Moo!

DanHead said:

I had a pet chicken once, when I was in grade school. One day when I came home from school, my mom had a pot of chicken and dumplings on the stove. Strange that I never saw Rocky again. :o

Seriously, though, we were managing a resort and Rocky was getting agressive against the guests, and waking them up way too early in the morning!

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Was Rocky a chicken or Rooster?

Jim47 said:

Thanks for the explaination Dan. Never ever heard of such a thing, but it sounds to me like a kind of trait that God guilt into them because they may not be good at illuding predators, at least thats a possibility.

Neat indeed. They sorta become invisible to certain animals who depend on movment to see them. "A big Opposum"

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Possible, but I don't think they occur naturally in any numbers worth speaking about. It is a combination of autosomal recessive genes that cause the condition, so if you breed with goats that do not have the condition, the offspring will carry the gene, but not show the symptoms.

If you want to see how the condition affects the animals, here is a small quicktime movie (~1.3 Mb) http://www.webworksltd.com/webpub/goats/goatmovie.html.flat.mov

SPALATIN said:

Was Rocky a chicken or Rooster?

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Are you a human or a man?

Rocky was a male chicken (Gallus domesticus), otherwise known as a rooster, yes.

DanHead said:

Are you a human or a man?

Rocky was a male chicken (Gallus domesticus), otherwise known as a rooster, yes.

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LOL. Most people I know refer to chickens as hens, but you are correct in that the male chicken is the rooster and the female is the Hen.

SPALATIN said:

LOL. Most people I know refer to chickens as hens, but you are correct in that the male chicken is the rooster and the female is the Hen.

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Sorry, but I really felt the need to nit-pick something this morning.

DanHead said:

Sorry, but I really felt the need to nit-pick something this morning.

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Glad I could be your target.

DanHead said:

Possible, but I don't think they occur naturally in any numbers worth speaking about. It is a combination of autosomal recessive genes that cause the condition, so if you breed with goats that do not have the condition, the offspring will carry the gene, but not show the symptoms.

If you want to see how the condition affects the animals, here is a small quicktime movie (~1.3 Mb) http://www.webworksltd.com/webpub/goats/goatmovie.html.flat.mov

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Thanks Dan

I think my theory is all wet Huh? I had never even heard of these before, but I assumed that it was a particular breed or type of goat.

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DanHead said:

I had a pet chicken once, when I was in grade school. One day when I came home from school, my mom had a pot of chicken and dumplings on the stove. Strange that I never saw Rocky again. :o

Seriously, though, we were managing a resort and Rocky was getting agressive against the guests, and waking them up way too early in the morning!

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Must have been tough stew to get down. Roosters aren't noted for their tenderness unless it was a young one. We raised rooster some years ago till they were about a year old and then slaughtered them. After a year they were too tough. You can get them free from hatcheries because they are useless for breeding or laying eggs--obviously. One rooster can service a fleet of chickens so they arn't needed.

Radidio said:

Must have been tough stew to get down. Roosters aren't noted for their tenderness unless it was a young one. We raised rooster some years ago till they were about a year old and then slaughtered them. After a year they were too tough. You can get them free from hatcheries because they are useless for breeding or laying eggs--obviously. One rooster can service a fleet of chickens so they arn't needed.

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Ah, my mom could cook bear meat tender and tasty, believe it or not! My sister was pretty good tat that too. I'm sure a rooster was no problem after stewing in broth most of the day. Mmmm Mmmm! I haven't had chicken and dumplings like hers in years! I wish I had gotten her recipees, not that anyone could duplicate her cooking!

DanHead said:

Ah, my mom could cook bear meat tender and tasty, believe it or not! My sister was pretty good tat that too. I'm sure a rooster was no problem after stewing in broth most of the day. Mmmm Mmmm! I haven't had chicken and dumplings like hers in years! I wish I had gotten her recipees, not that anyone could duplicate her cooking!

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I think I was about 3 years old when I had my taste of Bear meat. For some reason I remember it being a richer taste than Beef. Would that be a correct assumption. After all it has been 40 years since I had it last.

SPALATIN said:

I think I was about 3 years old when I had my taste of Bear meat. For some reason I remember it being a richer taste than Beef. Would that be a correct assumption. After all it has been 40 years since I had it last.

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You know what, I remember raving about it more than I remember it itself. What I do remember is that we had lots of roasts & stews and it was kinda like pork.

mooooooooooo

Lacko said:

I read all your posts in this thread: wow it seems like some people live in the country with livestock and other animals - that seems so nice to city folk like me…. Recently I’ve actually thought a lot about buying some cows and a horse…yeah right like that’s going to happen any time soon – I live in the middle of a very large city 2.4 mill city core plus 3 mill outer core but for several weeks my neighbour actually had a rooster (well I didn’t see it but I sure heard it) haha

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Funny you shoud say that but I was playing golf last year right in the middle Scottsdale AZ and around the course there was nothing but beautifull houses and one lone rooster just making a racket. Seemed kinda weird.

Anyway my neighbors raise hogs and I had one butchered for the freezer. I'd I had one of the steers butched from another farmer but I like pork better. Maybe when I get one that is corn and milo feed. You can cut the steaks with a fork when they're fed that way.

City folk seem funny to country folk. They love animals until the animal gets rid of waste products from eating and drinking, then they freak out. Just try moving in a small hog barn with 5,000 or so critters next to someone and they aren't usually friendly at all.

They don't seem to appreciate the airplane buzzing by at 5 a.m. nor the 400 horsepower tractor going by. And moving big machinery from field to field, well people would rather die than wait 30 seconds.

Then there are the people who think that since things are on a farm they are just free to go in and take whatever they want. More than a few people fill up their vehicle with field corn and not know that all corn isn't sweet corn. I had a fellow in California tell me he always knows when his melons are ready to harvest because he drives past the people selling them by the road on his way to the farm.

And we won't talk about the people that have 4 wheelers or dirt bikes or even pickups that have seen a few too many commercials and tear up fields and pastures and fences and anything else they can make it over all in the name of fun. Some seem to think cattle are just there for the challenge of chasing them.

But most city folk are really nice and even if it seems a bit silly, I have stopped a tractor and had my picture taken more than once. Just seems strange to be a tourist attraction.

I've had the joy of having a lot of different animals in my life. In addition to dogs and cats, I've had chickens, including one bantam that was the most terrifying thing on the farm, milk and beef cows, hogs, honeybees, alfalfa leafcutter bees, and the unusual one, mink.

Every animal was different, I liked the hogs best. Especially when we had sour skim milk mixed with ground feed to give them. You'd have thought it was free beer or something. I understood pigs.

I've been bit, cut, stepped on, kicked in about every mentionable place and unmentionable ones too, run over, burned my hands trying to hold a rope, chased and been chased, stung several hundred times at once, and most injuries had a liberal coating of waste material just to help them get off to a good start healing. Yeah, I really miss those animals. It's fun having them around.

Marv

Radidio said:

Funny you shoud say that but I was playing golf last year right in the middle Scottsdale AZ and around the course there was nothing but beautifull houses and one lone rooster just making a racket. Seemed kinda weird.

Anyway my neighbors raise hogs and I had one butchered for the freezer. I'd I had one of the steers butched from another farmer but I like pork better. Maybe when I get one that is corn and milo feed. You can cut the steaks with a fork when they're fed that way.

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Playing golf down there must have been nice... i was
in Arizona several years ago. It’s absolutely beautiful down there, especially the Sedona area. But I certainly didn’t play golf there - I played golf only once and in 18 holes I managed to lose over 20 balls and one club which flew over 40 feet into the air and almost hit these two guys playing a ball in a sand bunker. haha

BigNorsk said:

City folk seem funny to country folk. They love animals until the animal gets rid of waste products from eating and drinking, then they freak out.

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This is completely true haha.

Yesterday I was at a party for my friend’s mother’s 60th birthday party which was filled with all city folk (including me), for example I think there were something like at least a dozen senior prosecutors and there were fashion designers etc. Anyways my friend’s dog spit out some broccoli in the kitchen which it didn’t want to finish eating and my friend (the dog’s owner) didn’t want to pick it up because she felt it was gross. So I just grabbed it with my bare hand and threw it in the garbage bin, this seemed to shock my friend a bit haha.

As a bit of a side note, I love my friend very much and I feel she is a great person so I don’t mean this in a derogatory way towards her.

I was born in a big city, lived in the city part of my life, I didn't think I'd ever end up in the boonies on 17 acres and having a few animals.

ctay said:

I was born in a big city, lived in the city part of my life, I didn't think I'd ever end up in the boonies on 17 acres and having a few animals.

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Depends on what you want out of life. I live on 20 acres and a log cabin and am by no means a farmer but I still can't believe, 10 years after buying this place, how beautifull and quiet this place is. It never ceases to give me pleasure sitting on my porch swing at night and watching thousands of fireflies light up the pasture like a blinking galaxy or watching deer and turkey wander through the morning mist. Wouldn't trade it for anything.