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[Mulezen]

I had Guineas at one time…they’d try an infiltrate a small harem of turkeys sometimes seen in my bottom pasture. The male Turkey would display putting himself between my birds and his

 

[Art Deco]

Talk about your Christmas turkey! There were over 70 in the field next to the house this morning. So many, I couldn't get them all in the pic! I guess they don't know what day it is.

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This raises the question as to whether it's "greener" to buy a frozen bird or shoot your own?

Merry Christmas / happy holidays everyone!!

It is always greener to shoot your own, but really messy to clean your own. I am happy to pay for someone else to prepare the bird and ship it to my local store. But I don't have 3 dozen turkeys in my yard either.

 

[6zfshdb]

If you shoot your own, you must also consider the necessary dental work required when you bite into a piece of bird shot. As me how I know!
Also consider the heavy fine if you get caught shooting one out of season!

It's really a moot point anyway since the turkeys are almost like pets around here. It the spring and summer, they walk right past my wife when she's working in the garden. They come right up to the house and we could probably hand feed them if we wanted.

 

[Mulezen]

PBS has a wonderful show on wild turkeys in Florida…NOVA or Nature. A local naturalist raises a clutch of eggs and becomes part of the flock

 

[john peck]

While your posting pics of Dixie here’s a couple from the CDC to ponder (data 12/20) :

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Oddly more people dying per 100,000 in the highly vaccinated places.

Perhaps that is due to the predominant demography of those counties. I cannot vouch for the accuracy
of the following figures, but have seen them published multiple times on multiple sites. Supposedly 95%
of fatalities are over 50 with 80% of those being 65 or older. Maybe they got vaxxed but died anyway
cuz they´re old??? I notice some of those are very large counties sparsely populated which may
cause distortion of the map.

 

[PatriciaK]

While your posting pics of Dixie here’s a couple from the CDC to ponder (data 12/20) :

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Oddly more people dying per 100,000 in the highly vaccinated places.

Because that's where most of the people are?

 

[Art Deco]

Because that's where most of the people are?

Exactly.

 

[Gordon71]

Talk about your Christmas turkey! There were over 70 in the field next to the house this morning. So many, I couldn't get them all in the pic! I guess they don't know what day it is.

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This raises the question as to whether it's "greener" to buy a frozen bird or shoot your own?

Merry Christmas / happy holidays everyone!!

I regularly see 6-10 in the field in front of my house but never that many. Most often it's deer. My record to date has been 14 deer. Don't know about greener but I've heard wild turkey isn't as good taste wise.

 

[ActionJackson]

Because that's where most of the people are?

Per 100,000 is the reference - it’s normalized so it doesn’t matter the size of the population. If you’re referring to “density per a given area” it still doesn’t make sense - Tokyo is much denser than any area in the USA yet there’s less Covid than in the least densely populated parts of the USA. Especially the “Blue States”. Yesterday there were 38 new cases of Covid out of 37.5 million ppl in the Tokyo metropolitan area. And 1 Covid death. And no mask or vaccine mandates. Certainly we’ll have a deadly omicron wave but yet none of the hysteria or panic you see in metropolitan areas of the USA.

 

[DaveMatthews]

Japan has a better Vaccine rate than USA. So does Canada.

 

[DaveMatthews]

 

[DaveMatthews]

Just kidding...
This is my Xmas morning...

 

[Art Deco]

Just kidding...
This is my Xmas morning...

Our Xmas morning ( in Phoenix area ) is still grey and soggy ... just like home ( in Pennsylvania). It followed us.

 

[PedalUma]

@VoltMan99, Fun charts. A more accurate measure is by regression analysis to account for underreporting due to a lack of testing in some regions and misattribution of cause of death. That is reporting the underlying cause and not the apparent cause, cannot breathe. The 10 states with the highest per capita rate of excess deaths were Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Arizona, Alabama, Louisiana, South Dakota, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Ohio. On the other hand, vaccinations were accurately reported in all states.

 

[Handlebars]

Fun charts. A more accurate measure is by regression analysis to account for underreporting due to a lack of testing in some regions and misattribution of cause of death. That is reporting the underlying cause and not the apparent cause, cannot breathe. The 10 states with the highest per capita rate of excess deaths were Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Arizona, Alabama, Louisiana, South Dakota, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Ohio. On the other hand, vaccinations were accurately reported in all states.

In all states. Maybe true. Not true in the CDC.

CDC’s miscalculated jab data poses risk as winter looms​

The US Centers for Disease Control has overcounted the number of Americans who have received Covid-19 vaccines, recording numerous second doses and boosters as first shots, state officials told Bloomberg.

 

[ActionJackson]

Japan has a better Vaccine rate than USA. So does Canada.

True. But so is South Korea and China and they’re not faring as well comparatively.

Apparently they’ve discovered that the Japanese are genetically predisposed for more protection against Covid.

Most Japanese individuals are genetically predisposed to recognize an immunogenic protein fragment shared between COVID-19 and common cold coronaviruses - PubMed

In the spring of 2020, we and others hypothesized that T cells in COVID-19 patients may recognize identical protein fragments shared between the coronaviruses of the common cold and COVID-19 and thereby confer cross-virus immune memory. Here, we look at this issue by screening studies that...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Genetic factor may soften COVID blow for Japanese: study

Research suggests T cells that remember cold viruses react to SARS-CoV-2

asia.nikkei.com

I’m lucky to be surrounded by a superior race in that regards. But they do use Ivermectin in humans here too

 

[PedalUma]

How to deworm a hillbilly?

 

[ActionJackson]

How to deworm a hillbilly?
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Hillbillies don’t eat enough fresh food of any kind these days to get worms. Actually it’s much more prevalent in people on the West Coast who eat cheap salmon and mackerel sushi and sashimi from shops that don’t know what they’re looking for or how to pluck from the raw fish. Like Safeway, Whole Foods and Albertsons. Lately about 1 out of 2 salmon and pacific mackerel are infected. That’s why Japanese use Ivermectin. There’s also natural substances like papaya seeds. I had sushi once in LA. Once.

Here’s what I made last week at home:

 

[Prairie Dog]

Speaking of worms, my wife keeps a pail of red wrigglers in the utility room of our basement. She plans on using the castings in her garden next season. Apparently they like eggshells.

 

[Handlebars]

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The 3rd stage larvae are infected it says, but the cartoon doesn't say what they are infected with. Might be left coast brainworm.