Disgusting Country Pasttimes (Re: Taking the Cow by the Horns)

Steven Maas (CUTR) maas at cutr.eng.usf.edu
Tue Jun 17 06:44:26 CDT 1997


john wells wrote (regarding cow dehorning):
> 
> Yuck! Thank God I'm a City Boy!
> -- Never been there. Never done THAT!

That ain't nuthin--Errol Flynn's rather fun autobiography (_My Wicked
Wicked Ways_) describes his job on a New Zealand sheep ranch as a young
man where he claims he had to castrate lambs with his teeth. 




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