<p>Garland, that reminds me of a story my Irish grandmother used to tell me about being chased by a bull through a field and escaping over a stile. :)</p>
<p>Chickens are charming and fascinating creatures. I love watching my girls roam around investigating things. Or at least I did until I started having to confine them to a pen when the foxes moved in…it’s large, but it’s just not the same for them. :(</p>
<p>I should have maligned the roosters. They chased me relentlessly as a kid. They would scratch me and peck me. I had to keep my bike on the front porch and ride out of the yard to get away from them. They would chase after me, wings flapping, on the bike. I loved the little bantams on the farm.</p>
<p>If it ain’t some farmer with cold hands, it’s a bull who thinks he’s all that. So like I’ve got enough on my plate without some pimply high school kid in a varsity jacket trying to tip me over. And what up with those Gateway boxes?</p>
<p>–A Cow</p>
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<p>Absolutely right.</p>
<p>haha, dougbetsy, how did u make the first & third smileys? : P</p>
<p>Those are really cool smiley faces! Never seen them before.</p>
<p>Cartera, roosters are horrible. I had a rooster by accident–he was supposed to be a hen, but the chicken sexer goofed–and he made my life miserable. I had to keep sticks and brooms on the porch and a plastic baseball bat in the car! After he attacked me from behind and drew blood–through long pants!–I finally called the guy with a card up at the local feed store. He was Asian and works at a restaurant–no lie! He came and took the beast away one evening, making me very happy.</p>
<p>The girls, though, are delightful.</p>
<p>I lived on an egg farm as a child, in an area with lots of egg and chicken farms. Consolation, you’re the first person I ever heard of call them “delightful.” We found them to be foul-tempered, dirty and smelly. Maybe they wouldn’t have been if free-range had been in fashion at the time.</p>
<p>Except the hatchlings. I loved playing with the chicks!</p>
<p>My uncle’s chickens chased me when I was a kid. They scared me!</p>
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<p>That’s where you, you know, slip the cow a few bucksgrease the hooves, as it wereand the cow goes a little easy on you. This kind of thing goes on in small towns all the time.</p>
<p>Ewww…you didn’t go there, mantori, did you? </p>
<p>That might be a new topic that hasn’t been done on this board, before.</p>
<p>:eek:. I mean :eek:
. I really don’t think he was going there. (But hey, I don’t how I got there either.)</p>
<p>An update:</p>
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<p>NO, I WAS NOT GOING THERE!</p>
<p>I was just talking about graft. Like, bribery. Not…you know. Ewww!!!</p>
<p>But okay, now that I re-read my post, I see why it sounded like I was going there. “Grease the hooves” was a play on “grease the wheels,” meaning “bribe”.</p>
<p>Ew, ew, ew.</p>
<p>THANK GOODNESS FOR THAT, mantori!</p>
<p>graft…yeah, that’s bad, too. :D</p>
<p>(O.K… Apropos to nothing) I own a ranch so one of my standard funnies goes like this :</p>
<p>City slicker: “Hey. Do you breed Longhorns?”
Me : No. I prefer to let my bull do that. 
City slicker : …:eek:
Me : :)</p>
<p>So it is an urban legend after all. Sheesh, people are so gullible!</p>
<p>Actually mythbusters is well aware that it will shock you. Google mythbusters and peeing on a fence. Episode 14 I believe. ;)</p>