Tag: Turkeys
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Gov. Polis pardons four turkeys, highlighting Colorado ag
For the second year running, Gov. Jared Polis pardoned several turkeys raised in the state in a small ceremony at the historic Governor’s Residence at the Boettcher Mansion. The four birds pardoned, Lady Riketa Featherington, Dinger, Rockette and Fred, were named, “in a fair and free election,” among the Governor’s staff, Polis joked. Polis, flanked…
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Gobble, gobble, crunch: How some farmers have turned to birds to combat the ‘hopperpocalypse’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save CAÑON CITY • Hundreds of grasshoppers flutter through the air as Matt Koster wades through his neighbor’s decimated hay field. Passing through the flattened grass and fog of pests, he reaches his own field. The clouds of insatiable insects seem to dissipate, and the rows…