[goat granny]

You poor creature, without Styrofoam package's you'd starve to death. I don't want cookies, I want steak, Whitefish from Superior, blacken tuna and you can keep your cookies.. And a nicely browned turkey for Thanksgiving. I have seen my meat chickens dropped into that cone, the death is quicker than what most people die of..

Gutting a 25 pound turkey is no picnic, but I have done that also....raised it from a day old and better than what you pick up in those bags in the store, and not soaked to water to add weight and pumped up with anti-biotics which is necessary when you have a couple hundred or more in one barn.

I have a feeling your just pulling our leg to get lots of replies, and you have....LOL

[bgill]

Gutting a 25 pound turkey is no picnic, but I have done that also....raised it from a day old and better than what you pick up in those bags in the store, and not soaked to water to add weight and pumped up with anti-biotics which is necessary when you have a couple hundred or more in one barn.

My grandpa would step off the back porch and shoot a wild turkey. My granny and I (you know, us uncivilized women-folk) would clean and dress it for the pot. Pulling out the intestines and such might not be pleasant but oooh, feathers stink in a hot steamy kitchen! Unlaid eggs still inside went into the giblet gravy. No other way around it, that's just how it gets to the table.

Here's one for nmh. When my Lil Miss was younger, she went on a field trip to a butcher shop where they learned how sausage was made. She grabbed some "natural" casings, blew them up and made balloon animals.