Sometimes called Black Spanish or Norfolk Black turkeys, this breed was domesticated from Mexican wild turkeys brought back to Europe by the first Spanish explorers who visited the New World ...

Unlike factory-farmed turkeys that require mountains of feed and rarely produce young, heritage turkey breeds are often more self-sufficient, better breeders and more efficient growers.

The great majority of today's domesticated turkeys may not be able to fly, but their ancestors sure got around. The quintessential New World bird, Meleagris gallopavo, was already an Old World ...

Turkeys, the only domesticated animals from the New World that are now used globally, were actually domesticated twice -- once in Mesoamerica as was previously believed and once in what is now the ...

What an SCBI scientist and collaborators found was that the domestic turkey that ends up on the dinner table exhibits less genetic variation than not only its ancestral wild counterparts, which were ...

Domesticated turkeys today are derived from Mexico. The Spanish took these Mexican birds back to Europe as domesticated birds. ... Commercial broad breasted turkeys reach mature weight at about 16 to ...

More than 1,500 years before Christopher Columbus and his crew sailed to the New World, Native Americans had already domesticated turkeys twice: first in south-central Mexico at around 800 B.C ...

Breeds of wild turkey on the table in early America have nearly disappeared, replaced by bigger, faster-growing, cheaper to raise domestic birds. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; ...