Giant Turkey Flies Overhead and is Chased

Turkeys are a bird that is most often associated with Thanksgiving or any holiday dinner. They are large birds that give good meat, and are a staple of farmyards, hobbling alongside their fowl counterparts, chickens and ducks.Show more

The turkey in this video lives on a small farm in rural Nova Scotia, and as the largest of the birds around him, fancies himself king of the flock. He will strut his stuff amongst the chickens, and often sits atop the coop gobbling at all the other birds around.

A turkey’s gobble is an iconic sound, one known by most children along with the moo of a cow or the meow of a cat. The gobble of this turkey is particularly loud, and has, on multiple occasions, disturbed neighbours doors down with his cacophony when he gets going.

The turkey in this video is waddling around the mesh on the top of the chicken enclosure, having flown up there where no chicken can touch him. Worried about him tearing the mesh, the local farmer gives the turkey clear directions to get down, in a somewhat comical manner pointing for the turkey to get down like a dog who might follow commands. When the turkey flies to the front of the enclosure, what we don’t see is that the farmer has prodded the turkey in the back with a stick, a slight nudge to move him forward.

Turkeys are large birds, and when the turkey in this video comes to roost briefly at the front of the enclosure, we see exactly how big this bird is. To makes his size more magnificent, he jumps from his roost, spreading his wings and flying to the ground, in a visual display of his intricate plumage.

At the end the turkey is corralled into his pen, chased with a stick in a comical manner, dodging left and right before escaping into his pen to strut again amongst the lowly chickens.