Butch the Rooster

A friend sent me the following joke...

 

Old Mikey the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called "pullets", and ten roosters, whose job it was to fertilize the eggs (for you city folks).

 

The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn't perform went into the soup pot and was replaced.
That record keepin' took an awful lot of his time, so he bought a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters.  Each bell had a different tone so Old Mikey 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.  The farmer's favorite rooster was old Butch, and a very fine specimen he was, too.

 

But on this particular morning Old Mikey noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all! Old Mikey went to investigate.

 

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

 

But to Farmer Mikey's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. He would sneak up on a pullet, do his job and, walk on to the next one.

 

Old Mikey was so proud of Butch, he entered him in the Renfrew County Fair and Butch became an overnight sensation among the judges.

 

The result... The judges not only awarded old Butch the No Bell Piece Prize but they also awarded him the Pullet-surprise as well.

 

Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making: Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention?