WHAT A BUNCH OF TURKEYS!!!
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Introduction
Thanksgiving will be here soon. Time to bone up on your turkey trivia!
A wild turkey has excellent vision and hearing. Their field of vision is about 270 degrees. This is the main reason they continue to elude some hunters.
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Here's looking at you, kid!
Wild turkeys can run at speeds of up to 25 miles per hour.
Benjamin Franklin wanted the national bird to be a turkey.
Turkeys spend the night in trees. They fly to their roosts around sunset.
Turkeys fly to the ground at first light and feed until mid-morning. Feeding resumes in mid-afternoon.
It takes 75-80 pounds of feed to raise a 30 pound tom turkey.
Turkey eggs are tan with brown specks and are larger than chicken eggs. They hatch in 28 days.
Wattle, Snood, Caruncle!!
The fleshy growth under a turkey’s throat is called a wattle.
Turkeys have a long, red, fleshy area called a snood that grows from the forehead over the bill.
The caruncle is a red-pink fleshy growth on the head and upper neck of the turkey.
Turkeys have a long, red, fleshy area called a snood that grows from the forehead over the bill.
The caruncle is a red-pink fleshy growth on the head and upper neck of the turkey.
The costume that "Big Bird" wears on Sesame Street is rumored to be made of turkey feathers.
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Turkey skins are tanned and used to make cowboy boots.
Turkeys have been bred to have white feathers. White feathers have no spots under the skin when plucked.
Turkeys will have 3,500 feathers at maturity.
For their first meal on the moon, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin ate roast turkey in foil packets.
Astronauts --Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin
White meat has fewer calories and less fat than dark meat.
Turkey is low in fat and high in protein.
Turkey breeding has caused turkey breasts to grow so large that the turkeys fall over.
In England, 200 years ago, turkeys were walked to market in herds. They wore booties to protect their feet.
Wild turkeys were almost wiped out in the early 1900's. Today there are wild turkeys in every state except Alaska.
Turkeys have heart attacks. The United States Air Force was doing test runs and breaking the sound barrier. Nearby turkeys dropped dead with heart attacks.
The ballroom dance the "turkey trot" was named for the short, jerky steps that turkeys take.
Male turkeys gobble. Hens do not. They make a clicking noise.
Gobbling turkeys can be heard a mile away on a quiet day. Gobbling starts before sunrise and can continue through most of the morning.
Forty-five million turkeys are eaten each Thanksgiving.
Six hundred seventy-five million pounds of turkey are eaten each Thanksgiving in the United States
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Most of the turkeys raised for commercial production are White Hollands.
Baby turkeys are called poults and are tan and brown.
Since 1947, the National Turkey Federation has presented a live turkey and two dressed turkeys to the President. The President does not eat the live turkey. He "pardons" it and allows it to live out its days on a historical farm.
"I BEG your pardon!"
Poor turkeys, kind of sounds like they don't really have much of a life; sleeping in trees, falling over from big breasts. Maybe I will have to put one out of it's misery November 22:~) YUM!
Did you hear?
I just yelled...JOE, YOU NEED TO SEE GRATEFULDAISY'S TURKEY LIST!! IT IS GREAT! YOU WILL LIKE IT!!!
He yelled back.
WHAAAAAAT???
I just yelled...JOE, YOU NEED TO SEE GRATEFULDAISY'S TURKEY LIST!! IT IS GREAT! YOU WILL LIKE IT!!!
He yelled back.
WHAAAAAAT???
Hey Kathybelle, next time you cook chicken maybe you should try using a blow torch like in the picture above (well, you've tried just about every other way to cook them, after all!). :D
A blowtorch is an excellent backup plan.
Have you ever had a deep-fried turkey where the entire bird (ready to cook, of course) is immersed into a vat of hot peanut oil? That is a popular method for turkey hunters (one named Joe) around here.
You know I didn't fry that chicken. I knew something was missing.
Have you ever had a deep-fried turkey where the entire bird (ready to cook, of course) is immersed into a vat of hot peanut oil? That is a popular method for turkey hunters (one named Joe) around here.
You know I didn't fry that chicken. I knew something was missing.
Hi Kathybelle, no I haven't ever had turkey fried in peanut oil, but I have heard of it. I think that's the one they always show where the vat catches on fire on those funny video shows. We always roast it in the oven here for what seems like forever till the aroma is over the whole house. Maybe you could write a list on how to fix a turkey in peanut oil?
Another good way to cook a turkey is to grill it. My husband stuffs it with bacon and tin foil, then wraps it in bacon and foil around it. It's the moistest turkey you'll ever have, and the gravy is fabulous!
My husband will have to tell the recipe. I don't fry. I only boil, bake, shock, gas and grill (and blow torch).
And yes, there is usually a giant overflow of oil onto the flame as the turkey is put into the "too full" fryer. You know "excitement" is part of the whole eating experience in our family. :-)
Laurabelle, anything stuffed and then wrapped in bacon and grilled is going to be delicious!
And yes, there is usually a giant overflow of oil onto the flame as the turkey is put into the "too full" fryer. You know "excitement" is part of the whole eating experience in our family. :-)
Laurabelle, anything stuffed and then wrapped in bacon and grilled is going to be delicious!
Hey, Kathybelle, you could do a list of dos and don'ts when you go Turkey Hunting!
Laurabelle, your grilled turkey with bacon sounds yummy! :)
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