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Sentence Examples Elk, mule deer, wild turkeys, black bears, and pumas still roam the range, beneficiaries of its remoteness. Bears were gone from East Texas, as were wild turkeys, ivory-billed woodpeckers, jaguars, Carolina parakeets and red wolves. After a motorcade ride to Dulles, the turkeys were flown to California to their new home at Disneyland. The U.S. Department of Agriculture outlines food handling tips to help cooks prepare turkeys that won't cause sickness. The food heroes will focus on favourites such as turkeys, geese, well-hung beef, cheeses, wine, smoked salmon, pickles and chutneys. Heritage turkeys are allowed to roam freely in pastures and forage for food naturally. Chickens, turkeys, pigs, rabbits and ducks are also being sprung from their cages and sent out to pasture. By then, the originally beautiful, rich-coloured chestnuts are dried out, mildewed vestiges, fit only for stuffing turkeys. Chickens and turkeys were kept both for their eggs and meat just as sheep provided wool and meat. Small mammals, turkeys, fish, and shellfish were important foods, as too were hickory nuts. Normal conversations are possible at the shooting range and the sounds of wild turkeys or elk may be heard from long distances. Ten million turkeys being reared for the festive period are at risk from blackhead, a parasitic liver disease which causes birds to waste away. It feeds primarily on deer, but its diet may also include small mammals, wild turkeys, and occasionally domestic livestock, when available. A good display of chickens, boiling fowls and rabbits has replaced Christmas turkeys. Western ragweed provides forage for deer and the fruits are an important food source for upland game birds, wild turkeys and songbirds. The closest we have gotten to this genre in recent years are the various pirate turkeys and submarine films. An overwhelming majority of turkeys polled feel that Thanksgiving is not actually Turkey Day. Because the male turkeys were so unnaturally bloated they were unable to mount the female turkeys. Phasianid galliforms are commonly known as grouse, turkeys, pheasants, partridges, francolins, and Old World quail. However, sales don't drop completely as turkeys aren't the only fowl to be eaten over Christmas. Show More Sentences He raised chickens and turkeys for 4H, winning puffy blue ribbons for champion poultry two years running at the Colorado State Fair. Ground-dwelling omnivores, turkeys walk miles foraging for nuts. insect, and other edibles. Wild birds may carry these infections, but they typically prove most harmful to domestic fowl like chickens, ducks, and turkeys. During the year turkeys may have ranged over more than 2,000 acres of woodlots and fields. One aspect of the sport that is gaining popularity is bowhunting for turkeys. As you get deeper into turkeys, you'll find an almost infinite number of widgets, gadgets and gimmicks for turkey hunters. The mean annual survival rates of female turkeys in Connecticut were similar to rates reported in neighboring states. As I strolled along a heavily used game trail, a covey of wild turkeys fled before me and hid in a thicket of wild roses. Manure from egg laying chickens is higher in calcium than manures resulting from growing broilers or turkeys. These cooperatives had portfolios that, between them, included grain, pork, turkeys, fertilizer, beef, agronomy and petroleum. There are also goats, sheep, calves, budgies, rabbits, chickens, turkeys, ducks, owls. When they spotted wild turkeys in the New World, William could not resist bringing a few of the gobblers back. Male turkeys are sometimes called gobblers, which makes sense because they gobble. Prizes on offer include, hampers, turkeys, biscuits, cakes and bottles of spirits to name just few. Both fresh and frozen turkeys are transported in refrigerated trucks to their destination. Southport played the role of the seasonal turkeys as they were given a festive stuffing by the Shrimps on Boxing Day. Households commonly raise cows, pigs, sheep, goats, turkeys and chickens, geese and ducks, while oxen and horses are work animals. Everyone has seen at least a few gallinaceous birds, since domesticated chicken and turkeys are in this category. For example, chickens and turkeys can escape most of the harms just described. Each year, around 10 million turkeys are slaughtered for the Christmas table and millions of pigs, ducks and geese will get the chop, too. Show More Sentences Orders may now be placed for Christmas cakes, puddings, turkeys, geese etc. They also took on board other seasonal essentials including turkeys, mince pies and Christmas puddings. Wild turkeys will destroy a food plot containing chufas if the grazing pressure is too high. To avoid the stress of transportation, the turkeys will be humanely slaughtered on the farm. There were roast pheasants, turkeys and boar, pizzas, pastas, caviar, salads, gelatin, pies and many other yummy goodies. Farmers trim from a third to a half of the beaks off chickens, turkeys, and ducks to cut losses from poultry pecking each other. Under the elevated train line along Roosevelt Avenue, cardboard turkeys and dried corncobs decorate storefront windows. Very little is known of the epidemiology of coccidiosis in free-living wild turkeys. Rearing turkeys was no easy job even in small numbers and diseases such as pip and gape took their toll despite good care and attention. The wallpaper-covered box of about 1830 is inscribed with a schedule for setting out glass eggs to stimulate ducks, chickens, and turkeys to lay. Rearing turkeys and looking after other fowl was all in a day's work for Mae. Velogenic viral infection of chickens and turkeys in lay usually reveal egg yolk in the abdominal cavity with flaccid, degenerative follicles. This is the gapeworm of poultry, found in the trachea of chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl and many species of wild birds. Perhaps as a result of the success of the wild turkeys, Shenandoah embarked on a more ambitious project later that year. There will be turkeys and hams galore to the lucky winners so be there and get your Christmas Day dinner sorted out. The members who have been kept at arm's length will dutifully behave like turkeys voting for Christmas. Most of the clubs are in exactly the same position and like turkeys voting for Christmas, they created the situation themselves. I don't think councillors will vote for this with an election looming, it would be like turkeys voting for Christmas. It is my belief for fishermen to accept this would be like turkeys voting for Christmas. When politicians actively cut taxes, they are like turkeys voting for Christmas. Show More Sentences The chickens and turkeys also roam freely in the fields, eating bugs, grasses, and grains. This invention relates to apparatus for processing carcasses of gallinaceous animals, particularly but not exclusively, chickens and turkeys. The main problem, as we saw it, was that none of us realized that domestically raised, free range turkeys can fly. Most game birds are also galliforms, including grouse, partridges, pheasants, quails, ptarmigans, and wild turkeys. As food, wild turkeys eat its roots, and ruffed grouse, mourning doves, bobwhite, turkeys and juncos devour its seeds. Free-range chickens, turkeys and guineas will feed on ticks and other pests, such as grasshoppers, Japanese beetles and mosquitoes. These calls mimic sounds in nature that turkeys often respond to by gobbling. Ironically, the little drummer boy was killed by a pack of wild turkeys a year later while frolicking in the woods of New York. In my book, Thanksgiving is just some made-up holiday someone invented to sell more turkeys, so I wasn't going to do anything for it. John enjoyed the outdoors, gardening, feeding wild turkeys, his dog, sawing and chopping wood with his axe and swede saw. He'd self-destructed with an alcohol problem, he explained, and had turned out a number of turkeys while on the sauce. Frozen turkeys or other poultry must always be thawed fully before cooking. He rears 100 bull beef calves, runs a flock of 300 ewes and produces 3,000 turkeys for the Christmas market. Cattle, hogs, and domesticated turkeys foraged through unfenced pasture and forest. When all areas in the watershed are included, 88 billion pounds of manure from chickens, hogs, cattle and turkeys are generated every year. This bacterium is primarily carried by birds such as parakeets, parrots, pigeons, turkeys, and ducks. Alas, the York poulterer had only large turkeys left in the shop, so what he did was cut the birds in half. And the systems had to be easily adaptable to handle other birds, such as turkeys and ducks. When I arrive, he's shifting 500 free-range turkeys from their hut on to a truck that will take them to the butchers. The poultry industry estimates that nearly two percent of American homes eat free-range turkeys during the holiday season. Show More Sentences In severe winter weather turkeys will frequent conifer stands such as hemlock, spruce, and pines where the temperature and wind are more tolerable. Some domestic breeds such as turkeys have very colourful feathers. Birds affected by this disease are fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, pheasants, guinea fowl and other wild and captive birds, including ratites such as ostriches, emus and rhea. I came across fewer real turkeys than outstandingly good books, mainly because I tend not to dip into a novel unless I think I've got a good chance of liking it. David and Kathy are using some of their cattle pasture to run a couple thousand broiler chickens and turkeys in movable pens that they will direct market. His most recent films, execrable turkeys have achieved the seemingly impossible by being even crasser and less watchable than their dismal predecessors. Back in 1505, turkeys were still gobbling innocently around America. There's an increasingly-popular trend in bowhunting for turkeys. A woody hillside, populated by my pet chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and guinea fowl, trying to find their missing feathers. A bid to keep turkeys in tip-top condition has come before planners. Quill pens were generally cut from the outer hollow wing feathers of swans or geese but feathers from eagles, crows, and turkeys were also found to be suitable. We used counties to examine the supply of phosphorus coming from confined animals including broilers, layers, turkeys, hogs and pigs, fattened cattle, and milk cows. With ten classes ranging from a stag over 11 kg, to a brace of seasonal turkeys and a butchers presentation class, the judge was given a difficult task. They drove hundreds of miles to pick up the Nebraskan turkeys. The final freight train carried three carloads of frozen turkeys. The 17 hectare nature protects eight hectares of undisturbed rainforest, which is home to pademelons, brush turkeys, water rats and possums that can be seen on walks. I tested these hypotheses experimentally in a host-parasite system involving wild turkeys and their intestinal protozoal parasites, the eimerian coccidia. Scattered turkeys will often want to regroup after the flush. There were turkeys, geese, ducks and chickens and guinea fowl on sale. But being a mere male who doesn't cook turkeys every week, and who was brought up using imperial weight measurements, I trusted in the packaging instructions. Show More Sentences Minced pies and mulled wine will be available and the shop will be selling everything you need to survive the festive season from hampers and gifts to trees and turkeys. Reviews the 250 species of pheasants, partridges, grouse, quails, turkeys, guineafowls, buttonquails, sandgrouse, and plains-wanderers of the world. We did brine some turkeys last week and they were ultra juicy. It would have involved bowling frozen turkeys down the ice at skittles. In the video, Brown misspoke slightly on the number of turkeys killed each year for consumption. The area is home to a variety of other birds, including nesting bald eagles, hawks, owls, bluebirds and several other songbirds, wild turkeys, herons, and waterfowl. And sometimes turkeys will give you a really rich looking dripping. In all seasons, droves of cattle, sheep, hogs, geese, turkeys and other livestock shared the busy road with wagons loaded with grain, barreled beef and pork. Every time they scampered forward in the opening half hour, the hosts took fright, sporting that look which befalls turkeys each time the barn door is unlatched. The father had a plastic bag in each hand, containing two of the turkeys he had come to pass out to people in the neighborhood. Dribbly toilet bowl drinks, stolen turkeys, musical howlings and runaway days are all part of the bittersweet musings. Bear in mind, however, that for some purchasing people, deciding to use an agent is a little like turkeys voting for Christmas. Poultry, kept for their eggs and for their meat, include chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks. Irishman Vincent Pilkington is the world's fastest turkey plucker at one minute and 30 seconds. He once plucked 244 turkeys in 24 hours. After an hour of fishing I saw a flock of turkeys on the opposite bank and shot one of the poults. Ocellated turkeys were unsuitable for domestication, but were rounded up in the wild and penned for fattening. A great variety of birds can be observed including eagles, turkeys, toucans, parakeets and macaws. Researchers have tested a low-tech solution to the problem of poaching by double-crested cormorants, often called water turkeys. And EFSA wants more studies to set safe levels for feeding Nitarsone to turkeys to control blackhead disease. Like all fowl, turkeys tend to go quiet when held upside down. Show More Sentences What do Sewin sea trout, Norfolk black turkeys and Ayrshire cattle have in common? Though some people use coolers or buckets to brine their turkeys, the easiest way is with a large brining or zip-close plastic bag. It is black box and river red gum country, where brolgas once danced in the moonlight and brush turkeys fed in the scrub. Wagner took care of the family by farming dry land with workhorses, raising up to 2,000 turkeys and pulling broomcorn. Westbrooks, a native of Chicago, came up with the idea of fried turkeys after being frustrated when she couldn't find desirable takeout dinners. But cash-strapped Birmingham welcomed the festive period with Darth Vader, tapdancing turkeys and Alvin and the Chipmunks. Pheasants and chukars are bow worthy, too, along with wild turkeys, although that big bird is smoke for another campfire. In 1993, officials in I Missouri composted 20,000 turkeys that had drowned in a flood. Immunosuppression may predispose turkeys to clostridial infection, resulting in clostridial dermatitis and mortality. The risk is different for domestic chickens or turkeys, which are more likely to have contact with granivorous birds. Mycoplasma iowae, an occasional pathogen of turkeys, was isolated for the first time from captive grey partridges. Scientists in Dubai have successfully hatched chickens from the eggs of turkeys, guineafowl and ducks. Holiday turkeys may end up as sashimi, since oven roasting could mean a heatless Thanksgiving night or Christmas Eve. Scientists have disagreed most recently over whether hoatzins are closer to cuckoos or to galliforms such as pheasants, chickens, and turkeys. In 1966, VanHoof began hatching and raising his own breeding turkeys and now also supplies other New England farms with turkey poults. Each food bank received 640-700 turkeys, or 10,000-11,000 pounds, to help serve a total of more than 66,000 meals. Two Tamworth pigs, 49 sheep, a donkey, a mule, 13 turkeys, five guinea hens, four dogs, seven cats, and 50 or so chickens live here. Fed on organic wheat, soya and maize, plus sunflower seed and organic peas, Rhug's turkeys are finished with an oat fattener to make them plump and juicy. In 1895, Smith reported that blackhead, an economically devastating enterohepatitis of turkeys, was caused by a protozoan called Amoeba meleagridis. The imitations of the gobblings and other sounds of wild turkeys, often brought this keen-eyed and ever watchful tenant of the forest within reach of the rifle. Show More Sentences Scores of bird species range from great, soaring birds of prey to tiny hummingbirds with blue jays and goldfinches and egrets and wild turkeys and the great horned owl. These include seven giant tortoises that roam the house, three turkeys who chase cars and enjoy a wander to the pub, and a frog that's as big as a dinner plate. It has declared today the national day to begin defrosting turkeys, reminding cooks that a typical large turkey weighing 11kg will take two days to thaw. Frozen turkeys should be thoroughly defrosted before cooking. After the brooding period the young turkeys go to their sunporch. Although C meleagridis was initially discovered in turkeys, it affects a wide range of avian species, including parrots, chickens, partridges, and certain columbiform birds. Large birds like turkeys can be submerged in large stockpots. Chufa is a plant that produces an underground tuber wild turkeys relish. An episode of Ramsay's programme The F Word provoked a similar response when it featured a slaughterman killing six turkeys the chef had reared in his garden. Domestic ducks and turkeys had similar spectral sensitivities to each other and could perceive UVA radiation, although turkeys were more sensitive to UVA than ducks. Although we saw several Columbia blacktail deer, hogs, and turkeys during our brief tour of a small portion of the ranch, we did not see any other large Tule bulls. The spread of Histomonas meleagridis infections through groups of turkeys in the absence of the cecal worm vector was studied in a battery cage model. Big mule deer and trophy-sized Coues deer are his specialty, but he also has bagged desert black bears, bull elk, javelinas, Merriam turkeys, and mountain lions. To commemorate the 1621 feast enjoyed by the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony and the Wampanoag Indians in Massachusetts, Americans ate 46 million turkeys last Thanksgiving. Sorry, there's been a run on Christmas turkeys and we're out of stock. For example, both chickens and turkeys are permitted in most communities. But voting for Fine Gael is a bit like turkeys voting for Christmas. Examples from Classical Literature During the day wongas and Torres Strait pigeons were observed, and scrub turkeys frequented the river scrubs. Indeed, he did not awake from this kind of trance until the geese and turkeys were unspitted. Other figures of ocellated turkeys show but little in addition to the points just discussed. Shall I go and tell the goose girl to hunt the turkeys into the coop first? Joanna carved the turkeys, refusing to deputise either to Martin or to Alce. The young husband could stand in his dooryard and kill wild turkeys with his rifle. A sailor-boy then took him up, and set him in the hencoop among hens, and ducks, and turkeys. Our turkeys look droopy, and there is no telling when they will peg out. Their geese and turkeys I usually ate at a mouthful, and I confess they far exceed ours. Last year THL gave away 250 turkeys within just a few hours and then had to turn some families away. In their own sphere of life turkeys are as suicidally minded as hogs are. When your ship comes in, sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it? Then the big flock of turkeys eluded us in an impenetrable, brushy ravine. Weston's poultryhouse was robbed one night of all her turkeys evidently by the ingenuity of man. Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages, oysters, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch, all vanished instantly. Hart said that the barn lights up in the morning when the sun hits it and deers, woodchucks and wild turkeys could easily be seen around making it a perfect place to write. Printed on both sides of the decoy is a high-definition image of such animals as whitetails, antelope, elk, moose, turkeys, coyotes, and jackrabbits. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys. And true to tradition, the present incumbent George Bush carried out his annual show of mercy by pardoning two gobbling turkeys from Thanksgiving dinner today. They were in a country abounding with deer and wild turkeys, so that there was no stint of provisions, and every one appeared cheerful and contented. Find more words! 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