An old favorite of mine
An old farmer decides that it was time to get a new rooster for his hens since the old was getting up there in years. He picked one up a fine younf one from the town market and brought him back home. The first thing the new rooster does is head straight for the barn, and struts right up to the old rooster. “Listen here, old man, I’m the new game in town, prepare to step down, all these hens now belong to me for whatever use I see fit.” The old rooster puts his head down and says, “I understand how it works, I was the new strapping young rooster a long time ago. I ask only one thing, the older hen in the far corner of the barn… we’ve become quite fond of each other through the years. Please leave me her to live out my days with.”
The new rooster took a few steps forward and said, “Maybe you didn’t hear me old timer, every one of these birds is mine now. No exceptions. Get lost.”
The old rooster fumbling for words, is struck with an idea and humbly asks if a challenge could be arranged in which if he were to win, he would still get to keep his old flame.
The new rooster with all the air of arrogance laughs and asks, “Pray tell what could you could offer in competition against I?”
Before the old rooster could even finish his proposal of a simple race around the big chicken barn, the new rooster broken down in hysterical laughter. “How could you even imagine this request of yours be fair old man?” The old rooster contorted, “If you think you need more of a challenge against me in front of your new flock, why not give me a starting lead.” The new rooster not only agreed to this laughable farce, but told the elderly cock to take all the lead he thought he needed. The challenge was agreed to and they exited the barn in watch of the now excited nesting hens.
The old bird took his lead a quarter length from the start and the old hen began the countdown. All eyes on their old figurehead, no one saw the new rooster take his early start on 2 but nonetheless the race was underway. By the time the old roster had finally reached the first corner of the barn, the new rooster had breached the once sizeable gap down to half. Looking back just before completing the second side, the old tiring rooster could see his nemesis only a few feet off, crazy with delight on his advance almost having him cinched for the win. As they rounded the second corner the farmer and his neighbor were coming through the barnyard now alert to some unseen commotion. The racing birds now came into view with the old rooster pushing everything he had in a failing effort to keep his lead. Before the neighbor finished his astonished question into what in the Sam Hell was going on, the farmer’s shot gun blast interrupted all happenings and to his added amazement, he saw the farmer’s new rooster fall dead feathers still in chase. “What the Hell Jasper?!?! Isn’t that new rooster you just bought?!?”
“Ayup,” replied a cool and calm Jasper.
“Then why in tarnation did you just lay ‘em down??”
“Well, Clyde, I don’t profess to know what it’s all comin’to, but I’ll be damned if that ain’t the third gay rooster I’ve bought this month.”