All Of President Obama’s Pardoned Turkeys Are Dead

US News ^ | November 19, 2013 | Nikki Schwab

[Obadiah]

That’s a great one!

[RichInOC]

Unfortunately, most of the unpardoned ones are still on the payroll.

[Obadiah]

Wait a cotton-pickin’ minute. I thought Les Nesman learned that Turkeys couldn’t fly?

[Jane Long]

Funny.

[Boogieman]

See, that’s what I get for listening to the interwebs.

[Utah Binger]

Les was misinformed about a few things. I hereby testify your honor that I have indeed seen it in person..

Wild Turkeys fly!

[Zhang Fei]

Commercial birds are breed and maybe genetically modified for maximum and fast growth. They just keep growing until their little hearts can’t keep up. We picked up a few chicken truck escapees and they live a bout a year and die when they’re about the size of a medium turkey.

I wonder if they die of heart disease. Maybe if they were allowed to run around in the yard looking for bugs to eat instead of being fed large amounts of chicken feed, they'd live a little longer.

[Elsie]

Deja vue all over again!!

https://www.google.com/search?q=mike+headless+chicken&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&ie=&oe=&rlz=1I7ADRA_enUS475

[Elsie]

Their eggs have to be fertilized by artificial insemination.

I saw this on the Dirty Jobs show!

[Elsie]

Cool!

I’ve only one chicken left from 3 years ago - a little red hen. And I MEAN little! About the size of a Robin.

The other 5 just... VANISHED!

Still have two white ducks from a year ago and my 2 mallards and 2 Blue ducks from this year never figgered out how to fly.

(Or else they’re just lazy welfare moochers that squawk loudly for me to bring them more food!)

[goat granny]

wild one's can fly pretty good, domestic one's not so good. Had one of my pens for a tom and 3 hens only a regular wire fence, they never got out, but had a wild tom fly into the area and get into a bloody fight with my male. I was raising Royal Palm turkeys plus meat turkeys. Hubby was not about to get in the pen to separate the tom's so he handed me a pair of leather gloves and told me to go get them apart. I obeyed like a good farmers wife, carried the wild one to the chicken coop and let him breed with a few other females I had in there. But when they get a hold on the waddles of the other turkey, they don't let go so easy. Hubby enjoyed the show. the only way to carry a turkey is head down and by the legs, they will squawk at you but cannot hurt you...

That is a great flock you got visiting there, happy thanksgiving..:O)

[goat granny]

I don’t think they just disappeared, they were some critters dinner. My daughter had a big snapping turtle in her pond and it took down one of her ducks.
the other 2 wouldn’t go near the pond after that. She saw a hawk eating one also. The third she didn’t know who ate that one, it just disappeared.. Its a jungle on the farm..LOL Hope your babies are doing fine. It sounds like you fowl have you trained real good.

[fella]

“I wonder if they die of heart disease. Maybe if they were allowed to run around in the yard looking for bugs to eat instead of being fed large amounts of chicken feed, they’d live a little longer.”

The ones we picked up were put out with our yard birds. At first they did OK except they didn’t fly well and we wrote that off to having been raised in a large scale chicken house. But as they got bigger they had a harder time getting around. One broke a foot just jumping down from a low roost and then had a really rough time of it. Their bodies keep growing but their bones only go so far. then one morning they’d be laying flat on their back with their feet in the air like a cartoon the only birds we’ve had to do that.

[clearcarbon]

[Zhang Fei]

The ones we picked up were put out with our yard birds. At first they did OK except they didn’t fly well and we wrote that off to having been raised in a large scale chicken house. But as they got bigger they had a harder time getting around. One broke a foot just jumping down from a low roost and then had a really rough time of it. Their bodies keep growing but their bones only go so far. then one morning they’d be laying flat on their back with their feet in the air like a cartoon the only birds we’ve had to do that.

I wonder if that's because stateside varieties are bred for their breast meat, so they're top-heavy. Whereas outside of the UK and North America, it's the legs that are prized, so they're bottom heavy.

[Utah Binger]

When I was a kid I worked for the Ogden Poultry Company in Ogden Utah. One of my jobs among other things was to load turkeys into the trucks to take them to the processing plant. What you do is to herd them into a corner and back into their backside, reach down and grab both legs with your right hand and grab the left wing and toss them head first into the truck cage which would hold about ten in each layered cage. IIRC the trucks could carry about two hundred birds. Regarding the left wing, I brought that up in order to give Elsie a new talking point of sorts.

[Elsie]

I wonder if that's because stateside varieties are bred for their breast meat, so they're top-heavy. Whereas outside of the UK and North America, it's the legs that are prized, so they're bottom heavy.

I...

must...

resist...

[Elsie]

Ever haul them over Wolf Creek Pass?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=X6LzWZYWpOU

[Elsie]

Regarding the left wing, I brought that up in order to give Elsie a new talking point of sorts.

Oh; like I gobble up any little tidbit you toss my direction??

[bmwcyle]

bttt