CYNTHIANA — Turkeys are not nature's most charming creatures. This flock of 46 black and white birds babbles and chirps in its enclosure on the farm used by Harrison County middle and high school agriculture classes, unaware that the end is approaching. On Nov. 20, they will be taken to Kentucky State University for processing and sold to customers in time for Thanksgiving. The students in those classes — which include classroom instruction, as well as farm work — have been with these turkeys since early July, when they were hatched, their little balls of fluff, called poults. The students...
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