The Green Cheerio

No, it's not Spiderman's new arch enemy, and no, it's not a new Cheerio flavor... It is, however, the worst fear of young cattle, sheep and goats everywhere. Tonight this menace arrived at our farm and our two young angora bucklings fell victim to the Green Cheerio's strangulating grip. You see, on the farm, the green cherio is not crunchy, but elastic and when stretched out, placed over the gonads, and released, it cuts off circulation to that sensitive organ and cuts off the blood supply until the buggers fall right off.
Why would we do this to the poor little guys? Well, it all comes down to the birds and the bees...to keep it brief, male animals don't have any sense when it comes to their own mothers, and will do what comes...naturally to them. Also, it only takes one male to "take care" of an entire (small) herd. Both those reasons mean that at this time, we have no need to raise a fully intact male animal. 100 Green cheerios cost $0.99, so the math was pretty easy.
I figured it would really get nasty once the bands went on, but the little guys didn't seem to mind too much. This should really save us some trouble down the road. It really is too bad that our first two angora kids were both bucks. What do we have to do to get some nannies around here? There is one angora mama that may still be pregnant, so we have our fingers crossed. Other than that, we have found a friend who has a "registered" angora buck that they are going to give us, so that should solve the problem that we currently have (a lack of intact male angoras on the farm.)