Turkey Prices for Thanksgiving

[Bird]

I was in the Denton Walmart this morning and noticed that they had Riverside brand whole "young turkeys" for $.40 a pound; liimit of 2 per customer. I wasn't sure we had enough room in the freezer, so I waited until I got home and found we did have room for them. So I went to the Hickory Creek Walmart since it was closer. They had the same thing except theirs were all in the 18-24 pound size. If I were going to cook it in the oven, that would be OK, but for frying, I prefer 12-13 pound sizes. So I went back to Denton and got two just under 13 pounds each; total price $10.15 for the two.

I may be wrong, but I don't remember seeing them that cheap for quite some time.

 

[scott_vt]

So I went back to Denton and got two just under 13 pounds each; total price $10.15 for the two.

I may be wrong, but I don't remember seeing them that cheap for quite some time.

Good Evenin Bird,
Wow that is cheap !

26 lbs of turkey for $10.15, I would say thats a steal !

Im sure I will hear from Kathleen what the going price around here is shortly !

Enjoy, the deep fryer sounds like a great idea !

 

[ultrarunner]

At those prices it's hardly worth the effort to get one of the wild ones that come through the yard every afternoon... they are some fine looking birds...

 

[archerm3]

Turkey prices way down, hence the reason they closed the turkey processing plant in my town. Lock stock and barrel sold out, after being closed for about a year. Between my uncle and cousin, we have 4 chest freezers full of turkeys bought for pennies on the dollar.

I wouldn't be surprised to see prices rising again after thanksgiving or later. Many turkey growers shutting down around here upper midwest, my uncle drove the turkeys to the plant from about a 5 state area, now his boss is scrambing trying to find other loads to haul, mostly corn repositioning. Decades of turkey hauling had come to a screeching halt. I don't understand it, it seems that turkey burger has been more prominent in the grocery stores, I would have thought that turkey demand would be outpacing supply, don't know where the extra supply came from.

From what I hear on the news, pork producers are shutting down at an incredibly fast rate here as well.

I remember the time about ten years ago when living in colorado springs where a grocery store had turkeys marked at a dollar a pound, only their computer system was set up wrong and actually charged a dollar per turkey.

 

[Bird]

Many turkey growers shutting down around here upper midwest

I don't understand it either. I don't know how well the turkey burgers, turkey sausage, etc. sell, but personally I tried them but don't care for them. And we normally only buy whole turkeys for Thanksgiving and Christmas because it's too much meat for just the 2 of us.

However, we do sometimes buy the 3 pound boneless "turkey roasts"; kind of expensive, but very tasty when they come from our smoker.

 

[LBrown59]

Good Evenin Bird,
*Wow that is cheap !

26 lbs of turkey for $10.15, I would say thats a steal !

Im sure I will hear from Kathleen what the going price around here is shortly !

Enjoy, the deep fryer sounds like a great idea !

*Yeah : Now Birds talkin Turkey .

Just couldn't resist

 

[randy41]

I got a range raised turkey from a local producer for $2.45/lb. picked it up the day it was slaughtered and processed and stuck it in the freezer. about 14 lbs.

 

[Bird]

I got a range raised turkey from a local producer for $2.45/lb. picked it up the day it was slaughtered and processed and stuck it in the freezer. about 14 lbs.

I didn't know they were that expensive anywhere. Unless of course they were already smoked and ready to eat.

 

[Western]

They always "just show" up brown and tasty on Thanksgiving and Christmas at our house.

I guess when the price gets to high, a chicken will show up and then I'll have to do some investigating.

 

[coffeeman]

They always "just show" up brown and tasty on Thanksgiving and Christmas at our house.
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Sounds like another turkey story to me. Hummm... Maybe I'm thinking of "fish" story???

Coffeeman

 

[RobertN]

Wild tastes better

We have them all over the place, except on our property. With the dogs running around all the time, they do not come around any more(we finally fenced the front of the property a year ago, and let the dogs run the property...)

I have taken about 10 over the years. Sooooooo much tastier than store bought cornfed blandness.

At those prices it's hardly worth the effort to get one of the wild ones that come through the yard every afternoon... they are some fine looking birds...

 

[RobertN]

Bird, you can't be the only "bird" in Texas Go out and get y'all some wild turkey? Guessin you have to get some distance from Dallas/Ft Worth to get to somewhere you could shoot a wild bird?

I was in the Denton Walmart this morning and noticed that they had Riverside brand whole "young turkeys"

 

[Bird]

Bird, you can't be the only "bird" in Texas Go out and get y'all some wild turkey? Guessin you have to get some distance from Dallas/Ft Worth to get to somewhere you could shoot a wild bird?

Robert, a lot of people do hunt the wild turkeys in Texas, although I never have. As far as I know you would have to get at least 40 or 50 miles from Dallas/Ft. Worth to hunt them, although they have supposedly re-introduced them a few years ago to the area below the Lake Lewisille dam, about 12-15 miles from me. I've read that they're doing just fine in that area, but no hunting allowed.

In the 8 years we lived out in the boondocks 60 miles south of Dallas, I only actually saw one wild turkey. And I don't believe I've ever eaten any wild turkey.

I don't think I've ever even drank any Wild Turkey.

 

[keegs]

They always "just show" up brown and tasty on Thanksgiving and Christmas at our house.

I guess when the price gets to high, a chicken will show up and then I'll have to do some investigating.

Hey ..same here ....with the fixins too

 

[jimmyj]

.40 cents a pound, that is crazy cheap! How can they do that? Were the turkeys American or Chinese? I feel worse for the farmers every day...

When we grown them we sell to the neighbors for $3 a pound but they are awesome and way better than from the store.

 

[Bird]

.40 cents a pound, that is crazy cheap! How can they do that? Were the turkeys American or Chinese? I feel worse for the farmers every day...

When we grown them we sell to the neighbors for $3 a pound but they are awesome and way better than from the store.

Well, I had occasion to be in both Walmarts this morning and the $.40 a pound turkeys are gone. They do have just a few of another brand at $.60 a pound, but the Butterball turkeys are $.98 a pound. They had just turkey breasts for $1.42 a pound, and whole Hickory Smoked turkeys for $1.82 a pound. I'm pretty sure the $.40 ones were just a brief promotional thing.

But I'll agree with you that I don't see how the farmers can raise and sell the turkeys and make any profit.

And you made me a little curious about where the Riverside brand turkeys come from and all I can find is that they are "Distributed by Cargill, Wichita, KS"

 

[jimmyj]

A bit OT but darn it, why can't the law make people say exactly where stuff is from. This "distributed by"... business is baloney.

 

[ultrarunner]

Bird, you can't be the only "bird" in Texas Go out and get y'all some wild turkey? Guessin you have to get some distance from Dallas/Ft Worth to get to somewhere you could shoot a wild bird?

We have oodles of wild turkey roaming the East Bay Hills in and around Oakland... there is really a lot of wild animals... raccoons, grey and red foxes... lots of deer... etc...

One of my co-workers regularly hunts just outside the city limit...

 

[Western]

Robert, a lot of people do hunt the wild turkeys in Texas, although I never have. As far as I know you would have to get at least 40 or 50 miles from Dallas/Ft. Worth to hunt them, although they have supposedly re-introduced them a few years ago to the area below the Lake Lewisille dam, about 12-15 miles from me. I've read that they're doing just fine in that area, but no hunting allowed.

In the 8 years we lived out in the boondocks 60 miles south of Dallas, I only actually saw one wild turkey. And I don't believe I've ever eaten any wild turkey.

I don't think I've ever even drank any Wild Turkey.

Bird, enough of the liquid Wild Turkey and you wouldn't care what you paid for the turkey

 

[txdon]

Bird the price that I heard from my wife, who heard it from my mother, who heard from my aunt, said that the turkeys at HEB in Bastrop were 40 cents a pound.