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To: goat granny

PBS did a story on raising wild turkeys:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/my-life-as-a-turkey/full-episode/7378/

Darn, can’t get the video to play.


43 posted on 09/17/2012 11:41:27 PM PDT by JohnnyP
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To: JohnnyP

The last house I lived in, the fellow who’s back yard butted up to mine...we would sometimes talk over the fence...He was in a club that set up and keep tract of the wild turkeys they let loose in Michigan. When I told him about the wild turkey I had on the farm, he said it might have been a domestic turkey that got loose from a farm...the turkeys they let loose are kept tract of and I think he said also genetics....there is a domestic turkey that looks just like the wild ones. The difference is noted in the edge of the tail feathers....I think he said the wild are edged in brown and the domestic was white...The wild turkey association doesn’t like the domestics that run loose, their offspring are not genetic 100% wild....

This is just a stab in the dark, (being over 20 years ago) but I think the one I ended up having was wild....not sure but the demestic one’s are called Russets....Royal Palm are totally white except for the edging on each feather is black..


44 posted on 09/18/2012 2:56:25 AM PDT by goat granny
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