You turkeys!

Hello,

I am reading a book named Frogs and Princes by Grinder and Bandlers. Could anyone me tell me what "You turkeys" means in the following snippet?

I am not sure if "turkey" implies anything in English or has other connotation. I feel the authors were telling the readers how one of them insulted those pyschologists as "turkeys" with a story and quote of Erickson.

Do the authors say those psychologists are as noisy as turkeys? Thanks!

PS. I don't know why I got a dislike. I am aking what I read in a book. This is a language question. Please don't go personal. I don't intend to offend anyone.

People have almost no consciousness of any meta-levels if you distract them with content. Once at a conference I talked to a large group of psychologists who were pretty stuffy and asked a lot of dumb questions. I told them about quotes as a pattern. Then I said for example—I even told them what I was doing—Milton Erickson once told me a story about a time he stayed at a turkey farm, and the turkeys made a lot of noise and kept him awake at night. He didn't know what to do. So finally one night he walked outside—and I faced all those psychologists out there—and he realized he was surrounded by turkeys, hundreds of turkeys everywhere. Turkeys here, and turkeys there, and turkeys all over the place. And he looked at them and he said " You turkeys".

There were a couple of people there who knew what I was doing and they absolutely cracked up. I stood on the stage in front of these people who were paying me a fortune and I went" You turkeys!" They didn't know what I was doing. They all sat there nodding seriously. If you are congruent, they will never know. If you feed people interesting content, you can experiment with any pattern.