If you’re willing to spend a little more, look for a free-range turkey. Free-range birds are required to have continuous outdoor access for more than 51 percent of their lives. Because their lives are ...

FRAZEE, Minn. - Peeping day-old turkey poults cuddle in a warm 92-degree barn on David Burkel's turkey farm a few miles east of here. In 22 weeks, the fuzzy, tennis ball-sized male chicks will become ...

Randy Wattermann raises both heritage-type turkeys, foreground, and broad-breasted turkeys on his family farm near West Point, Neb. The heritage-type birds cost more, but “it's a more concentrated ...

With Thanksgiving coming up, people have birds on their mind. But today we’ll talk about the type of turkey in our skies year-round, and you wouldn’t want one near your table. People will often ...

Every turkey should be pardoned by the president. Each Thanksgiving, millions of Americans sit down to lavish American Gothic-esque spreads of turkey and its accouterments. And every year, a good ...

The first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza was detected in the U.S. in a commercial poultry flock back in February. Since then, it has killed about 6.4 million turkeys, just about 2.9% of the ...

Discover how Butterball tackles the challenging aMPV virus in turkey flocks, exploring vaccination strategies and critical ...

White turkey birds on a field of grass. At Thanksgiving dinner, lucky families will avoid impassioned discussions about religion and politics. But another argument is almost inevitable: white meat ...

“Awkward” would probably be the most benevolent word I could use to describe the explosive launch into flight of the California quail. Certainly, the words graceful or athletic do not come to mind.