3/7/2003: Mini bull!
 

http://cellar.org/2003/minibull.jpg

Happy Friday to Sperlock for suggesting this for a Friday image. It's from this Miniature Bull web site.

And no, it's not photoshopping this time -- I'm nearly certain!

Not far from where I grew up there was a miniature horse farm. I mentioned this before but one of my science teachers used the mini horses as an example in a class. He was teaching us genetics, and pointed out that while a lot of people focus on genetic mutation as where evolution gets kicked off, we really have a lot of genetic variation built into us right now.

And enough genetic variation in bulls and horses that, if you really wanted to, you could produce tiny ones in a few generations.

http://cellar.org/2003/minibull2.jpg

Linky linky brokey brokey.

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Since these things aren't good for anything except pets, I wonder if it's a plot by the carpet industry.

Or seat cover makers

Small venue cow plop bingo

Interestingly enough there is a place I drive by coming home from work that supposedly sells miniature horses. Haven't seen any of them, however.

I seem to be in a strange enough mood tonight, wanting to tell this very bad joke:

What do you call a sleeping bull?

A bull dozer.

I haven't even taken my medication yet.

Small Livestock
 

Animals this size are more efficient for small farms, they are far from useless. They don't take as long to mature and harvesting one should render a few weeks worth of meat to throw in the freezer. Being smaller also means their hooves will do less soil damage. They are advocated for use in permaculture
The downside is a karmic/ethical one - it means snuffing out more mammalian sentience for a given amount of meat. Not that this bothers many people...

These bitty-bulls have many uses.

Midget Rodeo just got a lot more viable.

The excitement and joys of livestock farming are now available to people in apartments or with small backyards.

They are also perfect for cheesesteaks. One bull, one roll, one steak.

Also, talk about your niche market ... miniature cow milk. Guaranteed not to contain any bovine growth hormone.

moo.

You've been watching too much jackass

...and they were called mini-moos...

The Big Dwarf Rodeo

I've never seen jackass. I'm out of the demographic. I'm not allowed.

Being Australian, jag, you probably don't know that once you turn 30 in america they take MTV off your cable system. It's replaced at that point by VH1.

When you hit 40, VH1 goes, and you have Lifetime and The Food Network.

Big Dwarf Rodeo, and Cow Plop Bingo, for that matter, would be excellent names for rock bands!

How about the Cellar Orchestra?

Does anyone play? I'm OK with a harmonica and my vocal cords are Rod Stewartish (due to 30 years of smoking)

With today technology we don't even have to be together. This could be interesting.

Anyone have sound mix software?

"Big Dwarf Rodeo" is actually the name of a Reverend Horton Heat song, from his first album.

I don't do well on instruments, but I do sing/scream/yell/croon/whatever. I still have my mic and Gorilla amp somewhere around here.