Least favourite farm animal

[ikki]

Well wouldnt let them come any closer than 10 cm with that reaching mouth..
A open zoo in texas (where one.. unsurprisngly... drives ), and the rest area with some treeclimbing goats in a pen.

[Allenson]

Cows are fine--they're nice & mellow for the most part. I worked on a dairy farm for a few years when in high school.

Horses are a bit like women--moody, tempermental and one must be very clear & explicit with them or otherwise, misinterpretation will occur. I also worked on a horse farm for a spell when in college and many friends growing up had horses...so, I'm pretty used to them by now.

Sheep are sweet & docile for the most part, at least in my experience.

Goats are just a riot. Those critters will climb all over anything they can get their hooves on. Several years ago, I was camping with some friends right on the beach along the northern coast of California. We were in the middle of nowhere, no houses around anywhere....when suddenly, two goats showed up and very much wanted to get in all of our business and eat our food to boot. I wrastled with one of the goats for a bit and thing absolutely loved it.

Here I am giving one of the goats a little shit. Keep your chin up, kid.




Chickens, well, they're just foul.

[Frigga]

People may think that goats and sheep are sweet and docile, but don't let those cute eyes fool you! Rams and billy goats can kill a human. My little brother in law, when he was five years old used to be terrorized by the family pygmy goat. She would tree him and bleat at him, wanting to butt him around. His mom would have to rush out with the broom and get her away from him when she would do that. My boyfriend has been charged by her as well. He had to grab her by the horns and subdue her to get her to stop. And she was smaller than a springer spaniel! He had also been charged at by a 400 pound Sussex ram, and he had to quickly grab a board and smack it across the head as it was charging him. There's a reason that sheep and goats have survived long enough to be around today. When they have to protect themselves against predators, they are able to.

[Ulf]

Emus, I almost hit one with my car one foggy night in the middle of Amish country.

[Tolleson]

Sheep because every freakin' one is a liar!

[Manifest Destiny]

Horses are weird. Animals are unpredictable (even tamed ones), so an animal that huge, strong and fast can be dangerous. Plus those huge teeth remind me of Julia Roberts.

[ikki]

Horses are weird. Animals are unpredictable (even tamed ones), so an animal that huge, strong and fast can be dangerous. Plus those huge teeth remind me of Julia Roberts.

heard/saw somewhere that AA etc organisations for people who have lost control of their daily life.... have as a part of the program getting a perfectly cooperative horse to lift its leg.
There is no way anyone can lift it unless the horse wants to. Nor is there a question of it nt being cooperative... just about the person sending out the right signals and being determned.

[The Black Prince]

I like all domesticated farm animals, I especially admire bulls and stallions, though I also respect them, since they can be grumpy from time to time.

But I agree with Loki, I don't like flies, don't mind so much the small ones (they only bite when it is damp weather). But there are also the big quiet ones, the horse flies, who hide in the long grass and than sneaky, without a sound, try to land on your back.

Here is a small collection of the ones to be found in the Dutch swampy grasslands:


regendaas/reinbrems (rain gadfly?)


goudoogdaas/grienkop brems (gold eyed gadfly/ greenhead gadfly ?)

Another miserable being nexto the normal grey and black mosquito is the Tiger mosquito:


They are new to our (small) part of the world, this year I spotted the first ones along the lakessides and ditches.

[ikki]

i know that triangular bastard... it has a grey and long... but horribly slow cousin that feeds primarily of livestock near water. Which makes it easy to kill them
Broms.

[Octothorpe]

Sheep! Damned morons! We raised sheep (and hogs) on my folks' sundowner farm. They are, without question, the dumbest quadruped on the gods' green earth. They will run head-on into a wall, simply because some small thing spooked them. They crap on their own food, soil their water, and will step on and kill their own offspring. I think that millenia of selective breeding has made them dumber than any feral creature.

Oh, the hogs were smarter . . . which made them far more dangerous. I saw a scuffle of them stomp, kill, and eat a water moccasin that came up the drain onto the hog-floor. I would never turn my back on them.