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Sat, 1 Apr 2017 12:32:01 -0400
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      This morning about 9:00, one of my big dogs walked into the yard carrying A DEAD TURKEY.  This dog is definitely not stealthy enough to have a caught a live turkey, so I assumed he had found a dead one and just brought it home.  I buried the creature in the garden.  Half an hour later, the dog showed up with another dead turkey.  Now I had to investigate.  Followed the dog back into the woods, and was shocked to find another 12 dead turkeys.  Then I realized what apparently had happened.  Lightning had struck the tree under which the birds were standing, and killed them all.  I have actually seen this sort of thing once before, when I was a kid on my grandfather's farm in Virginia.  That time it was about twenty sheep.  We were only about 100 yards away, and were lucky it wasn't us.  
     I hear turkeys nearly every morning in the spring, so I already have it as a year yard bird.It's sad to think that a whole flock might have been wiped out,  but some might have been far enough away that they could have survived.   (Some of the sheep did). At any rate, twelve turkeys definitely fill up the front loader on a Kubota tractor.  I'm thinking about preparing one for dinner tonight.  Anyone have any recipes for wild turkey?


Joe Faulkner 
Somerset, Ohio
Perry county
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