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To: Utah Binger
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)

51 posted on 11/19/2013 10:42:12 PM PST by goat granny
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To: goat granny; Elsie
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.
56 posted on 11/20/2013 6:25:12 AM PST by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
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