OK, you make me feel better. I do all of those EXACT things, including the dirt roads and I am signalling to the cows and pigs.
A couple months ago we had a gaggle of prairie chickens cross the road at a crossing light in a 50 mph zone.
It was the damnedest thing.
We all stopped for the light and here they all come on parade strutting across the road as if they understood it all.
The light turned green while they were still making the crossing, and EVERYONE sat and waited for them to cross that road.