Turkey Facts:
- 45 million Turkeys are eaten each Thanksgiving.
- 22 million Turkeys are eaten each Christmas.
- 19 million Turkeys are eaten each Easter.
- A 16-week-old Turkey is called a “fryer”. A 5- to 7-month-old Turkey is called a “young roaster” and a 1-year-old Turkey is a “yearling”. Any Turkey 15 months or older is called “mature”.
- Turkey breeding has caused Turkeys’ breasts to grow so large that the Turkeys fall over.
- A 15lb. Turkey consists of 70% white meat and 30% dark meat.
- The most popular ways to serve leftover Turkey are: sandwich, stew, chili/soup, casserole, and burger.
- The black-feathered (and thin) Wild Turkeys are not the same as the white-feathered (very overweight) ones that we serve at Thanksgiving and other holidays.
- Wild Turkeys can fly for short distances up to 55 miles per hour. Commercially raised Turkeys cannot fly (primarily because they are too top-heavy).
- Turkeys can drown if they look up when it is raining.
- Wild Turkeys can run 20 miles per hour.
- Turkeys can see movement almost a hundred yards away.
- Wild Turkeys spend the night in trees, flying to their roosts around sunset. They especially like Oak trees.
- A Wild Turkey has excellent hearing & vision, and their field of vision is about 270 degrees.
- Wild Turkeys were almost wiped out in the early 1900s. Today, there are Wild Turkeys in every state except Alaska.
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