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Thursday, June 16, 2005

[nilesfunnies] Fw: Egg Business

Roy the farmer was in the fertilised egg business. He had several
hundred young (hens) layers, called pullets, and eight or ten roosters,
whose job was to fertilise the eggs.

The farmer kept records, and any rooster that didn't perform went into
the soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot of his time so he
bought sets of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell
ringing told him how they were performing.
So, now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report
simply by listening to the bells.

The farmers favourite rooster was old Butch, a very fine specimen he
was, too.
But on this particular morning Roy noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung
at all.

Roy went to investigate. The other roosters were chasing pullets,
bells-a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run
for cover.

BUT, to Farmer Roy 's amazement, Butch had his bell in his beak, so it
couldn't ring.
He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and proceed to the next one.
Roy was so proud of Butch, he entered him in the county fair, where
Butch became an overnight sensation among the judges.

The result: The judges not only awarded Butch the "No Bell Piece Prize"
..............................
but they also awarded him the "Pulletsurprise" as well.

Pete Mc

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