![]() Sadly, the birds were likely to be met with a bang for their bravery. Wild turkeys, as the first settlers found them, walked right up to them. In anecdote after anecdote from the 17th through the 19th centuries, the wild turkey was characterized as showing an almost Disneylike friendliness towards people. The wild turkey the early Europeans and colonists encountered was not the bird that dominates 20th-century hunters' talk. Like female chickens, female turkeys are called hens. This is perhaps due to the gobble gobble sound which they make along with grunts whilst strutting about shaking their feathers trying to attract females for mating. Male turkeys are called Toms or Gobblers.Wild Turkeys forage for food such as acorns, seeds, roots, insects and wild berries.For more information: Factory Farming:Turkeys Domesticated turkeys weigh twice as much as a wild turkey, this is because they are fattened in factory farms and fed growth hormones and have no room due to close confinement in which to exercise. ![]()
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