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Crazy For The Birds

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I made our manager of the poultry department take inventory yesterday. This is what he came up with:

18 layer hens of varying ages

2 roosters, one big, one tiny

5 baby chicks

4 hen pheasants

2 rooster pheasants

1 guinea fowl

2 Embden geese

1 house quail named Rooster Cogburn; Chuck for short.

Thirty-five birds total.

He then proceeded to convince his Dad and I that we should let him purchase two full grown turkeys to live on the barnyard and go to the fair with him this summer.

He’s even got us seriously considering letting him add peacocks to the farm.

I think we may have officially gone to the birds.

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Sex Ed on the Farm

We have a hog with a hernia that her cage mate thinks is a nipple so she lays around nursing on it like a baby.

We have a guinea pig with cancer of the mammory glands and a penis that protrudes, which requires Preparation H.

We have a chicken who thinks she’s mama to a dozen pheasants and spends meal times telling the mini horse all about it.

We have a gelding who forgets he’s gelded when the sun is high and the breeze is nice.

We have a rooster that plays cat and mouse with his 22 hens, and we have a juvenile gander that has just started trying to mount the girl goose…sideways.

That right there is the kinda sex ed they just don’t teach in books.

🙂

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