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[davidc]

There was a wild turkey on my map, and, surprisingly, I killed it with a club. I say surprisingly because I thought turkeys were faster than dwarves, but somehow he managed to kill it.

Anyways, it's within 20-30 tiles of my butcher shop, and I set the butcher shop to butcher a dead animal, but nothing is happening.

It's a turkey and therefore tamable and I believe I read somewhere that that made it into something that couldn't be butchered?

[PatrikLundell]

No, TAME creatures killed by means other than butchering cannot be butchered, but wild members of domesticated species are handled just like other wild creatures. My guess is that you haven't changed the default setting for corpse recovery, which is to recover only indoors. 'o'ptions-'r'efuse, and then change to collect from outdoors.

[4maskedwolf]

Do turkey's normally give meat when butchered?  There seems to be something in the code where animals that don't provide meat when butchered (or don't provide much, at any rate) aren't butchered by dwarves even when everything is going fine.  Case in point: killed a yack cow close to my butcher's workshop, dwarves butchered it.  Killed a raven, didn't butcher.  Killed a ferret, didn't butcher.  This isn't just a one-time thing either, I've observed it many times.

[FortunaDraken]

Turkeys gives meat if they're big enough, I use 'em as my main meat animal (because I keep missing the chickens laying eggs so my dorfs eat them). It might be a very small turkey.

[BlackFlyme]

Turkeys do indeed give meat. Only animals so small that they would not provide any meat will not be butchered. Though small animals can still be slaughtered, if you have tame ones. Usually won't get much other than a skull, since animals too small for meat are usually also too small for bones or fat.

As mentioned, you should double-check that you have allowed your dwarves to collect refuse that lies outside the fortress. It's an easy thing to overlook.

[Sutremaine]

I've butchered uncountable turkeys and they always give meat.

[4maskedwolf]

I see.  I have never bothered to butcher turkeys before.  Try what they are saying, then.