Farm Animal Identification (Johnson City: move to, horses, dinner)

[alleycat]

They're kind of weird looking things too. Each one is different.

[LauraC]

Originally Posted by jmarkey

Here's a site with great pictures of different goat breeds:

Breeds of Livestock - Goat Breeds

I was stumped on a lot of them, but wondered if there weren't some angoras in there.

I think the Beefalo ID is correct. I never had their meat, but if you ever get a chance to have buffalo meat, try it. It's incredibly tender. Two states that I lived in had buffalo ranches and buying meat from them was always a treat.

The ones with the beards, I recognized as goats. I'm thinking the ones with sheep coats and curly horns are rams.

For that big hunk of walking brown I was thinking bison because of the shape of his head but that didn't seem logical since I take it that they are not likely to be on farmland. Since I never heard of a beefalo, I would have never guessed that.

But when I looked up "bison" this caught my attention:

"Bison have poor eyesight, but have acute hearing and an excellent sense of smell. "

I was pretty far away from that animal (used camera zoom on full) but everytime I closed the car door, he turned his head and looked up at me before he went back to chewing. I thought, "Man that cowthing can hear really well."

It is Christmas in Old Appalachia time beginning next week though December 24. I love that place and will be back there to take some photos for the Holiday/Seasons Photos Thread.

I had stopped there yesterday afternoon to do a little Christmas shopping in their gift shop. I bought all kinds of jelly (muscadine, moonshine, huckleberry, elderberry, plum, etc.) that come from a farm in Gatlinburg and kettle candy (root beer, sassafras, horehound, choke cherry, etc.) that come from Crossville among other Tennessee made items.

Meanwhile, the goats, sheep, peacocks, birds and chickens were running around in the parking lot area or by the fence in front of the museum. I love this little furball chickens (someone previously told me they are called silkies).

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[alleycat]

By the way, that upturned pot in the background is an old lard rendering pot that they used when they were butchering hogs. People turn them into flower pots these days. My mother has one planted in petunias.

I think Granny Clampett used it for washing clothes too. With her special lye soap. Oh, I bet the clothes were fun to wear after that.

[AlisonL]

Weu sed to have Silkie chickens. I love them, very friendly and the hens are great mothers. Our first pair was named Colonel Sanders and Mrs. Dash.
If you want some comical looking chickens, check out Frizzles. Talk about a bad hair, umm feather, day. LOL

[AlisonL]

Wait til you see Scottish Highland cattle. Hard to tell which end is which with all their long hair. Lets hope that Phyll doesn't encounter one.

[alleycat]

Originally Posted by AlisonL

Wait til you see Scottish Highland cattle. Hard to tell which end is which with all their long hair. Lets hope that Phyll doesn't encounter one.

Are those the ones with tartan hides?

[Tinman313]

Originally Posted by LauraC

No, but I guess there is a first for everything. Are these zebras you can put a saddle on?

Here's one

[LauraC]

[quote=Tinman313;2129032]Here's one

Why would you cross a zebra with a horse? Do you improve something by doing it? You know, is the combo stronger or faster? It sure is uglier.

On that same note:

Q: Why do cows need a belt?

A: It's harder to genetically engineer suspenders.

[alleycat]

[quote=LauraC;2129423]

Originally Posted by Tinman313

Here's one

Why would you cross a zebra with a horse? Do you improve something by doing it? You know, is the combo stronger or faster? It sure is uglier.

Oh, that's one of the pretty ones. You ought to see some of them. I saw a photo of one that looked like the front half of a zebra sewn onto the back end of a brown horse.

[Tinman313]

[quote=LauraC;2129423]

Originally Posted by Tinman313

Here's one

Why would you cross a zebra with a horse? Do you improve something by doing it? You know, is the combo stronger or faster? It sure is uglier.

On that same note:

Q: Why do cows need a belt?

A: It's harder to genetically engineer suspenders.

That utterly funny........