Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission. Breeding season for the dirty birds typically spans late spring and early summer, Modern Farmer reported. At this point, the older males — known as gobblers which is coincidentally slang for a freaky form of fellatio — focus on nothing besides getting jiggy with it. If impressed with the total package, the female turkey — known as the hen — will sit down in the dirt, inviting her feathery bedfellow to climb aboard. This is where things get interesting.
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But a deeper dive into the mating rituals and breeding characteristics of the turkey animal reveals some weird, interesting things. First of all, we have to make a distinction between the domesticated turkey and the wild turkey: though the two are technically the same species Meleagris gallopavo , they differ quite a bit in size, behavior, and in the way they mate. The wild turkey is easiest to explain. Very young turkeys are known as chicks or poults, and juveniles are, adorably, either jakes males or jennies females. Breeding season for wild turkeys typically occurs in the late spring and early summer, from around mid-March until June. At this point, the males begin focusing on basically nothing besides sex. Fun side note story: Our photographer Aliza Eliazarov had a tricky time trying to shoot shoot heritage turkeys for our Winter cover story because it was during their mating season. Turkeys are flock animals, which brings along a lot of behavioral dynamics; the early part of the breeding season is really mostly for the males to strut at each other, occasionally fighting, to establish the dominant male in any given flock.
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