Posted on 11/25/2018 12:51:40 PM PST by SJackson
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“But who can love an animal that scratches the ground, picks out seeds, ticks...”
I’m gonna adore any critter that knocks out Lyme disease, possums included.
You could have used turkey and had one for the bottom right from the start. Missed an opportunity, there.
rwood
This guy has never raised turkeys - hands down the dumbest animal on a farm.
You left out that pigs make for some really fine eating.
Chops, roasts, bacon, BBQ, rinds, the list goes on.
“This is the greatest barbecue I’ve ever tasted! That pig must have been a genius!”
A horse in unquestionably the dumbest animal in the pasture. They can find a way to get out of the fence, but will never figure out how to get back in. They spook at a moving shadow. A moose will scare them to death. They get their heads tangled up in barbed wire. There’s a whole array of just stupid things they do.
A cow will remember where the hole in the fence is so they can get back home. And they just don’t do the dumb things a horse does.
pig, horse, cow, chicken, sheep and then turkey.
Sheep don’t look up into the rain, mouths agape, and drown!
Baaaaad analysis. You never saw the game piece...I TOOK A LICKIN’ FROM A CHICKEN? Google it.
Do Tide pods or chug a lug parties indicate humans are as stupid as sheep?
Pigs are smart, but goats are evil geniuses.
Even in the Equine class horse is at the bottom of the list, ponies, mules and donkeys are all much smarter. Smartest one I ever ran across was a pony/donkey cross. Sturdy and smart with a gate like a jackhammer. As a pack animal though she would walk any other animal into the ground and then dance pass their prone bodies saying "Nah, Nah, Nah you sissies!"
Now goat is ahead of cow though. Little trouble makers.
So pig, goat, cow, horse, duck, chicken, sheep. Just my opinion, your millage may vary.
Uhhhh, sorry Larry Scheckel cotton plants do NOT supply wool.
If you blow your credibility in the first 3-4 sentences, why should we pay attention to any more of your waste of good bandwidth?
And that is why the God likens us to sheep.
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As farmers, we always did the gate test to determine farm animal intelligence.The heifers and cows, et alii, would be in the pasture with a loop-lock gate, just a rope on a nob. Lift the rope and you are out, The cows failed miserably, not a one. The pig could open and reloop it/ The horse, an Arabian, always lifted the loop with his mouth. Ditto for the goat. The chicken was too small but there is a video on utube showing a chicken opening a door. There is also a video on same showing 3 women who failed the swing-do-not lift gate test.
Thus the gate ranking is:
1. pig
2. Horse
3. goat
4. chicken
5. cow
6. woman
7. goose
Big man, pig man
Ha, ha, charade you are
That’s barely touching the subject. There’s many more farm animals.
“Pig, horse, cow, chicken, and sheep. That’s my line up, and I’m sticking to it.”
Bravissimo. Sounds good. I like the line-up of smart insects from Cal Berkeley about ten years ago. If the three finalists are ants, bees and butterflies, the winner goes to the butterfly, the smartest insect by far. Funny how the researches tested the insects with color games and smell games.
Pets you can eat!
Although actually a farm pest, I’d put the crow as the smartest.
A crow was recently observed trying to get a grub our of a rotting log. After a few unsuccessful minutes, the crow flew away and returned with a piece of wire. He then held the wire down with his feet and used his beak to bend and fashion a hook. He then used the hook to pull bugs and grubs out of the log.
I don’t ever remember reading about any other animal actually modifying something to make a more efficient tool.
As annoying as crows can be at 5:30 AM if you have a bunch near your house having a loud, er...”discussion”, it is hard not to admire them. They are very interesting creatures. My favorite story was related by a hunter:
Every year when he went deer hunting on his property, the crows would silently follow him around, making no noise, waiting until he bagged a deer and removed the gut-pack, after which they would swoop in for the feast. That part didn’t surprise him, he figured they knew a good thing when they saw it.
What he didn’t understand is how they seemed to know the exact day the hunting season would begin. When he would come out of his back door, ready to go, the crows were ready to go as well, sitting everywhere getting ready to follow him.
What the Hell...could crows read signs or calendars??? Then he realized one year, that they figured it out by watching him through his windows. As soon as he started pulling out all of his hunting gear, putting it on his dining room table, waterproofing his boots, cleaning his gun and such, the word got out in the crow world: He’s almost ready to go...be prepared to follow!
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