Well Les, wild turkeys can fly.
However the domesticated birds can't fly to save their lives, as you learned.
And the domestic birds can weigh about twice or more the wild bird.
Reminds me of another real incident that happened many years ago during the beginning of the the jetliner age, while designing jetliners.
The decision was made to shoot frozen (dead) turkeys at the windshield with an air cannon to test the effectiveness of the glass to impact.
The first test did not go well...
The turkey went through like a hot knife through butter and continued through the rear cockpit bulkhead and kept on going...
Someone forgot to specify that the birds should be thoroughly thawed first!!