Bates Turkey Farm is a domestic turkey[1] producer founded in 1923 and based near Fort Deposit, Alabama[2][3][4] (about thirty miles south of Montgomery, in Lowndes County).

[6] The farm purchases poults (baby turkeys) from a hatchery in Oakwood, Ohio.

[4][5] The turkeys are fed a diet of "freshly ground corn, oats and soybean meal, along with some vitamins"[3] and each "needs 70 pounds of grain to reach slaughter size".

[7] It is the supplier of Clyde, a series of turkeys that have been ritually pardoned by the governor of Alabama on Thanksgiving since 1949[1][5][8][9] (Clyde was first pardoned by "Big Jim" Folsom)[8] as well as a frozen turkey, which is eaten as the governor's Thanksgiving meal.

[4] In 1969, Willie Claude "Bill" Bates, Jr. [10] opened his first Bates House of Turkey restaurant in Greenville; two more have followed, each serving an all-turkey menu and having turkey-themed decor.