By January, farmers are ordering turkeys from the hatchery and picking up the poults, when they are just hours old in June. They raise just over 9,000 turkeys and start processing them in November.

9 months before birth: Poultry icon Frank Perdue and his wife....well, you can imagine. Birth Birth: "Thomas Turkey" hatches from one of the thousands of eggs in the hatchery. Birth: We aren't ...