Henry Raymond
Fairfax News => Current News & Events => Topic started by: Henry on November 06, 2005, 07:29:55 PM
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Donny Gross is doing just a little bit more than thinking about turkeys:
(http://www.vtgrandpa.com/newsclips/dgross_051105.jpg)
The above photo was taken a little after 10 a.m. this past Saturday. Donny and three others started slaughtering the turkeys around 7 a.m. and a little over three hours later, 23 good sized turkey were oven ready.
Now back in the mid 1940s, I raised turkeys and I can tell you that if I had done this job, it would have been a 23 day job. The gentleman on the right in green is the one that slaughtered the turkeys and there is a special skill to it so that they release the pin feathers.
I used to use vice grips and pick them dry, completely different than these experts did.
(http://www.vtgrandpa.com/newsclips/dgross1_051105.jpg)
Now no matter how easy these guys made it sound, you most likely will find me pawing through the frozen turkeys down at Hannafords again this year.
A special thanks to Donny for letting me stop in and take a few pictures -- And I thank God he didn't ask me to help.