A Tale of Two Turkey Farms
Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and although no one, least of all us here at Edible Alaska, would dare rob you of the quintessential bathtub bird defrosting situation (the Butterball is entire...
Turkey Facts
Female turkeys don’t gobble.
Like chickens, turkeys like to perch to sleep and can often make it up into trees.
Turkeys have excellent vision and can see ultraviolet light.
It takes approximately 84 pounds of food to raise a 30-pound turkey.
The broad-breasted white turkey is the most popular for meat production. Both Luke’s and Frosty Meadow order/sell this breed.
Wild turkeys were almost hunted into extinction in the early 1900s. Today they have rebounded in many parts of North America.
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