Some of the weight is probably from everyone feeding the hell out of them. To me the feet and legs are the give away. Tame turkeys have always had big pink feet and legs and that is mostly what you have now. Not sure exactly, but 15-20 yrs ago, you never seen that at all. You have to admit, there is something to it. Going from 15 lb birds to 25 lb birds. Damn near doubling in weight and size of feet. You have to think about this also, back 15-20 even 25 yrs ago, they were even farming a whole lot more back then. People back in the day didn’t cut hardwoods and now they cut the hell out of them. So that being said there was more to eat back then than know. That’s just my opinion. Talk to the old timers and you will get educated. It’s all prospect, but there is something to it. If I call up a 40 pounder, I’ll kill him and be proud that I got him.

Last edited by TEM; 04/18/18 07:59 AM.