45 Bates Road • Fort Deposit, AL 36032

Farm: (334) 227-4505
Turkey House Restaurant: (334) 382-6123
To Place an Order: (888) 249-4505
Fax: (334) 227-4386
Email: sales@batesturkey.com

 

Bates Turkey Farm “Hatched” (literally) in June of 1923. That’s over 80 years we’ve been in the turkey business. It began the day my great aunt, Mamie Bates, gave my daddy nine turkey eggs as a wedding present!

All our Turkey’s are “Free Range Turkey’s” grown right here in Alabama the old fashion way.

The secret of the succulent meat of Bates turkeys is our entire flocks feast on whole grains that are richest in nutrients, and are grown without the aid of today’s powerful drugs. We feed our turkeys only all vegetable feed. We pay a little more for our feed, but we never use any feed with animal fats. Our turkeys are grown to their full-breasted best, in a stress free environment in the cool shade of pecan groves by the shores of a small lake.



You can’t start too young! This is our 5th Generation of Bates coming into the turkey farm. One day, not too soon I hope, I’ll be passing on the same heritage and turkey secrets my grandmother gave to me.