"18 turkeys. 29 geese. 35 ducks. 122 fowls. 87 chickens"

NNN, when me old grandma would tell me to go feed the fowls, when I would get to the pen I would find nothing but chickens. Before we can have a deep and meaningful discussion on this, could you please firstly explain the difference between fowls and chickens?
The rest of the barnyard collection you mentioned I am rather clued up on, having one of those little ABC books on the subject, so no explanation of differences is necessary, well not for me, maybe for others.

In my little ABC book it did say 'C' is for Chicken, but alas no joy at the letter 'F', it said 'F' is for Fox! Now having some experience with both chickens and foxes, I say with some authority a chicken is not a fox, but is it a fowl?

Over to you.

What's the difference between a hog and a pig?

Gamefowl, landfowl, Waterfowl, all are poultry?

The difference between a hog and a pig?

Size and age mostly.

A hog is an old big swine. A pig is a young smaller swine.

Poultry! The dickens you say Foxy... now... a chicken can be a poultry, and a fowl can be a poultry, but can a chicken be a fowl. or a fowl be a chicken? Why did NNN separate the fowls from the chickens. I believe you should only separate the sheep from the goats.

Toni, we have been discussing the pigs and hogs in Canberra and their snouts in the trough on another thread. Do pigs and hogs wear suits?

Foxy, when I played footy, we had Fat Mick in the front row, whenever Fats got the ball he wouldn't pass it and get tackled, the other kids would yell.. "FATS YOU HOG!" That is another interesting fact about hogs, they don't pass the ball when they play footy!

Nick,

In your inimitable way, (I think), and laden with so much impenetrable sarcasm as to drown your argument, I think you're suggesting an Aboriginal Republic. Is that right ?

Assuming that the Australian people would vote for such a move - and I'm sure there are many who would like to see Indigenous radicals all comfortably and permanently housed at Yalata or Papunya or Wadeye or Doomadgee - there are a few undecided issues:

* 80 % of the Indigenous population lives in large towns and cities. Would they be forcibly moved ? Of course, like you, they can move any time now if they wished, so the fact that they don't, does suggest that they are not willing to spend their lives at the sorts of places mentioned above; nor would their skills be of much use; nor would they be welcomed; yes, seriously.

* where would it be ? Presumably, in areas of 'predominantly Indigenous population', otherwise, in a presumably democratic Indigenous republic, non-Indigenous people could out-number and out-vote Indigenous people and run the place. What am I saying, they would be running the place anyway.

* what economic base would it have (sorry, that the Marxist in me) ? We would be talking about the most barren, dysfunctional, ghastly parts of the Indigenous geography. Currently, that strip of country, mostly desert, has no economic base, or economic anything.

* would the eighty thousand or so, across a million square kilometres, have to police themselves ? Would customary law in relation to, say, child marriage and wife-beating, be enforced ? Would spearing be brought back as a punishment ?

* why the hell should Canberra, i.e. the rest of Australia, fund it ? You want it, you may get it, but you fund it. That raises a crucial issue: how many would be alive after a month without welfare ?

This is Apartheid, a prescription for genocide, pure and simple,

Joe

//The difference between a hog and a pig?

Size and age mostly.

A hog is an old big swine. A pig is a young smaller swine.//

Allow me to revise my question: what is the difference 'twixt pig, hog, swine and sus scrofa domesticus?

//Toni, we have been discussing the pigs and hogs in Canberra and their snouts in the trough on another thread. Do pigs and hogs wear suits?//

The Third Commandment from Animal Farm is 'no animal shall wear clothes'.

*SPOILER ALERT*

But the pigs, and possibly the hogs, perhaps even the swine - do wear suits. Maybe they escaped from Animal Farm and took up residence in our Parliament. It would explain a lot.

I don't know how many of our politicians have read Animal Farm. Probably most of them think it's too long, with too many big words. Maybe if a few more of them were sufficiently literate to read it, and properly understood what it has to say about the corrupting influence of power, they wouldn't be such gross, sweaty pigs gorging themselves on the taxpayer's hard-earned.