Toms

Or will pecking order force certain toms and jakes to choose other roost sites? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Males, called toms, have distinctive spurs on their legs and beards - tufts of modified feathers - growing out of their chests. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Can you tell how unimpressed the female turkey is with the two "toms"? ❋ DNLee (2008)

I am on the third floor and that means less cockroaches and mosquitos and less peeping toms which is the entire country. ❋ Maya Chalee (2006)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Last year, the toms gobbled their heads off, and strutted right to us almost every time. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Called a group of 9 toms and jakes in w/the 2 reed last weekend, worked great. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I had stopped two watch two deer feed when I saw three toms emerge from the tree line, about 40 yards away. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The came charging in and I popped to toms as fast as could. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Another Outspoken Female (2009)

Multiple 2-year-olds and plenty of older toms around. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Its an awesome call, I have not heard so much vocalization from toms with any other call. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From top: Taupe Baby Kurta Set, $25, dagmardaley.com ; Tiny TOMS Navy Purple Tie Dye, $29, toms.com ❋ Sameer Reddy (2011)