Wild turkeys can fly. We used to have a flock of them who nested way up in our pine trees.
Domestic turkeys don’t fly...They are too heavy and fat and do not use their chest muscles...
[Nudge, nudge.]
Oh, don’t you remember? Those turkeys were just good at climbing trees! I sneaked out quietly one night to spy on them, and there they were, climbing up cedar trees, one leg at a time!
Turkeys are simply good climbers!
;-)
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.
And if you are ever under them when they take off, you’d think there were Pterodactyls taking off above you. Not a sight I expected to see, even with the abundance of turkeys around.