Ugh, I remember that disgusting smell of my grandma "scalding" a fresh chicken. I could never eat fried chicken after seeing that stuff.
Some of our friends had those, and they did okay. I just never found the need to invest the time to make one.
Funny how we'll spend 10 hours to make a contraption that avoids 5 hours of unpleasant work, huh? The upside is doing so has an avoidant facet to it.
Turkeys are actually quite good at swimming. They move through the water by tucking their wings close to their body for a streamlined shape, spreading their tails, and kicking. I didn't know that, and the guys that took this video didn't know either. Does anyone else find it odd it bobs it head forward and back while swimming, just like chickens and doves do while walking. I thought that was only for some kind of balance.
We have quite a few wild turkeys around the area. I have seen some on back roads and by a few lakes we live by, but I don't think I have ever seen them swim. It makes sense that they would though, I suppose. I have family members that hunt them every year. I don't particularly like the taste of wild turkey. It tastes.....wild.
My feelings exactly. We no longer butcher birds--or we haven't for a while. We may can some old layers when they age out, but probably not unless we skin them and can them.
50 years ago I fished in what was then a very remote spot outside of Richmond. You pulled into a cleared area to park, right next to a hand pump at the top of a rise. There were 3 individual ponds at the bottom of the hill...a medium one to your right, a small one in front of you, and a smallish lake off to the left. I was out there early one morning and looked up to the sight of a turkey majestically (and silently) flying the length of the lake. It never occurred to me that any of them would go in the water...I've never seen it.
I could not have any animal in my daily presence and then be expected to have it for dinner. out of sight put of mind - thingy.