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    This has just a bit too much profanity, else I'd post it. But, it's absolutely hilarious about farming stuff that nonfarm people usually don't know about.

    http://tinyurl.com/84jbfns (From www.cracked.com)
    The explanations for each of the following topic titles just keep getting better and better as the author goes on.

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    #6. Animals Are Designed by Nature to Be Gross


    #5. Animals Are Also [jerks], Stupid, or Stupid [jerks]


    #4. Let There Be No Misunderstanding About This: Chickens Are Rapists



    #3. Pollution Becomes a Part of the Landscape


    #2. There's No Such Thing as a Vacation



    #1. In the Country, All Your Neighbors Are Insane







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    Quote Originally Posted by MinnesotaSmith View Post

    #4. Let There Be No Misunderstanding About This: Chickens Are Rapists

    Absolutely true!

    We have 21 chickens roaming the yard, including 3 roosters. And chickens have their own hierarchy, which Junior the Rooster is at the bottom of. Junior only gets hens by stealth.

    Well, one day, I'm out milking a goat and I hear a rooster "having his way" with a hen right at the end of the milking stand. Suddenly, Junior's head pops up and he jumps off the hen.....and she immediately turns on him with a ferocity that is stunning! For a minute, they faced off like fighting cocks, with their hackles up. And then the offending "rapist" turned tail and ran for the hills!
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    Quote Originally Posted by grower View Post
    Absolutely true!

    We have 21 chickens roaming the yard, including 3 roosters. And chickens have their own hierarchy, which Junior the Rooster is at the bottom of. Junior only gets hens by stealth.

    Well, one day, I'm out milking a goat and I hear a rooster "having his way" with a hen right at the end of the milking stand. Suddenly, Junior's head pops up and he jumps off the hen.....and she immediately turns on him with a ferocity that is stunning! For a minute, they faced off like fighting cocks, with their hackles up. And then the offending "rapist" turned tail and ran for the hills!
    Our male Great Pyrenees will pull a rooster off a hen if she howls too loud. He usually carries the offending party across the field & releases him.

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    Having grown up on a farm the only one I'll agree with is #2, there are no vacation. Numbers 1,3, 5,& 6. are inane.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thunder View Post
    Having grown up on a farm the only one I'll agree with is #2, there are no vacation. Numbers 1,3, 5,& 6. are inane.
    I'm pretty convinced about #3 as well. I've seen too many farms and ex-farms not to be aware that for lots of farmers, one of their lifelong mottos is "the world is my trash can". One of my ethanol plants ( a converted potato farm) had an old building in which I found discarded mail from as far back as 1908. The same place had vehicles, old insulation and other building materials, piping, fencing material, tractor tires, the odd dead dog, etc., all in back corners of the property (where the likelihood that that debris was dumped by nonresidents was nearly nil). I worked at on that place for almost a year (living there for the first few months), so got to explore thoroughly. It's not at all the only one like that I've seen, either; it's apparently a common behavior among farmers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MinnesotaSmith View Post
    I'm pretty convinced about #3 as well. I've seen too many farms and ex-farms not to be aware that for lots of farmers, one of their lifelong mottos is "the world is my trash can". One of my ethanol plants had an old building in which I found discarded mail from as far back as 1908. The same place had vehicles, old insulation and other building materials, piping, fencing material, tractor tires, the odd dead dog, etc., all in back corners of the property. I worked at on that place for almost a year (living there for the first few months), so got to explore thoroughly. It's not at all the only one like that I've seen, either; it's apparently a common behavior among farmers.
    It's NOT pollution when you are a farmer! Nope it's not junk and it's not trash, it's inventory and "we might need that someday". IF you ever wish to live on a farm and survive as a farmer you'll have to learn how to see things differently.
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