Ozzie the rooster

Sneaky Old Bugger.

Whitey was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young
pullet layers and eight or ten roosters,
whose job was to fertilize the eggs. Whitey kept records
and any rooster that didn’t perform went into the soup pot and was
replaced. That took an awful lot of Whitey’s time so Whitey got a set of
tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different
tone so Whitey could tell from a distance which rooster was performing.
Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report simply by
listening to the bells.

Whitey’s favourite rooster was old Ozzie, being from a very fine
specimen he was, too. But, on this particular morning, Whitey noticed
old Ozzie’s bell hadn’t rung at all!

Whitey went to investigate. The other roosters were
chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the
roosters coming, would run for cover.

BUT, to Whitey’s amazement, Ozzie had his bell in his
beak, so it couldn’t ring. He’d sneak up on a pullet, do
his job and walk on to the next one.

Whitey was so proud of Ozzie, he entered him in the
county fair… and… Ozzie became an overnight sensation
among the judges.

The result…

The judges not only awarded Ozzie the “No Bell Piece Prize”
but they also awarded him the “Pulletsurprise” as well.