Well, perhaps you think it's sad, Frank, bur I'm not so sure. When I was young. I spent a lot of time at my maternal grandparents' home, as both my parents worked. My grandfather had a small butcher shop (in addition to his gas station on the other side of town. Since his ethnic customer base was wary of chickens that were already dead, he had some chicken coop, and took the eggs and the live chickens to the store. I was hired, for a few cents, to gather eggs from the coops.
At Thanksgiving and Christmas, everyone wanted turkeys, instead of chickens. My grandfather was shocked by how much he had to pay for the Turkeys, and since his customers were people of very modest means, how little profit he could make on the turkeys he purchase. So, one year, when I was 8 or 9, he decides to raise his own turkeys. WHAT A MISTAKE! They are the dumbest, dirtiest, nastiest critters I have ever encountered. I refused to go into their pen to feed them after the first 3 or 4 attempts, which left me with scratches, bite marks and turkey shit all over my arms and legs. Thank God they couldn't fly; they surely would have pecked my eyes out. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:26 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Wild turkeys are the same species as domesticated turkeys. However, our taste > for breast meat has encouraged farmers to selectively breed turkeys to be > huge. In some cases they actually have problems walking and if they fall over > they can't get up without assistance. > > It goes without saying that due to all that extra meat on their bones they > can't fly. > > Kind of sad... > > Cheers, > frank > > --- Original Message --- > > From: [email protected] > Sent: April 26, 2013 4/26/13 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: PESO: Roosting Turkey > > Lovely shot! > > I still think it's weird turkeys sleep in trees, they look like too heavy > to fly. But a condo development I formerly lived in had a lot of turkeys > and a lot of oaks, and that is where they stayed at night. It looked odd. > > Marnie aka Doe :-) > > In a message dated 4/24/2013 6:26:36 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > A beautiful moon across the river this evening. Nicely silhouettes the > turkey roosting in the tree beside our house. > > http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p155717848/h5811daa8#h5cd71a0a > > stan > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
