A Seattle family lets you weigh in on the fate of two turkeys

Urban poultry farming is a thing, too.

By Al Kemp
Seattle Times
Nov 11, 2019

Excerpt:

Resplendently regal in black and golden plumage, Norm the turkey scoots, glides and struts around his hay-strewn kingdom like the emperor of Normandy Park. He announces his supremacy with a noisy warble that rises above the sound of passing traffic and neighborhood leaf blowers.

Norm and his companion, a hen turkey named Emma Jean, are unwitting participants in a community food drive that puts their lives in the balance. Each food donation is a vote to decide whether the turkeys will be “pardoned,” or if a different sort of fate is on the table. The last day to vote is Thanksgiving.

Candace Krull, whose family raised Norm (named for Normandy Park) and Emma Jean, has been an urban poultry farmer since 2013. In those years, chickens have charmed their way into the family’s heart and become Candace’s favorite domesticated animal.

“They’re the easiest pet of any of my animals I’ve ever had,” she said.
The turkey food drive, now in its second year at the Krull home at 200th Street and Third Avenue in Normandy Park, is officially a thing.

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