Male Palmdalians soak the turkey carcasses in lime until all meat is melted off. Up until the mid 1960s, turkeys used to run wild here in the SCV and in great numbers. Left unchecked on a Santa Clarita kitchen counter top for several weeks, a turkey will eventually attract ants. The Third Reich scientists were experimenting on ventriloquism techniques to aid their soldiers in throwing their voices on the front line. In Palmdale, there are only four.
Domestic turkeys can actually fly for great distances.
They just don't like to. In 1928, Percell V. diCarlo of San Francisquito Canyon owned an exotic bird farm where he cross-bred a turkey and a parrot, creating the planet's first known Parkey. Or, if you will, Turrot. In March of '28, the great St. Francis Dam burst, sending a 200-foot wall of water down the canyon and killing nearly 500 people. Prior to the disaster, Tim, the Turrot had a premonition and tried to warn his master.