Idenity crisis at the shop

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wroughtn_harv

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It's not so much of a problem of whom but of what.

First there's Scrapper, the rooster. His problem is he's convinced he's the boss and I'm here to entertain him.

Yesterday would be a great example. I came home early from the job in the country. When I got out of the truck at the shop to open the gate there was Scrapper in the driveway telling the whole darn world that the show was about to begin.

He was flapping his wings and crowing at the top of his voice. Then he'd do his little dance. It's a head tuck down with a slow circle fast cadence foot stomper sometimes going into a figure eight if he's feeling creative.

When I pulled into the yard to park next to the shop he held his ground until the last split second. He keeps hoping I guess that the Lucy the truck will back off like everyone and everything else when he does his head up confrontation thing.

I got out of the truck and ignored him. I acted just like he wasn't under foot talking like I was an off colored step child that hadn't done my chores. I walked back to the goat--chicken house to check on Oreo. She's another transpecies challenged as you shall see.

Oops, hard work is calling, got to go to work, gotta luv it.

Here's Scrapper wondering why that hand doesn't have a minature marshmellow in it.
 

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Scrapper sounds a lot like my Brewster, will back down if his bluffs are not heeded. Too funny. My Oreo's two babies are doing so well, already started headbuttin each other and otherwise playing. She had two boys. Donkey, my gray dwarf had two girls. All are well. I've only named one of Donkey's babies yet, as I have to be inspired, and since this little goat has a perfect 'ying-yang' on her forehead....yingyang. Regretably Oreo's babies must be castrated or sold.
 
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All of the pets-animals have names that reflect a physical or mental feature that's obvious. Chickens have names like Stubby (missing a toe), Hussey (yup, you guessed it), Daffy (black and dippy). My cat is named Bear because he's a manx an when he was a kitten he hopped around like a bear cub.

I once had a guard chicken at the shop named Cluck. She had the best sense of humor I've ever seen in a chicken. I could tell her even the dumbest joke and she'd cackle.

Scrapper lit into the other rooster the other day when it ambushed a couple of boys visiting the shop. I saw the ambush just as it happened and screamed at the rooster. Old Scrapper came on the double and he whupped that other rooster like it was an off colored step child that stuttered and had a gimpy leg.

Bud has a Walmart. She's smarter than most educated people and just about any dog. She's white with a shepard kind of physique and a lab looking face. For some crazy reason she likes me. So when she hits the shop it's play time.

She'll come out of his truck on the double and charge me like she's going to run me over. The charge and the carrying on is accompanied by a lot of barking. After a bit of tag she'll settle down and roll over on her back for a belly rub.

This confuses Oreo. I think everything confuses Oreo. Not confused like the blond at the Post Office but more like confused from the perspective that the rest of the world is what's off kilter, not Oreo.

You take last night. I got to the shop just as it was dusk. The chickens were on roost and Oreo immediately started calling when she heard Lucy's rattle at the gate. I walked back to the chicken--goat shed to see if they'd been fed. They had. The other goats ran away from their feed when I approached. I opened the pen and Oreo ran out. But she came right back in when I started handling and talking to the chickens.

She seems to think she's a pup I guess. I do know she doesn't show any interest in the other goats. Just about the time I was ready to put her back in Bud showed up and here came Max the Walmart. Oreo lost all interest in me.

Bud likes to explain how to catch Oreo. You call Max.

So here was this white dog running around the place barking like a holy roller preacher on drugs with a goat playing tag and bleating like making noise is part of the game. The dog would get tired of the shadow and turn to face down the goat. Dog wants to bite at the feet of the goat. Goat wants to butt heads. It's almost as funny as watching a couple of kids trying to get the angle of the dangle just right for each one's first kiss.

The other goats watch all of this from a safe distance with the kind of attention any teacher would like to get for five minutes a year from her class. They've never been to a rodeo but they have seen a goat roping or two. And watching Oreo be a dog has got to rate right up there in the entertainment value thing.

We've also got to wether the two baby goats, Kansas and Dakota. Bud's daughter names the goats. I'm not too much on the cutting thing but it's either get cut or become cabrito.

Here's Oreo and Scrapper.
 

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We have Elvis the dog, cause he ain't nuthin' but a hound dog, and then Girl and Sugar, named by my husband as he has no imagination, Salem the cat (black cat) and Havoc the cat because his presence usually creates it. Baby the goat as she was a bottle baby when we got her, and all the other goats named for some type of, as you say physical characteristic.

Now the pigs, Bear and Hercules and then the ladies in alphabetical order to make it easy for us to remember them.....anna..bridget..clementine..daphne..emily..fran..gracie..hannah..ida..jenniferlopez..katie..lily..mama...nan...ophelia...
prissy...queen....roxie...so far. I dont' know what we're going to do when we have more than 26 sows/gilts. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
 
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Harv whats our address, i need to donate a mexican burro and our 2 kiko goats to ya lol. Dad fenced in the 4 acres behind the shop and when i opern the back doors i have 3 spoiled farm animals in the shop and out the front yard with me limping after them. I have several treasure piles behind the shop that are composed of forklifts and other industrial and ag parts. I was taking some vavle off a fork lift and the little billy goat has a game of putting his horns down and pusshin on me till i loose balance or scrath his back. The burrow was fenced in the back yard when it was sick and thinks now when a person comes to the pasture you have to cradle its head and scatch behing his ears. and the next thing is he likes to bite hands. If im propped on a machine and have my mind on what im doin and he ll sneak up on me and bite down gently then it gets harder and harder, ond only quits when he gets his head craddled again. I think alot of times ne of the best pets i had was aCOyote pup i caught that was almost starved to death, and had the mange we got her well and had a good pet but the local game warden made me release her. her after a nosey neighbor complained.
 

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