Monday, November 26, 2007

T-Giving Fun Fact: What Your Turkey and I Have in Common

I heard this on the news, and dug around to confirm:

"The domesticated turkey's broad-breasted varieties are typically produced by artificial insemination to avoid injury of the hens by the much larger toms and because the physical changes resulting in broad (double) breasts have also rendered most males incapable of natural mating."

(Courtesy of N.P.R. and W.ikipedi.a)

Heh.

6 comments:

LJ said...

Oh man, that's all sorts of hilarious

Bea said...

And I have personally had the... pleasure... of collecting semen from a rooster. Yes, I have wanked roosters. What fun times.

Bea

Nica said...

BEA YOU ARE MY HERO!

E. Phantzi said...

that's freaking awesome.

Anonymous said...

Too funny.

Familyofthree said...

Hmm...I think we have a new job for Mike Rowe and his Dirty Jobs...no pun intended :)