I raised 20 turkeys from chicks last year. There were 15 white butcher turkeys and 5 heritage turkeys that look like wild turkeys. All of the heritage turkeys could fly and roosted up on too of the barn.
Yep. Wild turkeys can climb AND fly.
When I was a boy, there was a farmer on my uncle’s land who raised cows, grass, and corn and had about twenty turkeys in the barn which were slaughtered for Thanksgiving.
Those guys were carefully contained, so they couldn’t fly and hardly had a chance to walk. The idea was to keep them tender for Thanksgiving.