There was once a sheep farmer who needed help with the
difficult task of castrating some of his inferior male sheep
to keep them from breeding with the females. He hired a
French guy who didn't speak English, but was a very good
worker.

After the first day, they had successfully castrated 14 sheep
and his French worker was just about to throw away the '
parts', but the sheep farmer yelled, "No! Don't throw those
away! My wife fries them up and we eat them. They're
delicious and we call them 'sheep fries'."

Later that day, the French hired hand came in for supper and
indeed, the 'sheep fries' were tasty.

The next day, they castrated 16 sheep, and the following
evening they all settled down to another supper of 'sheep
fries'. The third day, however, when the sheep farmer came
home, he asked his wife where the French hired hand was.

She said, "You know, it was the weirdest thing! I told him
since there weren't very many 'sheep fries' this evening,
we were also going to have French fries. Then he screamed
and ran like hell."

GOOD ONE!

On large western U.S. sheep ranches hundreds, sometimes thousands, of lambs are castrated every spring. They are put in large pens and funneled through the end one at a time. Since there are so many lambs and they are so small (squirming and bellering like hell, too!) the fastest and the most humane method is the following:
����One holds the lamb's hind legs in one hand, the scrotum is slashed with a knife and since the testicles are very small and slippery the only way to remove them is to suck them out, bite them off and spit the testicles into a pail. The lamb is released and then on to the next and the next and the one after that.
Naturally, in the comotion, some are mistakenly swallowed but most do land in the pail. The testicles are saved for a "Rocky Mountain Oyster" feed at the end of Castration Days. It is a festival event in many western communities.

Isn't the title "Scared Frenchman" redundant?

[ 10-07-2003, 07:31: Message edited by: Fjold ]

To castrate lambs, you need two bricks to slam the testicles to a pulp. It doesn't hurt, that is... if you don't get your thumb caught.

Clacking testicles with two bricks works on camels too. When confronted with an extra-long haul across a dry desert the camels have to be topped off. One waits until his camel is getting a drink, he slips up behind the camel and slams his testicles between two rocks. Up to 14 gallons of water can be safely stored in a camel's lung using this method! Enough for the most arduous treks. (Obscure knowledge is my specialty.)