Mystery of the Flying Walenda/Houdini Bull

[Bird]

Reminds me of the movie Cold Mountain:


I despise a flogging rooster. :thumbsup:

I've posted this before, but I was probably 12 years old when we had a big old White Leghorn rooster with long spurs that would attack every time I went out to the barn. Dad thought it was funny, but told me, "You know he's going to jump and bring those feet up to get the spurs forward. Just grab both feet and dip him in the cow's watering trough." So the next day, I did that; dipped him in the water then threw him as far as I could. He hit the ground running. But the next day, he attacked again. I grabbed his feet, pushed him down in the watering trough and stood there watching the bubbles for awhile. Then when I threw him, he just landed in a pile and I thought for sure I'd killed him, and I knew that dad would be furious. (My dad did not believe in spanking children. He believed in just beatin' the you know what out of'em.). But after several seconds that rooster started flopping around on the ground like his head had been pulled off, then he finally got to his feet and staggered off, falling occasionally. He fully recovered, for which I was thankful, and he got out of the way when he saw me coming after that.

 

[Soundguy]

I have a cochin rooster that will attack me any time and every time I go into the pin. I have hit that rooster with a shovel before.. though I killed it... thing still attacks me..

on the other hand I had a leghorn hit me once inthe back.. I had bent down to collect eggs and he got me good. his spur broke off ! in my back.. was about as big a round as a pencil and about 1.25" long! went to the house.. had the wife pull it out with tweezers.. thing was nasty ! I went to the doc and got some antibiotics and more cleaning.. no issues from it...

PS.. rooster is um.. no longer with us..

soundguy

 

[Bird]

I had to go to google to see what a cochin rooster is. Baby chicks used to be delivered by the U.S. Post Office so when they arrived at the destination Post Office, they had to be delivered within a certain time, or of course they'd die. So if the Post Office could not contact the recipient very quickly, the local Postmaster could sell the chicks cheap to get rid of them. And that's where Dad got a bunch of baby chicks cheap every year. They were most commonly White Leghorns, but some years we had Rhode Island Reds and at least once even domineckers.

 

[texasjohn]

Soundguy, I think it's safe to say that you had figured out that that animal had that "certain" look in its eye, leading you to chain the gate at both ends...that's reading cattle:thumbsup:

 

[Mace Canute]

When I was a little kid about 5 - 6 we had a good sized Leghorn rooster that would always take after me whenever I went out into the yard one summer. To me at that age he looked huge! Dad came to the rescue and whittled a wood plug "bullet" for my popgun and stuck a good sized needle in it and told me to shoot him the next time he came at me. I loaded up and went on safari! The rooster saw me...I saw him and took aim. When that big white bird got close enough that I was sure I could hit him, I let him have it! Be damned if I didn't hit him too! That was the last of his bothering me!

This is what my old popgun looked like.

 

[Redgoatea]

Didn't see it mentioned but it may have been and I missed it. According to an OSHA statistic posted in Hobby Farms a few months ago the No. 1 killer of people on farms always has been and still is bulls.

 

[texasjohn]

I didn't find the reference you mention, but did find the following:

From N.C. Department of Labor
Occupational Safety and Health Division (an excellent list of farm injury sources and prevention techniques) this comment:

Farm animals produce few traumatic injuries and fewer deaths compared to most of the hazards previously discussed. Nevertheless, according to national figures, they are the cause of about one out of eight farm injuries. Contact injuries include being kicked, stepped on, fallen on, butted and crushed against objects.

And from U.S. Department of Labor
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Fact Sheet No. OSHA 91-39 this comment:

[SIZE=+1]General Statistics of Farm Accidents[/SIZE]
According to "Accident Facts " these are the statistics for farms:

• Tractor accidents on farms cause the highest number of fatalities with tractor overturns accounting for 44 percent of all tractor fatalities.
• Fruit farms have the highest work injury rate among various specified agricultural operations (233 injuries per million hours of exposure). The 1989 rate for all farms is 20.0 compared with 4.2 for all industry.
• Males have a higher injury rate than females and hired workers have higher injury rates than family members.

Am sure there are more recent statistics, but also am sure that these are still problem areas out there

 

[Redgoatea]

See I thought it would be tractors as well. I know mine has tried to kill me a few times. I'll find the magazine and get the date and exact article. It would be nice to have the correct info when they print stuff.

 

[Soundguy]

Soundguy, I think it's safe to say that you had figured out that that animal had that "certain" look in its eye, leading you to chain the gate at both ends...that's reading cattle:thumbsup:

yep.. that one found ways to get in trouble...

soundguy