🐔 Chicken vs Wild turkey 🦃
Here are the chicken and the wild turkey side by side.
Chicken: no checked size yet, so it isn't drawn.
| Row | 🐔 Chicken | 🦃 Wild turkey |
|---|---|---|
| Top speed We don't have a checked number for the chicken yet. | no checked number yet | 54 mph87 km/h1 |
| Weight We don't have a checked number for the chicken yet. | no checked number yet | 15 to 25 lb6.8 to 11 kg1 |
| Lives The chicken usually lives about twice as long as the wild turkey. | 5 to 10 years5 to 10 years2 | 3 to 5 years3 to 5 years1 |
| Eats Both eat plants and animals. | seeds, grain, bugs and greens | acorns, nuts, seeds, berries and insects |
| Lives in They live in different kinds of places, so they would hardly ever meet. | farms and backyards all over the world | forests and woodland edges across much of North America |
Which one? Chicken or wild turkey
🏁 Who would win the race?
We don't have a checked top speed for the chicken yet, so there is no race.
We only race. Real animals mostly avoid each other. A race is the only fair contest: who reaches the tree first, by top speed.
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The link carries only the two animals’ names: peabody.kids/animals/compare/chicken-vs-wild-turkey
Where these numbers come from
- Smithsonian's National Zoo, checked 30 October 2026.
- National Park Service, Oxon Hill Farm: chickens, checked 31 October 2026.