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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Jacob the rooster

Trevor the farmer was in the fertilised egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), 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.
 
It took an awful lot of his time so he bought a set of tiny bells and  attached them to his roosters.
 
Each bell had a different tone so Trevor could tell from a distance, which 
rooster was performing.
 
Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report simply by  listening to the bells.
 
The farmer's favourite rooster was old Jacob, and a very fine specimen he
was too.
 
But on this particular morning Trevor noticed that old Jacob's bell hadn't rung  at all!
 
Trevor 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 Trevor's amazement, Jacob had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next  one.
 
Trevor was so proud of Jacob, he entered him in the Polokwane Country Fair and Jacob became an overnight sensation among the judges.
  
The result was the judges not only awarded Jacob the No Bell Piece Prize but  they also awarded him the Pullet Surprise as well.
 
Clearly Jacob was a Pulletician in the making: Who else but a Pulletician  could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our  planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention.
 
Do you perhaps know of a Pulletician called Jacob?
 
Thanks Heidi

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