posted February 04, 2009 03:30 PM         

I have a part time job that does NOT pay enough for me to save all that money..my options are working at a factory where I'll work 8 hr shifts making 8$ an hour. Or getting another part time job that only pays less than $8/hr and work on average 9 hours a day at $8/hr (working two jobs).

Or..

Collect eggs at a turkey farm. That's right. There's a job opening in the local paper for EGG COLLECTORS at a turkey farm paying $9.25/hr but it's 12 hours a day. 5am-5pm, about 5 days a week. Ouch.

Yes, I know turkey farms stink. I realize it will be gross and long hours. But I also realize I can make $$$BANK$$$ in no time at all.

Would you do it? I am not a morning person but Im telling myself to just grow a pair and do it. I would quit after my trip, obviously..and then move.

posted February 04, 2009 03:41 PM         

I've done the Turkeys at Christmas, plucking the slaughtered birds. It was alright, with the radio on and some thermal underwear* we got through.

posted February 05, 2009 03:29 AM         

But, hey, if I owed my Granny 400 quid, I wouldn't be sitting around worrying about not being a morning person. I'd be on the farm. C'mon, she needs her pension money back!

posted February 09, 2009 10:33 AM         

My only question is: turkey eggs? What do they use turkey eggs for? I have never seen a turkey egg, or heard of a recipe calling for a turkey egg.

After having written the above, I have now had the bright idea that these turkey eggs will be turned into lickle baby turkeys. Aha! Why edit when you can show the world what a twonk you are?!

But, this still begs the question: why do we not eat turkey eggs? Why, when it would cut down a lot on packaging of half a dozen chicken eggs - and twould be greener no? And eggcups would be a lot more fun.

I NEED TO KNOW.

So, augentier, you going to take the job?

posted February 09, 2009 10:49 AM         

However... no such extreme measures are necessary because look:

TURKEY EGGS
A white to cream colored egg with brown speckles that is laid by a hen turkey. Similar to chicken eggs, except larger, turkey eggs weigh approximately 80 to 90 grams (one and a half times more than a large chicken egg) and are slightly larger than a jumbo chicken egg. They have a flavor that is very similar to a chicken egg and contain 135 calories, 9 grams of fat, and almost 740 mg of cholesterol, all of which are significantly higher than for a jumbo chicken egg. Since turkey producers have a low rate of egg production per bird, most of the turkey eggs are used for hatching more turkeys, so they are seldom available to the consumer except in some specialty markets.
from: http://www.recipetips.com/glossary-term/t--36473/turkey-egg.asp

So, turns out turkeys don't zip them out as often as their more obliging feathered cousins.

posted February 09, 2009 10:57 AM         

I dunno now augentier. How big are your hands girl? You looked quite slight in photos I recall. This is the hand of a full grown human man.

posted February 09, 2009 11:03 AM         

What if you want the egg and it won't budge? What happens then? You shout at it, it flips you the bird so to speak. You start to wrestle. Feathers fly. Your boss takes the turkey's side in the affair. Morale drops. You leave the job. You can kiss goodbye to Guatemala and your Nan, well - she's disgusted with you. Disgusted.

And I hate to worry you mate but check this out:

Turkey Attacks Woman In Highland Park

A woman says she was attacked by a turkey in Highland Park.

A woman running in Highland Park survived an unusual attack.

It wasn't by a mugger, but by a turkey. (my itallics)

Rachel McCurdy says it happened on Friday.

"I noticed alongside the road a little baby turkey. As soon as I saw it, my instincts told me (to) get to the other side of the road - its mother's going to be around," she said.

It was then - along Lake Drive around the bend from the swimming pool - when she says a turkey attacked.

"The next thing I know I just got hit from the side. Two claws went into my hat - ripped the hat right off of my head," McCurdy recalled.

She tried to use the hat to scare the bird off.

"I caught my hat as it was flying down and knocked at it and I ran off to the other side of the road thinking that would be it and it came running after me and I flew down the road screaming like a little kid," she said.

The turkey chased her about 50 feet.

McCurdy figured it was a female turkey protecting her young, but Henry Kacprzyk at the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium says that may not be the case.

"I would guess it was a male turkey," he said. Kacprzyk thinks a female turkey was nearby.

"The male had interest in breeding. This time a year they'll breed again and it's possible he was interested in breeding and this person got in between," he explained.

Kacprzyk says males have both talons and spurs to use in attacks.

"You're talking about an 18 - to 20 - pound bird, a lot of force behind it - males ,just like in a **** fight, they will come down on each other and sometimes they'll come down on a human," he said.

"I mean I could still feel its claws in my head a couple hours later," McCurdy said.

Fortunately, McCurdy did not need to go to a doctor, but after this experience, she's going to avoid that part of the park.

"I mean I felt it going into my head and I could feel like the wind from its wings trying to keep itself up," McCurdy said.

She wonders what would have happened if it attacked a child and wants people to know about it.

Kacprzyk says it's very unlikely to happen again.
http://kdka.com/pets/turkey.attack.jogger.2.783269.html

posted February 09, 2009 11:09 AM         

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Kacprzyk says it's very unlikely to happen again

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Well, Kacprzyk seems very sure of himself huh? I wish I could be so free and easy in my opinions. Alright for some. I bet he'll feel like a major dork if it DOES happen again.