Two heritage turkeys await slaughter.
Farmer Avtonom Ordjonikidze carries a turkey from the pen.
Butcher knives are sharpened before processing the turkeys.
A bucket catches excess blood after slicing the turkey's throat.
A turkey is dunked in hot water to scald the feathers off the body.
Farmer Avtonom Ordjonikidze (left) waits for the turkey to bleed out after slaughter.
Jaki (left) and Larry Thurman pluck turkey feather to begin cleaning the bird.
Farmer Avtonom Ordjonikidze holds turkey feet.
A turkey head on a butcher block.
A turkey after spending its last weeks in an avocado grove in Aromas, Calif.
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