Comments on: 8 Turkey Tales to Tell Next Thursday

By: little gator

little gator — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:10:00 +0000

Lincoln was the first US president ot pardon a turkey. IT won’t let me post a link but a quick Google for “Abraham Lincoln turkey” will lead to
sources.

By: jmd

jmd — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:43:00 +0000

@ mavis, I have heard that as well about the male turkeys being used for guarding the area but have not really seen anything to verify that. That would be an interesting post, about unusual guard animals and how they would guard their owners or property.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:04:00 +0000

Strange, in humans, bigger breasts usually encourage mating…

By: Mavis

Mavis — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:37:00 +0000

My mom’s relative’s used to own a turkey farm in Pennsylvania. She would always tell us about tales from the turkey farm from when she visted as a kid, but just recently told us about how the head male turkey used to be their guard dog! They would keep him in the front yard as he was more agressive than the dogs to keep unwanted visitors away!

Also, my cousin was playing basketball outside of his house one day when a flock of wild turkeys landed and literally chased him in the house!

By: bzzyb

bzzyb — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:51:00 +0000

@danonymous – That’s AWESOME. Great comment!! I love Dirty Jobs and I find it quite educational as well.

Wow, breasts so large it has made breeding impossible. Goes to show that bigger breasts aren’t necessarily better…

By: danonymous

danonymous — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:11:00 +0000

On the show Dirty Jobs they went to a turkey farm in Minnesota once to collect semen and inseminate turkeys. The turkey farmers said that they’ve bred them to the point where the breasts are so large they physically cannot mate on their own.

By: Jason!

Jason! — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:12:00 +0000

From what I always understood, the reason domesticated turkeys cannot fly is because they have been bred to provide more meat than a wild turkey, and thus are too heavy to fly.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:06:00 +0000

Why would NASA give the Apollo 11 crew turkey dinners if they landed on the moon in the middle of July? I do recall that the crew of Apollo 8 got a turkey dinner on their way to the moon because it was Christmas.

I’ve come across a message board that provides a quote from a now dead NASA link:

“During Apollo 11, the astronauts ate two meals. Meal A was bacon squares, peaches, sugar cookie cubes, coffee, and pineapple-grapefruit drink. Meal B included beef stew, cream of chicken soup, date fruitcake, grape punch, and orange drink.”

By: Stew

Stew — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:54:00 +0000

We always get confirmation that Thanksgiving is coming by seeing wild turkeys in our backyard. Just saw three of them last week, quite big too. We’ve seen them fly up into tree branches.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:05:00 +0000

The word my family used for wild turkey flight was “levitate.” They were like feathery hovercraft, and could launch nearly straight up into the air onto a tree branch to get away from our dog.