To tell if you're working out at a proper intensity, use the talk test while you exercise. Your workout should be intense enough to make you breathe deeply and to make you feel a little winded. But, you should still be able to carry on a conversation while you exercise. If you don't have enough breath to get the words out, you're working too hard.
By three weeks juvenile flight feathers will be fully emerged. At this time you will know that you have passed one of the major points in a young turkeyâs life. The next period of concern when raising turkey poults is when they reach eight weeks and are first introduced to pasture.
Most of the turkey we eat is from the Broad Breasted White breed. Commercial producers prefer white turkeys because their feathers don't leave unattractive dark pigment after they have been plucked. Domesticated turkeys are bred to have more breast meat, meatier thighs and white feathers. White feathers are preferred so that, when plucked, they leave no unsightly pigment spots under the skin. Turkeys have 3,500 feathers at maturity. Sesame Street's Big Bird costume is made of turkey feathers.