The Welcome to Knitting Pipeline, the knitting podcast with a Celtic flare.

Here is your host, Nitter and Piper, Paula,

recording from Central Illinois USA. Hello, welcome to knitting pipeline. This is episode 2. I have a couple of notes from the last episode that I would like to add just a couple

of things about turkeys and then that'll be it about turkeys for a while anyway.

I did find out what the appendage is that the turkey has that hangs down from his chest. It is called a beard and remember I said

it looked like hair. It looks like a skinny horse's tail or some of them the

pictures I saw weren't so skinny. They are

apparently longer and thicker in older birds. So I think this guy was kind of old because his was probably a good 12 inches long.

Once in a while I guess it's fairly rare but a female turkey can have a beard.

So I guess it's a little bit like humans, right?

Once and a while that happens there too.

A little too much testosterone or something.

The baby turkey is called a polt, P-O-U-L-T, and the knobs on a turkey's head are called

car uncles, like car-unkel only without the bee. A male turkey can be heard

over a mile away and wild turkeys spend the night in trees perched on branches.

So I think that's a good reason for me not to go wandering in the woods at night because I don't think I'd want to walk under a turkey and who knows what might happen. And one thing I'd like to add about

sprouts last week I talked about how to make your own sprouts for healthful

eating. I realized I need to start making more batches of sprouts more

frequently because I single-handedly ate a whole jar. I'm talking a large maynaise jar of sprouts.

Well, it's about three quarters full, maybe a little more.

In just a few days, because I do really like them and they make me feel

like I'm taking good care of myself.

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