Farming
Chicken Shaming
I hadn't realized that chickens were capable of deviant behavior of this kind. I mean, an entire mouse? Chickens eat mice?More at Chicken Hugs.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 01, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Farming
Chicken’s Symphony
Not bad, for a chicken.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Feb 11, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Farming, Music
Manure Spreader Weather Vane
Some years ago, Bernard Hanson of Wrenshall, Minnesota turned an old horse-drawn manure spreader into a giant weather vane. I guess, because, why not.He says, "It takes only a slight gust of wind to spin the spreader around so it faces into the wind."
I was curious whether the manure spreader weather vane could be seen on Google Street View, but where Hanson lives is so out-of-the-way that the Google Car hasn't got there yet. Though there is a satellite view.
via Farm Show
Posted By: Alex - Fri Feb 19, 2016 -
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Category: Farming
Cattle Delivery Via Motorcycle
I really wish this practice had caught on, for I would be delighted to be driving down a highway and see such a sight.
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 28, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Farming, Inventions, 1920s, Motorcycles
Exploding Chickens
Spontaneously exploding chickens startle German farmer.
The Ogden Standard - Nov 17, 1950
LUNEBERG, Germany, Nov 17 (UP) — An excited farmer told police today that some of his chickens "exploded with a loud bang while running across the barnyard."
An investigation showed that the chickens ate bits of carbide left behind by allied soldiers during fall maneuvers, later drank some water and the resulting gas blew them to bits.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jul 01, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Farming, Explosives, 1950s
2015 North American Manure Expo
Not just a manure expo, but the 13th annual manure expo. Also, they held a slogan contest. I have no doubt that our community here on WU can come up with some interesting slogans. Slogans better than the ones at the link I bet. How about it guys?
Posted By: Alex - Sun Apr 26, 2015 -
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Category: Agriculture, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Farming
The Popular Pickle
There is so much to love about this video, from the whimsical music which makes it seem as if the cucumbers are just going on holiday, instead of being wrenched from their happy fields and families, then sliced and seasoned for consumption by monstrous hairless apes, to the very phrase "pickle packer." The one omission, understandable in light of 1950s' reticence, is no mention of the cucumber as sex toy.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 10, 2015 -
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Category: Regionalism, Advertising, Industry, Factories and Manufacturing, Farming, Vegetables, Pickles, 1950s
The hen that laid an egg shaped like a light bulb
Rural electrification brought many benefits. But one of its stranger effects occurred on the Kentucky farm of Albert Clark in 1939. One of his hens stared and stared at the new light bulb hanging in the hen house, as if hypnotized by it. Then she laid an egg shaped like a light bulb. Clark sent the egg to the Rural Electrification Administration in D.C. as proof of what had occurred. This was big news in 1939.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Feb 10, 2015 -
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Category: Farming, Eggs, 1930s
The Pig Swing
Alas, today's factory farming of pork precludes such luxury treatment.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 27, 2014 -
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Category: Animals, Farming, Technology, 1960s
Gay’s Lion Farm
For almost 20 years, the only commercial lion breeding facility (and tourist attraction) "in the world."
The Wikipedia entry.
Article from 1926.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 26, 2014 -
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Category: Animals, Farming, Sightseeing, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
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