Interesting Facts about Turkeys

The turkey was first domesticated in South America. It happened many years before Columbus reached the New World. The English called the bird “turkey” because it came to England on ships that traded with Turkey. In Spain and France, people called it the Indian bird because they thought (as Columbus did) that the home of the turkey was India, not America.

The white of the egg and almost all the yolk are not part of the chicken, but food for the developing chick.

The Chinese had hens more than three thousand years ago.

You can tell what color eggs a hen will lay by looking at the lobes of its ears. If the lobes of its ears are white, the hen will lay white eggs; if they are brown, the eggs will be brown too. This is a general rule, but there are some exceptions.