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Turkey Facts

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An adult male broad-breasted white turkey, the quintessential “Thanksgiving” breed among poultry farmers.

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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