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Nancy Howell

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This was part of an email a friend sent. Thought I'd post it just for grins.

"No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times. Oh go ahead... I'll wait.."

"Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes or shark attacks."

"A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why."

"It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but, not downstairs."

Don't be asking any smart questions like "why would you lead a cow upstairs". Just chuckle a bit and don't tell anyone why you built a staircase in the pasture!
 
It is safer for cows to climb steps than walk up inclined ramps. Far fewer slips/mishaps. That's the way a lot of milking parlors are set up. But the "steps" are a series of platforms that are at least as long as the cow.
 
The Donkey is true for sure, just look at the Jacka&&es in DC.

The Duck quack I have heard before, The scientific community should spend some time investigating that.
 

I've always doubted the "cow can't go downstairs" story since I first head it described as a college prank 50 years ago. Considering the rough, steep places my cows have gone up and down, I still doubt it.

As to the donkeys, does that refer to the USA or world wide? I've never heard of anyone being killed by a donkey, but I suspect it has happened.

KEH
 
I'll still waiting to see somebody lead a cow up a spiral staircase.....

Seriously, the leading a cow downstairs might be technically correct, but when I grew up on a dairy farm, our barn had the cows walking UP three stairs, go into their stall to be milked and then to exit they had to walk DOWN three stairs. I guess three stairs doesn't count as walking completely downstairs, so I'll talk your word on it.
A tornado took out our dairy barn, but we still have the concrete step part if nobody believes me.
 
It is a lot safer for cows to go down a ramp instead of staires. Cows can catch their dewclaws on steps and fall down.
 
They did the paperfolding thing on Mythbusters and it's true - if you take an 8 X 11 sheet of standard writing paper and fold it width then length then width and so on without mechanical help you can only fold it seven times. The eight folder produces more of a "C" shape than anything.
 
The part about cows not being able to climb down steps is not true. I applied for a job milking at a herd in St Johns Mi back 15 years ago and the cows walked up 5 steps to get into a single file 3 Surge parlor, and then walked down 5 steps to get to the return alley. I was amazed that the old guy could get heifers to do it but he milked about 45 cows thru it, so I know that one is false.
 
I can't disagree on anything other than cows going downstairs. A farmer friend had us build cement steps, probably 11 ft down / up and beef cattle go up and down daily without any tado. I used to work for him, and have never heard of any issues. but I sure could find out. I built them fourty years ago so I do not remember the measurments of the steps.

Twenty years ago no one was safe leaving overnight as a donkey made the rounds along with a goat. The goat was tied to your front gate, and the donkey was in your basment when you got home. The donkey would go down, but had to be dragged up the steps. Usualy the gang that put the donkey in the basment was asked to help push it back up----no one ever admited to who did what.
 
Mythbusters managed to fold a sheet of paper 11 times...but it started out as an acre sheet of paper. They had to use a forklift to make the last few folds!
 
I have heard a duck's quack echo on several occasions. That myth is a myth. It is a sound wave, and like any sound wave, it will echo under appropriate conditions.
 
On Johnson Fork Rd in Dearborn County, IN there was a dairy farm on the east side of the road with a pasture on the other side of the road. There was an underpass for the cows with shallow steps on the east side of the road coming out level on the west (creek) side. I think it has since been filled in.
 
The stepped plarforms I referred to are no problem for cows in either direction. I think they're talking about longer staircases designed for people. I think those stairs would be difficult for cows to negotiate, pehaps more so going down.
 
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