Tips takes time off for turkey, resuming its regular publication schedule beginning Dec. 8. The Thanksgiving Day travail Millions of American women spend an entire day or more preparing Thanksgiving dinner just so it can be gobbled down in 20 minutes. In addition, the housecleaning before the big meal and the dish-washing afterward can contribute to feelings of resentfulness and irritability women may feel on this day. The commercially raised, plump, white turkeys you see occasionally in the long, rectangular, aluminum sheds off the side of the road have little in common with their wild counterparts, says U veterinary medicine professor and turkey expert Mohamed El Halawani. Unlike turkeys we see on farms, El Halawani says, wild turkeys are slender with very dark, iridescent feathers, and are wary and difficult to see in the wild.
Wild turkeys can fly, but they prefer to run.
They generally eat acorns, fruit and seeds. Turkey brothers in the wild stay together for most of their lives, and compete to see which brother will be dominant. During the breeding season, the brothers display together to attract a female. Once a female chooses a particular group, she will mate with the dominant brother. Take turkey's temperature Be safe when roasting, broiling or boiling that Thanksgiving turkey, says U food technologist Bill Schafer.