Turkeys are much more interesting than their spot on the dinner table suggests. Wild turkeys can fly and run fast, and their heads change color when they get excited. These riddles cover turkey anatomy, history and some well-loved Thanksgiving jokes.
Every riddle has a different answer, so you will meet poults and snoods, Benjamin Franklin and the reason this American bird shares its name with a country.
Easy Turkey Riddles for Kids
- I gobble, I fan out my tail feathers and I am famous at Thanksgiving. What am I? 👉 A turkey
- I am a male turkey. What am I called? 👉 A tom
- I am a female turkey. What am I called? 👉 A hen
- I am a baby turkey. What am I called? 👉 A poult
- I am the red, wrinkly skin that hangs under a turkey’s beak. What am I? 👉 A wattle
- I am the floppy flap of skin that dangles over a turkey’s beak. What am I? 👉 A snood
- I am the loud sound a male turkey makes to call hens. What am I? 👉 A gobble
- I am the big autumn holiday in the United States when many families roast a turkey. What am I? 👉 Thanksgiving
- I am a forked bone that two people pull apart to make a wish. What am I? 👉 The wishbone
- I am a mix of bread, herbs and onions cooked inside or beside the turkey. What am I? 👉 Stuffing
- I am a tangy red sauce made from berries and served with turkey. What am I? 👉 Cranberry sauce
- I am the turkey leg that kids love to hold and munch. What am I? 👉 A drumstick
Turkey Fact Riddles
These riddles are based on real facts about turkeys. The note after each answer explains it.
- Wild turkeys can do this, but most farm turkeys are too heavy to. What is it? 👉 Fly (wild turkeys fly short distances and roost in trees at night)
- A wild turkey can run about this fast: 5, 15 or 40 km/h? 👉 About 40 km/h
- I am the Founding Father who wrote that the turkey was a more respectable bird than the bald eagle. Who am I? 👉 Benjamin Franklin
- When a male turkey gets excited, its head can turn these three colors. What are they? 👉 Red, white and blue
- I am the continent where turkeys first lived in the wild. What am I? 👉 North America
- Every November, the US president takes part in this event and spares a turkey from the dinner table. What is it? 👉 The turkey pardon
- A turkey has about this many feathers: 50, 500 or 5,000? 👉 About 5,000
- I am a name for a group of turkeys. What am I? 👉 A rafter (or a flock)
- Experts can tell a male turkey from a female by the shape of these: J-shaped or spiral. What are they? 👉 Its droppings
- The English named this bird by mistake, mixing it up with a guinea fowl that was traded through me. What am I? 👉 The country of Turkey (Türkiye)
Funny Turkey Riddles
- Why did the turkey cross the road? 👉 It was the chicken’s day off
- What do you call a turkey on the day after Thanksgiving? 👉 Lucky
- Why should you never teach a turkey to talk? 👉 It would use fowl language
- What is a turkey’s favorite dessert? 👉 Peach gobbler
Turkey Brain Teasers
- Three turkey hens each have 4 poults. How many turkeys are there altogether? 👉 15
- A turkey weighs 6 kg and needs about 40 minutes to roast for every kilogram. How long will it take? 👉 4 hours
- A farm has 20 turkeys and 10 cows. How many legs are there in total? 👉 80
- A tom gobbles once every 5 minutes. How many times does he gobble in an hour? 👉 12
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