When the farmer's away, all the animals play, and sing, and dance. Eventually, though, someone has to step in and run things, a responsibility that ends up going to Otis, a carefree cow.

Avelita, a mischievous chick, wants a jukebox.

Mickey Mouse joins a mouse army to battle evil cats.

Mickey leads an 8-piece orchestra (that's counting the bass played by three birds as one) through the most recognizable parts of the Poet and Peasant Overture. The setting, as the title implies, is a barnyard, and some of the instrumentation reflects that (including various animals used as instruments, like a tuned group of piglets whose tails Mickey pulls).

A country orphanage puts on a show with some musicians to save their 4H club from being shut down by greedy politicians.

Mickey runs radio station ICU from his barn. His friends play various musical numbers. A cat wanders in and starts yowling (which sets Pluto, who was listing from his doghouse, off). Mickey puts it out, but it, and several kittens, keep coming back in, playing with the equipment, running through the musicians (chased by a broom-wielding Mickey, who does a great deal of damage himself), and generally making a mess of things.

Test pitch of the 2007 Nickelodeon series Back at the Barnyard.

A Hunky and Spunky animated short.

There is a baby contest going on in the barn, but the rooster and hen haven't hatched their brood yet.

Aesop's Fables Studio version of the animal Olympics.

Mickey and his friends are staging a sort of olympics in a makeshift stadium on his farm. The main event is a sort of quadrathlon, with running, pole vaulting, rowing, and cycling. Mickey gets a late start due to some foul play by Pete, and that's not the only foul play.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 6 March 1936.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 24 December 1937.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 4 May 1939.

Gandy's Baseball team, composed mainly of fowl, takes on another made up of pigs.

Gandy Goose has been studying his mail-order acting kit, and goes to visit his friend, Rudy Rooster, to show off his mimic skills. Rudy is unimpressed as his attention is more on another rooster who is bidding to replace Rudy as the ruler-of-the-roost in the hen-house. He gets Gandy to disguise himself as a fox and raid the hen-house, and Rudy will show up and run him off and be a hero of the hens. But...there is already a real fox in the barnyard and he has no intention of being run of by a rooster.

Fourteen down home beauties compete against each other in some truly thrillin' events.Whether it's the greased pig competition or topless tug-o-war, these gals give it their all to bring home the bacon.

Shenanigans occur in this Aesop's Fables short.

The hilarious hour-long episode follows the bipolar, beer-swilling dog, Barkley, and the Critters, the band he fronts. His rocker menagerie includes a vulture, a snake, a tracksuit-clad paranoid schizophrenic crow, a Buckethead-esque farm boy on harmonica, and a manic- depressive canine drummer.

Fatty tries to catch two "chickens" – one feathered, the other one wearing skirts.