These 5 Farm Animals Remind Us a Lot of Our Beer Buddies

Recently, we wrote about a Shetland pony named Mocha who was accused of breaking into a pub in Gravesend, near London, England, and getting allegedly drunk. (We maintain Mocha’s innocence.)

It turns out that giving farm animals a taste of beer isn’t terribly unusual. As we mentioned in Mocha’s story, horses seems to enjoy a cold one or two since the hops and wheat are similar to their daily diet. And it’d take a lot of lager to get an equine drunk, thanks to their size and ability to metabolize alcohol. It’s been rumored that Kobe and Wagyu cows are fed beer to increase their appetites so they’ll put on weight. And pigs, with metabolisms close to that of humans, can get a little tipsy.

We certainly don’t recommend or condone giving animals alcohol of any kind, but Mocha’s story took us down the rabbithole of other animals who’ve sidled up to the bar – and a few themes emerged. Turns out, farm animals are pretty much just like all our drinking buddies: there’s the rowdy one, the mean one, the one who picks fights. From a British bruiser of a duck to a Brazilian chicken who doesn’t like to share, here are five true party animals who’ve made the news.

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You know that friend who gets a dose of liquid courage and decides to talk trash to the biggest guy in the bar? It turns out there’s a duck version of your friend. Last October, a bow tie-wearing, beer-swilling duck named Star was enjoying a pint at his local pub in Chulmleigh, Devon – as he and his human often do – when Star and another patron, a dog, got into it. While the duck got the worst of it, he survived to drink again.

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Here’s the pig version of the guy or gal who becomes a bit too rowdy after a couple of beers and gets the boot from the bar. Last year, a female Vietnamese pot-bellied pig named Frances Bacon was banned from (her owners’) London pub for getting “mean drunk” and headbutting bar patrons. No update on if she’s regained admittance since then.

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Closer to home, a bunch of cows were caught on camera in Boxford, Massachusetts, sneaking beer leftover from an outdoor party, like so many underage teenagers on a tear. The six Dutch belted cows arrived (uninvited) at the tail end of the get-together and proceeded to drink the dregs of beer on a picnic table, until they were busted by cops and led back to their field.

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When is a chicken a hog? When it won’t share its beer. Chickens apparently like knocking back a couple of cold ones from time to time. But you’d better not try to take this Brazilian bird’s brew away.

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A while back, we wrote about a donkey who was reported to have consumed more than 60,000 beers in his lifetime. That, my friend, is a true party animal. Here’s a donkey from down under who loves the lager, which makes sense since many Aussies are enamored with the stuff.