It's obvious that domesticated turkeys will never win a beauty contest, mainly due to the excessive genetic engineering that has been done to them. What they will win, if you give them a chance, is your heart. Turkeys remember your face and they will sit closer to you with each day you revisit. Come back day after day and, before long, a few birds will pick you out as their favorite and they will come running up to you whenever you arrive. It's definitely a matter of the birds choosing you rather than of you choosing the birds.
Different birds choose different people.
I was surprised to see the birds that most sought my company didn't particularly favor Lorri - instead, several other birds had made Lorri their favorite. You begin learning the subtle gestures by which the animals communicate. And as you become more able to connect with them, they open up to you as well. It's a process that can take days to start, and more fully unfolds given weeks and months of regular time with the animals. During my summer at Farm Sanctuary, I witnessed so many people come to visit who only needed an afternoon getting to know the animals in order to make the decision to become vegetarian or vegan.