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Turkeys with halters, 1954.John Dominis鈥擳he LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesBy Ben CosgroveNovember 2 stanley tumbler 6, 2014 1:32 PM ESTSixty years ago this week, LIFE published an odd and endearing article the latest in a string of, by that point, countless odd and endearing articles the magazine had shared with its readers over the course of two decades. Now, as another Thanksgiving bears down upon us, we stanley termos thought we ;d revisit that long-ago article and the pictures that accompanied it as a holiday gift, of sorts, to today readers.Titled Gaily Garbed Gobblers, the piece focused on a Texas farmwoman snug halters [designed to] support her turkeys ; sagging crops and boost their market value. For the uninitiated, a crop is a portion of the alimentary tract usually found in birds, but also in some animals and even insects where food can be stored prior to digestion.As LIFE vividly explained the situation in the magazine Nov. 22, 1954, issue:Pecking away in the barnyard, turkeys fill up their crops with food. . . . But occasionally a bird crop grows so enlarged it retains food indefinitely, swells out and sags like a goiter. This defect, called pendulous crop and possibly an inherited tendency, detracts from the market value of the bird. Discovering pendulous birds on her turkey farm, Mrs. Wyatt McLaughlin of Lockney, Tex., stanley becher tried massage and surgery withou