Turkey Time, turkey tail feathers
Turkeys are the best! Their tail feathers are well suited for my carving: they are big and thin-barbed; the feathers ship to many countries without the need for additional export permits. But I am mostly grateful for turkeys because they taste good. My neighbor raises heritage turkeys whose fertility is epic. The females wander into her woods in the spring and come back in a few weeks with huge clutches of chicks. By fall or winter, she needs to reduce the extraordinary number of birds she ends up with. Lucky me. There is one bird that never ends up in the pot because she endears herself to every person by being friendly as a dog.