Life Lessons Learned from the Barnyard

by B. Dear

• You will always be dependent on others for your food, water, shelter as long as you are inside the fence line.

• Revenge is best served at 3am when the farmer is sleeping.

• If you’re loud, annoying, and pushy you get fed first.

• Other animals in the pen will try to hurt you. All the time. Sometimes because they want your food. Sometimes, just because they feel like it.

• It is better to be a horse than a chicken.

• Everyone in the pen is your friend when it gets really cold outside.

• Rotten stuff produces a lot of heat.

• Six goats beat one dog.

• The other animals have needs too. They’ll let you know what they are when they deny you of yours.

• All hens look pretty good to a rooster.

• Be careful with your eggs or you'll lose them.