Can roosters win prizes

Answer 1

Of course they can. Show birds at club meets and 4H clubs offer great opportunities to win ribbons and trophies.

Here is one story.

James the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had a couple of

hundred young layers (hens), called 'pullets', and ten roosters, whose

job it was to fertilize the eggs.

He 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 a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell

had a different tone so James 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.

His favorite rooster was old Alek, a very fine specimen he

was, too. But on this particular morning James noticed old Alek's bell

hadn't rung at all! He 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 James's amazement, old Alek 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. James was so proud of of Alek, James entered him in the local

County Fair and Alek became an overnight sensation among the

judges.

The result...The judges not only awarded Alek the No Bell Piece

Prize but they awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well.

Clearly Alek was a politician in the making: who else but a

politician 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.