Farm Animals

Please tell me this is not where we learn to butcher them prior to taking them over to the Food Conference and the Recipe Master for cooking...!

no! silly goose.

ha-ha! My grandpa had one pig; her name was Doll - he got her for christmas once, didn't know what to do with her, so he gave her to us as a pet. She was great! We used to ride her and everything! Pigs are pretty good with kids. I didn't like orphan calves though - they get really nasty as they get bigger.

Perhaps there is a divine purpose in that mean-ness as they grow older...you don't feel so bad about eating them, then!

ha-ha!!! EEEK!!! But how true!

'Attack' Chickens Cause Flap SONOMA, Calif. (Reuters) - Chickens have long ruled the roost in this picturesque California town, where a wandering flock of hens and roosters has given the downtown plaza a homey, rural charm appreciated by tourists and residents alike. But something has put Sonoma's chickens into a foul mood, and after a flurry of attacks on neighborhood children, city officials have voted to ban the belligerent birds. ``It's not charming when you have to see your baby attacked,'' Monica Garcia of nearby Boyes Hot Springs told Sonoma's City Council on Wednesday evening after her 16-month old son was jumped by a rooster. ``Seeing the blood going down his face and seeing him screaming ... I can't sleep at night,'' Garcia said. The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported on Thursday that the Sonoma council, faced with horrific stories of mounting chicken aggression, decided it was time for the chickens to go approving a plan to roust them from the downtown plaza and distribute them to local farms in this northern California county. One theory circulating in Sonoma is that too few hens among the many roosters has made the chickens more aggressive. ``I don't know if it's possible to envision a roosterless plaza,'' Councilman Ken Brown said after the vote. ``But I have to tell you, when it comes to a question between a kid and a chicken, it's the kid.''

roosters are viscious!

For a while they were trying out red contact lenses but it did not work and they fell out and all that. Oh Yeah, they are vicious! Ask the Cock Fight afficionados in Hawaii - and world-wide, actually!

i know. i saw a rooster get mad irl. my friend's dad took a leather belt to him.

Did i ever tell you about 'Henry' our African rooster who terrorised us? We got him 'free' from the Senegalese supemarket during a promotion (yeah, they had chicks at the front of the store and you chose which ones you wanted - they all turned out male!). Well, Henry was a survivor of our trip to Gambia and ruled his two lady hens with an iron beak. He tried to rule us too, and attacked anyone who went outside, usually by taking chunks out of the heel of someone hanging washing out. He was one horrible chicken!! I was delighted when he was fat enough to eat. I have never eaten chicken with such relish before (and I am part veggie!)

Just deserts?! (couldn't resist!)

Turkey Terror: Wild gobblers go bonkers in Boston area. B O S T O N, May 7 �Attacks by roving flocks of wild turkeys are on the increase around suburban Boston, and state wildlife experts can�t explain why. In Danvers, a postal worker was attacked so frequently that he carried a broom for protection for several months. A Peabody woman was recently rushed by a flock when she opened her door to get the morning paper. And in Walpole a woman was attacked while walking with her grandchildren. The bizarre turkey behavior might bring to mind other recent attacks by chickens in Sonoma, Cal. (see related story). Jim Cardoza, a wildlife biologist for the Massachussetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, said there�s no explanation for the turkeys� transformation into neighborhood thugs. �Nothing�s changed that much that could have caused this,� he said. Cardoza theorizes that an unusually large number of turkeys survived the warm winter and are being lured to the suburbs because people keep feeding them�something Cardoza urges people not to do. Mating Season He also noted that it�s mating season, a time when male turkeys are unusually aggressive. So far, no serious turkey-inflicted injuries have been reported, but Cardoza said he�s worried the half-tame birds could take disease back to other wildlife, the Boston Herald reported. Wild turkeys were once indigenous to Massachusetts, but disappeared in 1850 after many of the state�s forests were cleared for farmland. Since 1970, state wildlife officials have been reintroducing them to different parts of the state. The recent spate of attacks is a new phenomenon. One Danvers postal carrier was attacked so often that he stopped delivery to several houses on his route. �They would fly against the vehicle, peck the tires and if I stepped out to deliver parcels, they would chase me,� said the carrier, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid embarrassment. �If you swing at them, they take two steps and then come back.� In Walpole, officials have tried to capture two of the more aggressive turkeys with a �net gun.� But it hasn�t been easy because the turkeys can run up to 30 mph. The turkey-caused trouble isn�t confined to assault. They�ve also been blocking traffic, tearing up gardens and littering lawns with their droppings. If the turkeys are caught, state officials plan to relocate them to Plimouth Plantation in Plymouth, where it�s hoped they won�t be as annoying. Copyright 2000 The Associated Press.

THIS LITTLE PIGGY MADE A RUN FOR IT - AND NOW LIFE'S SWILL Friday, June 02, 2000 20:21 A plucky piglet saved his own bacon after making a daring dash for freedom, it emerged today. One-week-old Wilbur went on the run from his farm and trotted two miles before he was found. He crossed two main roads and at least four fields after hearing the call of the wild and escaping from Wotton Farm at Lympstone near Exeter, Devon. His adventure eventually ended when he was spotted foraging in a garden on a housing estate where a surprised resident put him in a rabbit hutch for safekeeping. Police contacted the farm, which rears pigs for slaughter. But after collecting wandering Wilbur his owners Tracey Webb and Rob Harding decided he was not for the chop and adopted him as a pet. "We're bottle feeding him at the moment because he picked up a chill during his walkabout," said Tracey. � Press Association