We see throughout history what this great bird brings us, we see it in special cartoons on Christmas Eve, movies and docunmentales. In cartoons such as: ziggi.Where we see in a shop of an Italian gentleman, a turkey sales for the Christmas dinner, in the caricature the owner of the shop calls them pavas, and ziggi, from his magical pot takes out the money and he buys them all, in order to free them to all the turkeys. It is a very beautiful Christmas caricature ..
We also heard in the series, very well known and very successful in the world called: El chavo del 8. where we always heard that they talked about GUAJOLOTE, which is another name of the turkey that is known in Mexico, ie the turkey is a bird of much tradition, and of great importance in our diet, since its meat is very healthy and very nutritious for our organism.
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DIFFERENT NAMES OF THE TURKEY IN THE WORLD
In the world this beautiful bird is known by different names, usually to the mecho and the female is given the name simply of turkey, and turkey, and when they are pigeons are called pavito and pavita, names that we also give here in Venezuela our youth when they are adolescents and echones in their way of being, (pavito and pavita). Scientifically the turkey is given the name of MELEAGRIS, name studied by science.
_In our beautiful nation (VENEZUELA) is simply known by the popular name of turkey.
_In Colombia it is given the name of: PISCO.
_In Spain the turkey is known as: PAVIPOLLO.
_In Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Cuba, is known by the same name: GUANAJO.
_In the republic of mexico they are given many names such as: PIPILA, GALLO DE LA TIERRA, COCONO, and the famous GUAJOLOTE.
_In Honduras and El Salvador has the same name of: GUAJOLOTE.
_In the nation of costa rica it is called: CHOMPIPE.
_ And in the industry is named for marketing: DOUBLE BREAST TAPE.
This kind of bird, generally grows in pens, farms and fields, for its size and for being a very nutritious food for humans, since the structure, the high content of its meat and its flavor is of the utmost importance and healthy for our body. In the Hispanic countries many are used in festivities such as Christmas and New Year, and in the English speaking nations in festivals and celebrations as the day of thanksgiving, waiting for the Christmas Eve where they are well tempered at dinner more beautiful of the whole year.
REPRODUCTION
In the reproduction of this bird, the male turkey when it burns makes a kind of sound or song, since it is a sound of seduction to the females, and when the turkey or turkeys is attracted, it raises its feathers like an avanico, and it is where the male turkey gets stuck with the turkey in a state of apathy, and then moves away and disregards the female.
In the form of these birds in their reproduction, the females have only one year, where they can lay 8 to 15 eggs, sometimes it would be very rare, the females could have two eggs in the year, this means that You will have total responsibility for all your chicks or better known poults.
2_The female turkey, once the eggs are laid, she will make a nest in the ground rustically, where she will store the eggs for 28 days, then when the chicks or poults come out, they will be worth it by themselves, eating insects, so that they can start to eat leaves and grains, the first months of the year of their births will be under the wings of their mother, and so they will persecute for a year.
3_ It is estimated that its reproduction began in indigenous peoples of Mexico where their meat was consumed a lot and their feathers were used for their clothes, and from there they spread all over the world.
In 1498 the Spanish conquerors took the turkeys to Europe, and they called it Indian chickens, it was in that continent where they started their reproduction for commercial purposes, which later spread all over the world, and that is that we know this beautiful and delicious bird for our palate thanks to our great GOD YAHWEH ELOHIM. SHALOOM.
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