Smith Valley students prepare turkeys for Thanksgiving

From hatching eggs to making sales, students at Smith Valley Schools are learning the entire process of how to prepare turkeys for Thanksgiving.

Wyatt Berrington, student business manager, says, "First, we have to catch the turkeys, weigh them, then we tag them, then after we catch them, we tag them to keep track of their numbers, take them over to the slaughter station, they get put down."

The turkeys are then given to the next student who dips the turkey in a barrel of water.

Brysen Walston, a sophomore, says, "So right now I'm dunking the turkey in hot water, not quite boiling water, you want to stay around 150 degrees. The hot water is supposed to loosen the feathers."

With the turkey warm and the feathers loose, it is then passed on to a machine everyone calls "the Mother Plucker.