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They also make one heck of a racket when you step on one nesting hidden
in tall grass. So does Patty when she's the one who steps on it. :-) Between the two of them they made more racket than a trash can full of empty beer cans rolling down a rocky slope. JHBennett wrote: "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." - Arthur Carlson I heard that Gordon Jump died, just recently. Wild turkeys can fly, BTW. Cheers, Jack |
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"Magic Mood Jeep©" wrote in message news:QMKcb.579064$Ho3.107254@sccrnsc03... but not the domestic ones that the US commonly buys at the grocery for their annual Thanksgiving Dinner. Very true. I knew a turkey farmer and, according to him, the results of selective breeding for holiday meals is a bird so stupid it cannot survive on it's own. The shadow of an aircraft will send them into a panic, where they will rush against a fence, trying to get away from the *giant hawk* and crush many to death. They also had to round them up, getting them into shelter, whenever a storm hit. They would just sit against the fence and freeze to death, with a warm barn a few feet away. Cheers, Jack |
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"David Yehudah" wrote in message ... They also make one heck of a racket when you step on one nesting hidden in tall grass. So does Patty when she's the one who steps on it. :-) Between the two of them they made more racket than a trash can full of empty beer cans rolling down a rocky slope. WOW! Jack |
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Hi, Evelyn
They don't have to clip the wings of birds raised fro the table; they're too fat to fly, that being a side effect of having been especially bred for heft. EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote: "Magic Mood Jeep©" wrote: but not the domestic ones that the US commonly buys at the grocery for their annual Thanksgiving Dinner. Don't they clip the wings of "factory-farmed" fowl so they can't? I thought the only truly "flightless" birds were penguins, ostriches and emu. -- The ONE and ONLY lefthanded-pathetic-paranoid-psychotic-sarcastic-wiseass-ditzy former-blonde in Bloomington! (And proud of it, too)© http://www.geocities.com/the_magic_mood_jeep/ http://community.webshots.com/user/mgcmdjeep "JHBennett" wrote in message ... "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." - Arthur Carlson I heard that Gordon Jump died, just recently. Wild turkeys can fly, BTW. Cheers, Jack |
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"JHBennett" wrote in message
... "Magic Mood Jeep©" wrote in message news:QMKcb.579064$Ho3.107254@sccrnsc03... but not the domestic ones that the US commonly buys at the grocery for their annual Thanksgiving Dinner. Very true. I knew a turkey farmer and, according to him, the results of selective breeding for holiday meals is a bird so stupid it cannot survive on it's own. The shadow of an aircraft will send them into a panic, where they will rush against a fence, trying to get away from the *giant hawk* and crush many to death. They also had to round them up, getting them into shelter, whenever a storm hit. They would just sit against the fence and freeze to death, with a warm barn a few feet away. Cheers, Jack I'm quite sure the domestic variety could not fly even withour wing clipping. Far to much breast to wing ratio. And penned to close for a good take off in any case. A friend who used to raise them said they are so stupid that if you aren't careful in the rain they will stand looking up into the rain with their beaks open and literally drown. Jo |
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On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:08:38 -0700, "Jo Firey"
wrote: "JHBennett" wrote in message ... "Magic Mood Jeep©" wrote in message news:QMKcb.579064$Ho3.107254@sccrnsc03... but not the domestic ones that the US commonly buys at the grocery for their annual Thanksgiving Dinner. Very true. I knew a turkey farmer and, according to him, the results of selective breeding for holiday meals is a bird so stupid it cannot survive on it's own. The shadow of an aircraft will send them into a panic, where they will rush against a fence, trying to get away from the *giant hawk* and crush many to death. They also had to round them up, getting them into shelter, whenever a storm hit. They would just sit against the fence and freeze to death, with a warm barn a few feet away. Cheers, Jack I'm quite sure the domestic variety could not fly even withour wing clipping. Far to much breast to wing ratio. And penned to close for a good take off in any case. A friend who used to raise them said they are so stupid that if you aren't careful in the rain they will stand looking up into the rain with their beaks open and literally drown. Jo I've heard the same thing about looking up to see what was tapping them on the head and drowning. Wasn't it Ben Franklin that back when a discussion was going on about a establishing a bird as a national symbol that suggested the turkey instead of the bald eagle? Seems pretty sad to me ;-(( Another example of how we humans have taken another species and corrupted it by breeding into a nonviable form that can't survive on its own. When you see a wild turkey, then look at a farm turkey, it's hard to believe they're related |
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