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CALGARY COVID-19 restrictions in Alberta will see smaller gatherings this holiday season with fewer family members around most dinner tables but the main dish will likely look the same as previous years. Laurel Winter, a fourth generation turkey farmer who farms southeast of Calgary, says raising smaller turkeys isn t as easy as you might think. This is our busiest time of year, said Winter. Our business is fresh turkeys at Christmas so we’re run off our feet here. She and her husband Lyle Weigum raise two flocks of turkeys each year with about 30,000 birds. The family focuses on fresh Christmas turkeys with a target weight of between 7.7 and 9.9 kilograms. It takes 18 weeks to raise a turkey for market from a day old bird and the Christmas turkeys arrived at the farm last August. ....