Mis fotos

Gallina con sus pollitos (Her and her chicks, by  barloventomagico, in flickr

A burro muerto, cebada al rabo = To donkey died, barley to the tail

It is so used by the spanish writer, Camilo José Cela, in his book "El gallego y su cuadrilla", in order to emphasize the uselessness of wanting to remedy something when the opportunity has passed.Almost, almost like the Biscayan from the short story, who, listening to the chiken to chirp into the egg that he was sucking in, exclaimed: "¡Tarde, piache!" =  "Late, piache!".