these are generally grown by hobbyists. There are several colors available. They are a bit bigger than a wild turkey, but not as big as the broad breasted breeds. A wild turkey is about the size of a big chicken. In terms of the taste, it depends on what the turkey has been eating. The turkeys you get at the store have been eating manufactured pellets and butchered before their full weight so they don't have much fat (which makes them dry and kind of tasteless). A wild turkey likes to eat acorns and greens, and will have a much more full bodied turkey taste. Their meat is also darker because they get more exercise than a penned turkey. If you feed a domesticated turkey on a wild turkey diet, it will taste like a wild turkey.

at my local hatchery they are 50 cents each

Yes, turkey's can hear. They communicate with different clucks, cackles and gobbles.

The eggs will remain viable for up to 7 days in cool damp conditions. After that 7 day period the hatch rate will decrease by up to 20% per day

It is important to have acceptance of all shades of meat. Do stay away from any colors that are not typically flesh colored, such as green or red.