"Heavy_Smoker" > wrote:
> p-nut said
>
> > This was all done during "load out" , which means that a 40+lb
> > bird in MO heat has heart attacks.
> > He usually cuts out the breast and legs for me and throws into a
> > cooler of ice.
> > The other 11,000 birds goes to the plant to become tv dinners or
> > whatever sliced up.
> > Butterball only sells about 25lb birds whole.
>
> My brothers in-laws raised turkeys. He helped out sometimes. He said
> turkeys are the stupidest animals he has even seen. Put one behind a
> 20' wide fence, open on both ends, with food/water on the other side,
> and he'll starve to death before he figures it out. True?
>
> They are tasty *******s though.

Me and my uncle blasted out a rock that was in the way of a road we were
building, back when I was 12 or so. 1,000 turkeys at a farm down the road
died of heart attacks!

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