Omnivores. Turkeys will eat insects, salamanders, small frogs, and plants. Their diet changes seasonally.
Spring: They'll eat nearly any available plant, such as grass shoots; sedges; buds, flowers, and leaves of shrubs and trees; the roots, tubers, and bulbs of perennials; dried fruits; and nuts.
Spring and summer: High-protein foods, such as insects, spiders, centipedes, millipedes, snails, and slugs are critical to their poults. Adults eat those foods, as well as grasses, seeds, salamanders and frogs.
Late summer: Grasshoppers, beetles, crickets, and the fruits and seeds of nearly any plant.
Fall: just about any nut or fruit crop, including acorns, beechnuts, hazelnuts, wild cherries, and grapes; waste grain; insects; salamanders, and frogs.
Winter: Nuts and seeds; grains, including corn; insects; and snails. They'll often feed where deer have pawed through deep snow and in corn fields, especially if manure was spread on the field, and in spring seeps.