TURKEYS IN AUSTRALIA

SADLY FOR YOUNG TURKEYS, CHRISTMAS IS NOT A TIME OF PEACE AND GOOD WILL.

Turkeys are very social and sensitive birds. Young turkeys in factory farms, never know their parents, they are hatched in incubators ,not under their mothers’ warm wings They therefore miss out on learning from their mothers, upon whom, in nature, they are dependant. The chicks panic and shriek in distress. In commercial factory farms they are sexed, de-beaked and de-toed all without pain relief. They are de-toed to prevent them damaging each other in the frustration of confinement of factory farms, therefore downgrading their carcasses. They also have their snoods (the fleshy protuberance that hangs over their beaks) sliced off.

Mother turkeys are extremely maternal birds and will fiercely protect their babies normally. They are never given that opportunity, turkey mothers are breeding machines in this cruel industry.