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Quote: Well, yes, actually. The traditional Box Turtle farmers of the Pacific Northwest use only white picket fences...because all the other animals would just ignore them!

Quote: At a Poultry Learning Day that I was asked to teach some classes at, I was having kids come in and tell me that they had just learned to tell what color eggs a chicken lays by the color of its legs. I was sort of open minded at first, but as they proceeded to tell me that my Sumatras...

Quote: I've ridden Clydesdales...there seem to be two strains, kinda like the production RIR and show RIR. the smaller strain isn't much bigger than your average warmblood and make for good rides. I've also seen an eight-year old girl ride bareback on one of the big ones. It was amazing.

@annaraven: Pretty much. An udder is the whole system: teats, orifices, ducts, glands, etc. Also, yes, I do know about precocious milkers and milking bucks. That's why I mentioned the "scary hormone problems", because all of the goats that I've known about with these conditions had other...

Quote: Well, actually, this isn't that far-fetched. Most oddly-colored vegetables lose their color when boiled, as do most things really. However, if she'd ever boiled brown eggs, she'd know that the pigment in eggs is built of stronger stuff. I was explaining to a couple of friends the...

Quote: This is completely unrelated but what breed/crossing is the calf in your avatar? I saw a few at State Fair (just calves, unlabeled) and was curious! Do they lose that cool coloring as they get older? It is pretty amazing how clueless many people are when it comes to dairy animals ("why...

Okay, so country bumpkin story, to keep it fair... I was hanging out at the theatre, and some girls were talking about an eclipse that was supposed to happen that night. I got super excited (lunar eclipses are cool!) and asked them when. They said that they were going to go at 10:00 pm. So...

If you can show me a head-shy dead horse (and prove it!) well...we'll put you in therapy to start with. Okay, so I breed Partridge Wyandotte Bantams (my little boy took champion bantam, champion chicken, and reserve grand champion over all poultry at Oregon State Fair. We lost to a PIGEON?!)...

Quote: Dude, I want a zebra! Only, it has to be small, cause I don't want to feed it much. And those big stripes? Too tacky, let's reduce it a bit. And add feathers. Everything's better with feathers.

so, my friends play farmville, and evidently the chickens there lay eggs that match the color of their feathers. for example, black chicken=black eggs, red chicken=red with stripes, etc. i thought i was going to puke- can you imagine the questions we're going to get now??

Quote: Not in the front, but they do have molars in the back! Neither do deer! Or goats...but they have such adorable milk teeth! yes, i look at my baby goat's teeth and tell them they're cute. don't look at me like that!

I completely forgot about this thread...and maybe this forum... So, we raise dairy goats, and milk them (duh), so we get some pretty weird questions. "So can I buy some goat milk from you, or are you using it as milk?" - I do not understand this question. Yes, we just milk the goat and throw...

WriterOfWords, I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or be offended. Poor Pete, he must have been very confused for awhile.

Okay, i'm not fantastic with pigs, but isn't a barrow a castrated boar? Or is that just hogwash?

oh, Dr.Doorlock, that's the oldest one in the book!!!

<what have I unleashed upon the world??? > The neighbor kid just asked what kind of chicken was in the crate. It's an Angora rabbit. Granted, he was playing safe given that we have silkies and frizzles but STILL-he has big floppy ears! I never thought about the whole ovulating period thing as an...

digginchicks,I don't get it... oh wait, I think I do...wait, no. Explain to a poor stupid person?

Teacher, I feel your pain... People say they won't buy my eggs for the same reason. Also, the whole horse thing is why I don't read horse books anymore (besides black beauty, misty of chincoteague, and the like) Horses are horses. They are not spiritual angels from heaven.

green family farm, can you say SPIT TAKE!!!! ROFL, that one takes the cake. were they serious??? It's around Easter, so she should start soon...

I gave a green egg to my neighbor. She asked if it was covered in poo. Man, you guys are jarring my memory! Also, people freak out when they see my frizzle's eggs. They seem to think they were "born" prematurely.