Not all turkeys are headed for Thanksgiving tables. Tom, all 20-plus pounds of him, will spend the holiday strutting around a pen he shares with several breeding hens. Other turkeys in a nearby pen ...

Before the mass-breeding programs of the early 20th century, turkeys took roughly 28 weeks to get to their full size, growing at an estimated rate of about 0.75 to 1 pound per week, according to one ...

While shopping for your holiday turkey, other than standard turkeys, there are sometimes heritage or heirloom turkeys on offer. But turkeys are turkeys, so whichever will work, right? Not really!

ROLAND, Ark (Reuters) - P. Allen Smith can talk for hours about saving rare poultry. He also will be eating one of them for Thanksgiving. On his 650-acre Moss Mountain Farm outside Little Rock, Smith ...

Known collectively as “heritage turkeys,” many of the ancient breeds almost went extinct in the late 1990s. But those colorful, playful and spritely bird breeds are on the rebound as a small group of ...

LOS ANGELES It's a turkey with a proud heritage, so much so that gourmet cooks seem to be flocking to poultry farms this Thanksgiving season to buy one. Mary and Rick Pitman say the phone at their ...

As Thanksgiving nears, it is time to pay homage to the iconic bird. Not just tasty and delicious, turkeys are multifaceted critters with fascinating histories. Enjoy these ten facts about turkeys. As ...

STURGIS, S.D. – During the COVID-19 pandemic, disruptions in the food production supply chain and workforce sometimes led to empty grocery shelves, pushing some consumers to turn to locally grown ...