Wild turkeys are the same species as domesticated turkeys. However, our taste for breast meat has encouraged farmers to selectively breed turkeys to be huge. In some cases they actually have problems walking and if they fall over they can't get up without assistance.
It goes without saying that due to all that extra meat on their bones they can't fly. Kind of sad... Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: [email protected] Sent: April 26, 2013 4/26/13 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: PESO: Roosting Turkey Lovely shot! I still think it's weird turkeys sleep in trees, they look like too heavy to fly. But a condo development I formerly lived in had a lot of turkeys and a lot of oaks, and that is where they stayed at night. It looked odd. Marnie aka Doe :-) In a message dated 4/24/2013 6:26:36 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: A beautiful moon across the river this evening. Nicely silhouettes the turkey roosting in the tree beside our house. http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p155717848/h5811daa8#h5cd71a0a stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
