Where didi turkeys come from? From here - the Americas. The first turkey was a wild species that was brought to Spain in the 1500s.
Domestic turkeys have been around for centuries and were first domesticated by Native Americans. Mexico is mentioned as the first place of domestication. I expect it took the Europeans to really hybridize them, and not just domesticate them. How they got from the skinny wild fast-flying and fast-running turkey to the fast-growing, huge-breasted, large-size current domestic versions. This seems to be of no interest in the google search engine.
What seems to be of interest is the volume of questions and answers on whether a turkey can mate with a chicken, a partridge, a peacock, a pheasant...pick another fowl and the question seems to be there.
Domestic turkey toms are grown to an average 41 pounds and hens to an average of 17 pounds. That means our turkey every year is a hen as we get the smaller size.
So we should check out a few turkey jokes:
Why did the turkey cross the road? He wanted people to think he was a chicken.
Fruit comes from a fruit tree, so where does turkey come from? A poul-tree.
What’s the difference between a turkey and a chicken? Chickens celebrate Thanksgiving.
What kind of weather does a turkey like? Fowl weather.
While we have wild turkeys in Niagara, I doubt if I have any turkey pictures. In comparison, Canadian geese stay still long enough for a good picture.
