Posted on 03/24/2025 7:29:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Some very funny stuff...
I have an uncle that got stomped pretty badly by a cow. Mostly, bulls are protective of their herd. Roosters can be worse. I knew a guy that was hospitalized when one of his pheasant roosters spurred him, deeply, near his femoral artery. Another guy that always took a bucket into the jungle fowl coop. He couldn’t get anything done until the rooster was under the bucket.
The one time I visited my uncle’s farm as a very young kid, my father told me sternly to stay away from the bull.
At that age, I didn’t even know what a bull was.
In the very early morning when the rooster crowed, this town kid got very scared and ran to be with my father in his bed. I can’t imagine what I’d have done if I’d actually seen the bull.
But I grew up to be fascinated with and to love animals, anyway :-)
I was attacked by a rooster once. It’s amazing how much force they have when they rear back their heads and ‘stab’.
Got me very close to one eye, and hit my knee so hard it was painful to walk for a few days.
I used to keep some free-range Silver Pheasant. The rooster liked nothing better than hawks coming down to “play.”
Milk does a body good. There are PETA freaks who oppose milk on ideological grounds while pretending it’s all about nutrition or safety. I’ve always been a big fan of it, and grew up in the country where everyone drank it. Also, because of knowing farmers who had a few cattle, occasionally I’d have some unpasteurized, wow is that great.
That depends on the breed. If you've got Holsteins or Guernseys, sure, go ahead, name one Bossie. But if you've got Brown Swiss, then definitely, name one Brunhilde. In fact, I think the BSCBA bylaws require that your herd always have at least one named Heidi.
Growing up on the farm, our cow was named Daisy. Once or twice she got into a patch of wild onions and my youngest brother hasn't consumed milk in the past sixty plus years, poor kid.
Thinking about that, I remembered when the County Extension Agent tested our well water and told Dad to pour a bunch of gallons of Clorox down the well. The problem was clearly that the well was too close to the cattle's feed lot. The after effect was the color bleached out of every pitcher of Kool-Aid we made for weeks.
I remember drinking irradiated milk in Guam while stationed there back in the early 80s. They finally got a cattle farm on a nearby island that started producing milk... Which was much better
I still drinking 2 to 3 glasses daily... Good for you
Every time I go into a Braum’s here in North Texas, on a Friday , the store is full of people from India and they are all buying gallons of milk.
And many are only buying milk. Males, Fathers, women, ......it’s bizarre. I think it’s a religion thing.
I think the last milk I drank was Mom’s — 75 years ago. Hate it — also sour cream, yogurt, cottage cheese.
I’d visit dairy farmers in our town, and they had “creamery” rooms and the smell ... OMG!
While I use milk on occasion for cooking, mostly, I do like the taste of full cream milks from local dairies.
Very pricey but so delish! Just as an occasional treat..
And just be glad it didn't put you in the third category.:)
There was a story by James Herriot where he talks about a bull calf who's life he saved and what a friendly little fellow he was. Every time he came by the calf with the large gentle eyes would come up to him to be petted and made over. Then he did not have to go to the farm for a couple of years and the calf grew into a bull. The next meeting was not quite as cute and heartwarming.
Yes! I know that story intimately-one of my favorite book series...wasn’ that story the one he had to put the nose ring in that bull’s nose, and he ended up getting trapped in the pen with the bull???
Egad!
We have Jerseys. Lovely, gentle darlings that we hand milk and I have still collected more then one serious bruise and/or cuts because of them.
The bull calves get turned into baby beef when they are a bit more then a year old. They still have some cute left but they are starting to get that look in their eye.
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