toms

Or will pecking order force certain toms and jakes to choose other roost sites?

Turkey winter flocks, and roost site changes?? 2009

Males, called toms, have distinctive spurs on their legs and beards - tufts of modified feathers - growing out of their chests.

SplicedFeed 2010

Can you tell how unimpressed the female turkey is with the two "toms"?

Wordless Wednesday: Happy Thanksgiving DNLee 2008

Their description of what the job entailed, from extracting semen from the "toms" to working as "breakers" -- i.e., grabbing panicked hens so the inseminator can inject them -- is gruesome.

Kerry Trueman: Time To Mothball The Butterball! 2008

I am on the third floor and that means less cockroaches and mosquitos and less peeping toms which is the entire country.

Archive 2006-01-01 Maya Chalee 2006

I am on the third floor and that means less cockroaches and mosquitos and less peeping toms which is the entire country.

Finally! Maya Chalee 2006

Their description of what the job entailed, from extracting semen from the "toms" to working as "breakers" -- i.e., grabbing panicked hens so the inseminator can inject them -- is gruesome.

The Latest on Air America 2008

Their description of what the job entailed, from extracting semen from the "toms" to working as "breakers" -- i.e., grabbing panicked hens so the inseminator can inject them -- is gruesome.

The Latest on Air America 2008

And the easiest way to get the in-season male Wild Turkeys (called "toms") to within close range, according to Ryan Mathis, "is the box call.

The Union Democrat, Sonora, CA News, Sports, & Weather 2009

I think most of us in Melbourne are feeling so helpless to do anything of any real value for all these people, that putting a word out on the digital tom-toms at least gives us some kind of purpose.

putting it out there Another Outspoken Female 2009