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Joe Morette of Henniker, New Hampshire, in the US, is raising about 50 Thanksgiving turkeys this year. He’s been feeding his birds beer since 1993, when a turkey knocked over a can left near its fence and started drinking.
He says beer bellies aren’t just a human phenomenon, and insists the beer makes birds fatter, more flavoursome and juicier. He prefers to feed them lagers over light beer, but takes what he can get.
