do turkies fly and do chickens fly?
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Yes,wild turkeys fly and so do chickens although some breeds fly better than others.Turkeys raised on turkey farms cannot fly. Wild turkeys are relatively weak fliers and will escape on foot if possible; at night, these birds roost in trees. They are capable of achieving speeds of 50 miles per hour (80 kilometers per hour) in flight.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_turkey\n\n\nSome breeds of chickens such as the game and bantam are decent flyers.
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nothing, its just that its hatched by different kinds of chickens. that is it.thanks for the points!
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Yes.\n\nWild turkeys roost in trees at night. They fly to their roosts at about sunset and fly to the ground at first light where they feed until mid-morning. They will often roost again for a short period in mid-morning and feeding will resume in the afternoon. Turkeys can cover several miles during the course of the day while feeding.
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Chickens can barely lift off the ground, since they lost the ability to fly through centuries of breeding, but ducks can fly at 64 km/h, and travel thousands of kilometres!
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Not just storks ... but migrating birds in general  usually fly in the "V" formation.  This has been studied by a lot of very educated people in many colleges and universities.  Aerodynamics is the best guess answer. Each bird taking advantage of the wing tip vortices of the uplifting air of the bird in front of it.  This updraft actually lifts the bird making it's flight a little easier.
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Chickens will eat both grain and small insects.  Most members of the family Corvidae will eat grains, berries as well as insects, small vertabrates and carrion.  Hope that answers your question.
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The male turkey is called a tom\nThe female turkey is called a hen\nTom turkeys have beards. This is black, hairlike feathers on their breast. Hens sometimes have beards, too.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_flight
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"Chickens are as smart as small human children, according to animal behaviorist Dr. Chris Evans, who runs the animal behavior lab at Macquarie University in Australia and lectures on his work with chickens."\n\nAs we all know, small human children feel the urge to run out into the road at random... Perhaps the chicken shares this quality since it also shares the quantity of brain power. So logically, we now know that we have to ask small human children (since they can respond verbally to us instead of annoying and useless clucks) why they feel the pressing need to cross the road in order to find a true answer to the question :P
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Chicks came from chickens. Chickens came from eggs. Babies come from different origins...ok?
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A fence? A barn? A river?  OK I give up, What is the difference between a rooster, a hen, and a chicken?
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None... A Purdue chicken doesn't become a Purdue chicken until it is processed.
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You have obviously never been attacked by a turkey.  Chickens are much cuter than turkeys....but turkeys are just so darned tasty it is their own fault!
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Because they are fowl
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Although chickens are not exactly the paragons of flight ability, there are several adaptations visible in their skeleton that are the legacy of their avian heritage and their ancestor's ability to fly.\n\n(note that the fact that chickens still possess these adaptations even though they are not strong fliers is yet another piece of evidence that evolution is true.  any creationists have any rebuttals?)\n\n- Hollow bones.  Most birds have hollow bones that reduce the mass of their skeleton, making it easier for them to achieve lift.\n\n- Keel-like carina.  Also known as the breastbone, this is the big keel in the KFC breast piece that allows for the attachment of those huge flight muscles that we find so tasty.\n\n- Enlarged flight muscles.  Attached to the carina are the two main muscles, one for bringing the wing in a downbeat and the other for lifting the wing again on the upbeat.  You can see these two muscles when you eat that KFC breast piece too.\n\n- Pillar-like Coracoids.  Bones on either side of the bird's shoulders that act as support for the rib cage, and keep it rigid and not collapsing when the wings flap.  You can see these coracoids on the KFC rib pieces.  On humans, the same bone is much smaller and fused with the scaphoid (shoulder bone).  It's the pointy part of your shoulder that you put in your opponent's solar plexus during a really good shoulder check.\n\n- Lack of teeth.  Birds have lost their heavy jaws full of teeth in favour of lighter keratinous beaks.  They have replaced much of the grinding function with a gizzard filled with easily replaced stones, thus achieving an efficient method of processing food with little biological cost to themselves.\n\n- Forelimbs modified into wings.  This one's pretty obvious.  Chickens have the same arm bones we do, but they're stretched out and fused in various locations to form a wing.  The thumb forms a small wing called the alar that acts almost like the flaps on an airplane wing to control low speed stalls and maneuverability.\n\n- Feathers.  Lightweight, keratinous structures designed to catch and funnel air in such as way as to make flight possible, and they can also act as a thermoregulatory structure to help maintain the high metabolism required for powered flight.  This isn't really a skeletal adaptation, but traces of where feathers attach can be seen on some of the wing bones.\n\n- Pygidium.  The tail of most birds has been reduced to a small nub.  This nub supports the tail feathers (which help maintain flight control with minimal weight), as well as the oil gland used to maintain the hygiene of feathers.  In a cooked chicken, the pygidium is often called the Pope's nose.\n\n- Pelvis.  The long shelf of the bird pelvis provides attachment for the muscles that control tail feather movement, as well as providing support and structure for bipedalism, which is what allows the bird to use its forelimbs for a different mode of locomotion.\n\nThere are probably many more, but that's what I can come up with off the top of my head.
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Turkeys have a fleshy growth at the base of their beak called a snood; it's long in males, hanging over the beak (apparently some humans will grow these). Turkeys also have a wattle - a fleshy, red or blue, hunk of skin hanging from the neck or throat. There are also red or blue fleshy bumps of tissue over the head and neck called caruncles. Males have a tuft of bristly feathers at their breast called a beard. I imagine it's all for courtship, etc. - a big tom in full display is quit a sight!\n\nCheck out the picture - it's either a tom turkey or an alien - we're not sure yet...
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The chicken came first