BULLY-BULLY

FACTS ABOUT COWS AND BULLS:

Many states observe Cow Appreciation Day - usually in July.

Angus cattle breed of black polled (hornless) beef cattle, originated in Scotland and introduced in 1873 to the United States.

It's Maryann here. OK, so when I used to drive the back roads into town I saw this bull. At first I thought it was a huge cow, but I saw no utters. He had other parts dangling though. But I was shocked and dumbfounded. Ya see, growing up in a big city, one really doesn't study agriculture, therefore I never knew this about cows and bulls.(wait for it) I always thought that only bulls had horns and this was one of the ways you could tell a cow from a bull. (OK, I know it's like totally Lisa Douglas philosophy...but never-the-less, very true). I was 40 years old before I knew the truth about cows and bulls.

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Cows can also have horns....OK, my Georgia farming friends, don't laugh too hard...I know that there are other city girls like me that don't know this. The farmers burn them off when the cows are small. Well, Bully-Bully (whom I affectionately named), has no horns...hence my confusion. Bully-Bully is BIG and GEORGOUS. I walk up to the barbed wire fence (like 1 string of wire) and talk to him. He would kill me in a blink of his big brown eye, but he loves me. So, when I pass his farm, I beep my horn and yell, "Bully-Bully, I love you." My mother affectionately calls him her next son-in-law......NOT gonna happen mom- I do love animals but not in that "stump-broke" way.....besides, I am sure that everyone knows that I am a commitment-a-phobe.