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Cheri[_3_]

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> On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 16:10:28 -0700, "Cheri" >
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>>> On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 09:43:58 -0400, Dave Smith
>>> > wrote:
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>>>>On 2015-09-22 8:56 AM, wrote:
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>>>>>> Why? If it had been raised for food, at least you were not wasting
>>>>>> his
>>>>>> life
>>>>>> and death.
>>>>>
>>>>> Granted but completely two faced in this, I don't want to know the
>>>>> animal I am eating I said to myself at least Moo had a wonderful
>>>>> life while it lasted, but I still couldn't. Yeah they all laughed at
>>>>> me and divided up my steak between them
>>>>
>>>>Our former next door neighbours had free range chickens for a couple
>>>>years. The girls used to come over to our yard and would often show up
>>>>around dinner time. First one would appear, then another and there
>>>>would soon be a dozen or more. One day the neighbour gave us a couple
>>>>dressed birds and that night I was cooking one of them when the hens
>>>>made their rounds. I guess they didn't realize that the aroma coming
>>>>from the gas grill was one of their sisters being cooked.
>>>>
>>> Chickens are inclined to be cannabalistic. When we lived on a poultry
>>> farm if one of the birds got it's leg caught or was disabled in some
>>> way, the rest would peck and eat it right away
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>>Truly, turkeys the same, they would gang up on one that was pecked and had
>>a
>>drop of blood or disability and tear at it. The toms dancing around with
>>their tails fanned even.
>>
>>Cheri
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> The farmer used to do turkeys for Xmas and yes, they had bad habits
> too. Back then, early 60s, as the time wound down to Xmas I used to
> often help with plucking etc. (they had a plucking machine but some
> of the more downy feathers didn't get pulled with that) it became
> quite hectic to get all birds done but I was 'sheltered' from the
> killing.

My parents used to let us older kids have a few turkeys around the holidays,
we would kill, pluck etc., and sell them to our neighbors for Christmas
money. That was a long time ago though, and I don't care to do it now,
probably not even legal.

Cheri