Turkey poults practicing their balance. Raising turkeys entails food — and fun. Learn how to raise turkeys in your backyard and how to raise turkeys for meat and eggs. There’s so much to enjoy about ...

Turkeys are an icon of the Thanksgiving table. The National Turkey Federation estimates 46 million frozen turkeys are consumed each year. Although frozen, mass-produced birds are the most efficient ...

BONDVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- As the bronze-colored turkeys strut about the farm yard, they fan their tail feathers and break into a simultaneous gobble, completely oblivious to their fate. ``They're ...

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 ...

Only a handful of South Dakota producers raise heritage breed turkeys to sell. They do it out of a desire for preservation, to tap into a growing base of highly selective consumers, a preference for ...

EUCLID, Minn. - Michael Klawitter is proud that his flock acts like turkeys. "We were so dissatisfied with the white turkey that everybody is familiar with," Michael says. "They didn't work as ...

FOUNTAIN, Minn. — Early this month, Sara Austin and her husband, Tom, of Hilltop Pastures Family Farm were already selling out of their 65 heritage breed Bourbon Red turkeys through Thanksgiving ...

BUFFALO, Minn. —By day, Larry Marquette is a science teacher at Dassel-Cokato High School. He also works with the FFA chapter. But his spare time is all for the birds — the birds on his family’s ...

Heritage breed turkeys are making a comeback. These birds taste more like the turkeys that Native Americans and settlers ate in the 17th century, compared to today's Butterball turkeys. Just 20 years ...

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 ...