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Old 11-25-2010, 09:32 AM
 
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Ooooo, I see an episode of Bossanova brewing. Everyone has to go visit the turkeys to make sure they get enough mental stimulation!
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Old 11-25-2010, 10:45 AM
 
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Let's not confuse the American Wild Turkey with the Butterballs in the freezer case...they are totally different animals. Commercial turkeys are bred in corporate laboratories strictly for fast growth and other characteristics people expect on their table.

On the other hand, the American Wild Turkey is an extremely smart and agile game bird. Ben Franklin held them in such esteem that he proposed that the Wild Turkey be our national bird. No creature survives for millions of years if they drown when they look up at the rain...LOL. Of course Butterball turkeys couldn't survive in the wild, they would never have occurred in nature in the first place.

Everyone should try wild turkey at least once....it's different for sure....all dark meat (even the breasts), and much stronger flavor. There's a hunting club near me on the eastern shore that has been after a SINGLE old Tom for years! Numerous skilled hunters after one bird and they haven't got him yet.

Yep, he's a dumb ole bird alright....probably can't read.
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Old 11-25-2010, 11:12 AM
 
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Ooooo, I see an episode of Bossanova brewing. Everyone has to go visit the turkeys to make sure they get enough mental stimulation!
Maybe we should arrange a group visit!
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Old 11-25-2010, 11:42 PM
 
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I feel so guilty. I've been to Frying Pan Park so many times, and not once did I ever bring the turkey a book.
You are cracking me up! Perhaps we could start a book drive for them, along with some crossword puzzles and suduko books. Maybe a weekly math tutor and piano lessons too.
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Old 11-26-2010, 04:57 AM
 
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You are cracking me up! Perhaps we could start a book drive for them, along with some crossword puzzles and suduko books. Maybe a weekly math tutor and piano lessons too.
Yes, all of us on here should have to go up there and read them a bedtime story to keep them entertained! Those poor poor bored turkeys! Saved from the dinner table only to be bored to death and face a miserable boring life!

Actually, the image of a turkey playing piano cracks me up!
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Old 11-26-2010, 05:36 AM
 
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Actually, the image of a turkey playing piano cracks me up!
If you give a turkey piano lessons, are you allowed to teach him "Turkey In The Straw"? Or would that be considered animal cruelty?
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Old 11-26-2010, 05:39 AM
 
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It's too bad the turkeys are only a few years old. If they were over 16 they could have a city-data account. Now that would be mentally stimulating!
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Old 11-26-2010, 12:50 PM
 
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If you give a turkey piano lessons, are you allowed to teach him "Turkey In The Straw"? Or would that be considered animal cruelty?
That's too funny! I'd say borderline animal cruelty! They need mental stimulation, but not of the cruel kind!
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Old 11-26-2010, 12:51 PM
 
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It's too bad the turkeys are only a few years old. If they were over 16 they could have a city-data account. Now that would be mentally stimulating!
But then we'd have to set up their own subforum for them to talk in turkey language! Although, maybe turkey years are like dog years - turkeys don't live that long do they? So in that case they already are over 16 probably!
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