Fascinating and unique
Turkeys are great characters and they are a big part of the Washbrooks animal family
When they are let out in the morning they have a tendency to dance
Turkeys don’t just ‘gobble‘, they make lots of sounds ‘purrs‘, ‘yelps‘, ‘clucks‘ and ‘kee-kees‘
When you next visit listen carefully to what sounds you can hear……
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Talking turkey facts
🦃 Turkeys are native to the Americas and were domesticated by the Aztecs in Mexico. They were taken to Spain in 1500 and introduced from there to England in 1526
🦃 Male turkeys are called ‘stags’
🦃 Female turkeys are called ‘hens’
🦃 An infant turkey is called a ‘chick’ or a ‘poult’
🦃 Turkeys lay large eggs which are roughly twice the size of chicken eggs
🦃 The flabby and elongated bits of skin that dangle from the turkey’s neck is called a wattle and the snood hangs down over the turkeys’ beak
Thank you to ‘The Turkey Club’ for some of these facts
