a friend on a e-mail list i'm on posted the following:

So I'm chopping up the turkey giblets to put into the gravy this
afternoon, and when I go to cut the heart in half, the knife goes
clunk.

Clunk?

I poke at the heart with the point of the knife, and what do I find
but
an honest to god rock between the outside skin and one of top
chambers.

How did it get there? And if it was there when the turkey was
slaughtered, how did the turkey live to attain a dressed weight of
15.51 pounds?

The most logical explanation is that the rock somehow got jammed into
the heart during processing--but the way the heart seemed to have
grown
around it, I don't know.

Anybody have any ideas?

http://www.amyx.org/nonce/turkeystone.jpg

someone suggested that 'it was the gizzard, not the heart' and said
they'd like to see a picture. he replied:

I'd be happy to oblige if the both the heart and the gizzard were not
in little pieces in the gravy, but I assure you it was not the
gizzard. That I would have understood, even if the rock was a little
big for gizzard material.

The gizzard in this turkey, like all the commercial ones, was split
open, with the grit removed.

the pointer above is to a picture of the stone, about the size of the
quarter, which seems kinda big for the gizzard to me, too, and awfully
round. i said perhaps they sold him an ostrich by mistake.

anyhow, i told him i thought i remembered there were some ex-turkey
farmers here, and would post his question for y'all to ponder. grist
for the mill, as it were.

your poultry pal,
blake

blake murphy > wrote:

>a friend on a e-mail list i'm on posted the following:

>So I'm chopping up the turkey giblets to put into the gravy this
>afternoon, and when I go to cut the heart in half, the knife goes
>clunk.
>
>Clunk?

>I poke at the heart with the point of the knife, and what do I find
>but
>an honest to god rock between the outside skin and one of top
>chambers.

>How did it get there?

Ask on the veterinarian newsgroup if this is possible.

I'm thinking it might be an accretion (sp?) of calcium rather
than a rock.

Steve

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:58:19 +0000 (UTC),
(Steve Pope) wrote:

>blake murphy > wrote:
>
>>a friend on a e-mail list i'm on posted the following:
>
>>So I'm chopping up the turkey giblets to put into the gravy this
>>afternoon, and when I go to cut the heart in half, the knife goes
>>clunk.
>>
>>Clunk?
>
>>I poke at the heart with the point of the knife, and what do I find
>>but
>>an honest to god rock between the outside skin and one of top
>>chambers.
>
>>How did it get there?
>
>Ask on the veterinarian newsgroup if this is possible.
>

for some reason, i first read this as 'vegetarian newgroup.'

>I'm thinking it might be an accretion (sp?) of calcium rather
>than a rock.
>
>Steve

did you look at the pic? looks like a sho-nuff rock to me.

your pal,
blake

blake murphy wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:58:19 +0000 (UTC),
> (Steve Pope) wrote:
>
>>blake murphy > wrote:
>>
>>>a friend on a e-mail list i'm on posted the following:
>>
>>>So I'm chopping up the turkey giblets to put into the gravy this
>>>afternoon, and when I go to cut the heart in half, the knife goes
>>>clunk.
>>>
>>>Clunk?
>>
>>>I poke at the heart with the point of the knife, and what do I find
>>>but
>>>an honest to god rock between the outside skin and one of top
>>>chambers.
>>
>>>How did it get there?
>>
>>Ask on the veterinarian newsgroup if this is possible.
>>
>
> for some reason, i first read this as 'vegetarian newgroup.'

And the Subject header keeps reminding me of a country song. Lines from
the chorus which would be:

She's a hard-hearted turkey
In love with a good-timin' man

(Real first line: "She's a good-hearted woman".)


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