>When it rains, turkeys look up to see where all the water is coming from and drown. In my book, that is not the action of a creature capable of thought.
> winter"we're each entitled to our own opinions."mute

My favorite story from the turkey ranchers (don't ask) goes like this:

There was a drought one year when a local worked on his neighbor's turkey ranch, and they needed to find a way to get water in the turkeys. Across the field, there was a small stream, but it was too low and there was no chance of irrigating with it, so the workers decided to herd the turkeys down to the stream. As it happened, a fence was between them and the stream, and the turkeys decided to be spooked by the fence. They absolutely refused to walk under it. After some consternation, the men decided just to throw the stupid turkeys over the fence. All twelve hundred of them. As if that wasn't enough of a pain, the turkeys, while being thrown, took a fancy to the shiny metal rivets in the men's pants, and the birds pecked greedily. By the way, pecks hurt. [Side note: This particular man never bought Levi's jeans again.] A woman who helped had the diamond pecked from her ring.

After too long at this absurd task, the turkeys were all on the other side of the fence. All twelve hundred walked over into the stream and drowned.

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