McCook also crossed two heritage chicken breeds, the American Bresse and the Le Grand, into a more robust hybrid he dubbed the Glory Land. McCook's turkeys are Bourbon Reds, one of the rarest ...

Amid the hustle of commercial turkey farming across the nation, a quieter tradition thrives in Montana’s heritage turkey ...

Let's start with heirloom, which refers to an old-world breed of turkey. “Essentially the same turkey that the pilgrims ate on the first Thanksgiving,” Regalado said. Heirloom turkeys are ...

Because the farming process is more efficient, modern turkey meat tends to be cheaper (albeit blander) than meat from ...

Peep!'" Feeling something like a woman in labor, I raced downtown to retrieve my babies — turkey poults, just a day old, shipped from a hatchery specializing in heirloom breeds. You see ...

Let's start with heirloom, which refers to an old-world breed of turkey. “Essentially the same turkey that the pilgrims ate on the first Thanksgiving,” Regalado said. Heirloom turkeys are ...

Elwood Stock is one of a few farms in the country growing organic, heritage-breed turkeys. They're the barely domesticated cousins of wild turkeys. The Narragansett is the oldest-known American ...

Breeds like bronzes, Narragansetts, bourbon reds and black turkeys were common back then. But with the advent of factory farming creating genetically mutated turkeys cheap and quick for the table, ...

Happy Thanksgiving! Is it just me or doesn’t it seem like 2024 has flown by? How can it be the end of November already? As you read ...