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Show Flocks could panic SANPETE Concern that flying a hot air balloon over turkey flocks could cause the turkeys to panic and result in a loss to the turkey farmer surfaced last week here. In a letter to John Leisek, a balloon pilot who makes flights over the area, a Moroni Feed Company attorney, Ross C. Blackham, expressed the concern. "Turkeys are easily frightened by low flying objects such as airplanes, helicopters, balloons or any other object that makes a shadow and noise as it passes over. These sort of things often cause turkeys to panic, and all run to the corner of a barn of the corner of a turkey pen and pile on top of each other several layers, and suffocate themselves," said the letter. Mr. Leisek disagrees. |