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Business
1:01 pm
Mon June 18, 2012

Michigan leaders seek business partnerships with Turkey

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Michigan and Turkey share a passion for cars, spend a lot of time farming, love entertaining visitors and both have a close connection with water.

More than 50 Michigan leaders went to Turkey earlier this month for a four-day conference titled the “Turkey-Michigan Forum: University-Industry Collaboration and R&D Trends.” Attendees came from the private sector, public sector and academia.

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Offbeat
4:57 pm
Mon March 5, 2012

Crying "fowl" in an Oakland County land dispute

Credit screen grab from a video of Godzilla the turkey / Freep.com
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It's not quite Hitchcock movie territory, but it's close.

Luckily for her, Edna Geisler doesn't have to deal with thousands of malevolent birds, but one particularly ornery fowl is making life rather difficult for the Commerce Township resident.

As the Associated press reports, Geisler has been facing daily bullying from a wild turkey "willing to bump, scratch and harass her" if she  so much as sets foot in her front yard.

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Offbeat
7:00 am
Thu November 24, 2011

Preserving the classic Thanksgiving turkey

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John Harnois raises Narragansett turkeys, one of the so-called heritage breeds. He also raises a few Bourbon Reds, another heritage breed.
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Many heritage turkey breeds tend to be closer in appearance to wild turkeys than the most common commercial turkey breed, the Broad-breasted White. The Broad-breasted Whites have been bred to have white feathers, so there won't be dark marks left behind w
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The tom turkeys strut their stuff for the hens... who appear to be not particularly interested.
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John Harnois gobbles to the turkeys and the turkeys respond in unison.
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A male Narragansett in living color. Turkeys are native to North America. They've been transported across the Atlantic Ocean several times, from Mexico to Europe... from Europe to America... as turkeys were domesticated, crossed with wild turkeys, and new
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In honor of Thanksgiving... we're revisiting a Michigan farmer who raises heritage turkeys.

Those are turkeys that have a little bit of a wilder history. Some farmers are trying to keep these older turkey breeds from going extinct.

John Harnois has a yard full of turkeys. He says he knows his turkeys so well, he can speak their language.

"The turkeys pip, they bark, they gobble."

These turkeys are mostly males. They're trying to look all big and macho as they strut around in front of the hens. These birds are the Narragansett breed.

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