Turkey poults practicing their balance. Raising turkeys entails food — and fun. Learn how to raise turkeys in your backyard and how to raise turkeys for meat and eggs. There’s so much to enjoy about ...

BRISTOL — Ever curious, the broad-breasted white turkeys run to the chicken wire fence to see what Phillip Munson is up to on this windy day. At first, they communicate in their gobble, gobble, ...

The first thing to know about domesticated turkeys is that they do not really go “gobble, gobble”. Children’s books lie. Instead, turkeys emit either sharp seal-like barks or a strange trilling coo ...

Life on the Grigg family homestead in Hesperus is good – at least for the turkeys. A flock of 58 birds roam freely, graze for bugs and plants, and roost in a warm shed, protected from wild animals by ...

Finding a homegrown Thanksgiving turkey in Ramona during the 1930s was relatively easy. The town was known as the “Turkey Capital of the World” at that time, with a large turkey farming industry. But ...

PROVIDE FOR THEIR CUSTOMERS. THE FAMILY TELLS ME IT’S GOING TO BE DIFFICULT NOT RAISING TURKEYS FOR YOUR HOLIDAY MEAL. IT’S A TRADITION THEY HAVE HAD FOR DECADES, BUT THEY TELL ME IT WAS ONE THEY ...

Most of a bird’s power production for flight occurs in the breast muscles. This mass of meat — pectoralis muscle for the powerful downstroke on top of the supracoracoideus muscle for the upstroke — is ...