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5. Turkeys can fly
The most pop question regarding turkeys this holiday time of year is belike " is it ready to eat ? " But the season ’s most pop bird has some surprise up its feathery sleeve . They can fly ! And not all gobble . Here are five turkey truth from Life ’s Little Mysteries .
Not only can wild turkeys vanish , but they can do so for forgetful volley at up to 55 mph . The wild dud ’s habit of feeding on the ground might explain the myth of their flightlessness , but many can wing high enough to rest in trees . Domestic turkeys , however , such as the Broad Breasted White turkey , which is the most widely - used stock commercially , can not fell because their centre holds them down : They have been bred to be much sound and with a larger breast .
4. Turkeys sleep in trees
Although turkeys are often thought of as being anchored to the ground , wild turkeys actually spend their nights perched atop of tree arm . This continue them gamy above their natural predators , which let in brush wolf , foxes , rotter , raccoons , snakes and dogs . When they waken up , dud give a series of soft yelps before descending ; it ’s a " good morning ! " call to make certain that the rest of their roosting mathematical group is okay after a night of not seeing or hearing one another .
3. Turkey eggs aren’t profitable
Turkey hens produce larger eggs than chickens do , and they require more nesting blank space than chickens , which usually live in cramp coop conditions . Turkeys also lie in few egg and start popping them out later in life than chicken , the champion egg - producers . Some turkey breeds are also very protective of their bollock , which can make collecting the eggs more challenging . For farmers , bring up turkeys for meat is easy and more profitable than trying to deal turkey testicle , although some organic farm stands and naturalfoods stores do bear them .
2. Female turkeys don’t gobble
A distaff turkey is call a hen and the male turkey is name a gobbler and for a good reasonableness . Only manful turkeys make that adorable gobbling speech sound ; hens clucking and make small , chirp - like noise . Each male Meleagris gallopavo apply his unequaled gobbling and strutting skills toattractthe ladies .
1. Ben Franklin recommended the wild turkey as the national bird
According to the Library of Congress records , Benjamin Franklin express in 1784 that :
" For my own part , I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our rural area ; he is a bird of forged moral character ; he does not get his inhabit honestly … like those among man who know by sharping and robbing … he is loosely poor , and often very icky . Besides , he is a rank Sir Noel Pierce Coward ; the little mogul - birdie , not bigger than a sparrow , attacks him boldly and drives him out of the territorial dominion … For in truth , the turkey is in comparison a much more respectable Bronx cheer , and withal a true original aboriginal of America . Eagles have been establish in all state , but the dud was peculiar to ours … "
If Ben had had his way , I enquire if we would be eating barefaced eagles on Thanksgiving ?
Eastern wild turkeys.
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