Pigs flew

[wilagro]

Nice of you to share those great pictures of your "trip of a lifetime"...thanks.

[grassfarmer]

Hey Kato I hope this wasn't your doing!!

"ALLEGATIONS OF skullduggery at the Royal Highland Show – especially in the dairy cattle lines – have been revealed to The Scottish Farmer.

The glueing of hair onto the backs of Holstein cows to give the impression of an absolute straight topline was evident – maybe even widespread – with one exhibitor heard to comment as he was fixing on false hair: “I can’t beat them, so I have to join them.”

The practice of ‘doctoring’ animals to win top prizes at agricultural shows has been going on for years, but it now appears to be getting more sophisticated. Specialist ‘cattle fitters’ are now part and parcel of the show scene, especially at the major events.

In another Holstein stall at the Highland, one such fitter was seen openly with a plastic bag full of hair, fixing individual strands and small groups of hair onto a topline.

A Holstein UK society official later remarked: “This is pure, blatant cheating. This is a practice which has come in from Canada and must be stopped.”"

[kato]

Ha! That's hilarious! I thought it was the Americans job to blame Canada for everything. LOL

They weren't showing Holsteins the day we were there, so I guess we missed the excitement.

If a bit of glue and some extra hair was all the skullduggery that went on in the show cattle business, then there wouldn't be much to worry about would there? Now that I think of it, I wonder if the judges had any "extra" hair stuck to the top of their heads too???