Thanksgiving Turkey Facts

Thanksgiving Turkey Facts

I hope you have a very blessed and Happy Thanksgiving. As you sit around the table with family and friends today -- here are some turkey facts you can share.
Ben Franklin - in a letter to his daughter - proposed the turkey as the official United States bird.
The heaviest turkey ever raised was 86-pounds - about the size of a large dog.
A 15-pound turkey usually has about 70-percent white meat and 30-percent dark meat.
The male turkey is called a tom. The female turkey is called a henThe turkey was domesticated in Mexico and brought to Europe in the 16th Century.
Wild turkeys can fly for short distances up to 55-miles per hour. Wild turkeys can run 20-miles per hour.
Turkeys’ heads change colors when they become excited.
Most of the turkeys raised for commercial production are White Hollands.
It takes 75 to 80 pounds of feed to raise a 30-pound tom turkey.
A domesticated male turkey can reach a weight of 30-pounds within 18 weeks after hatching.
Male turkeys gobble. Hens do not. They make a clicking noise.
Forty-five-million turkeys are eaten each Thanksgiving. Twenty-two-million turkeys are eaten each Christmas. Nineteen-million turkeys are eaten each Easter.

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