Get UP in the MORNIN'! You're living on a farm so GET UP!

[Happy Chooks]

I'm usually wide awake at 6AM. I occasionally will sleep until 7, but it's really rare.

I do all the chicken chores, which is fine with me. But I do have an automatic door opener which helps a lot. I don't have to go let them out.

 

[Funky Feathers]

Go ahead, call me lazy, but I go to bed after midnite and get up after noon. The chores get done at the same time (1pm) every day, so the animals are used to it.

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[Up-the-Creek]

Honestly this is something that bugs me,....some people for some reason think that because you have animals you have to get up at the crack of dawn to feed,.....I personally think animals get used to whatever they get. If you feed at 6 a.m. good for you,..if you feed at noon,...well good for you. Animals adapt to whatever they get. I feed in the mornings,...my neighbor feeds in the evenings. To each his own,...

 

[redhen]

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Yep.. if hubby is working..(hes in sheet metal work.. so jobs are off and on..).. anyways.. when hes working..the animals get fed and let out between 5-6 a.m.....
if hes laid off... they get fed when he wakes up. Anywhere from 7a.m. to noon... they're still alive.

 

[herfrds]

Ok I admit it I'm sleeping in until 9-10am, but I am also staying up checking cows til 3-4am. My body clock starts going whacky on me around the first of Febuary. i start staying awake longer at night and sleeping later in the morning. DH doesn't say anything because he knows he can go to sleep and unless it is some thing really terrible happening he sleeps the night through getting up at 6am to go check cows til I get up.
It will straighten out again once calving is done.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

I do all the work around the house, inside and out. Except that we recently have started to have our oldest son clean baths once a week and our youngest changes the towels and such at the same time.

Period.

This is the way it is. We have a strict division of labor. DH fixes things when they are broken. I do maintenance. I wake up at daybreak, and go to bed when I get tired. He sleeps when he wants.

My advice is: if you are missing sleep, then absolutely sleep. Downsize or do whatever you need to do to get more rest.

 

[Mattemma]

My dh stays up late when home and sleeps in. I get up early and do what needs to be done.My only hassle is dh likes me to serve meals,and I do not want to stop what I am doing to run inside and cook. Sometimes I do,but if I am cleaning the coop or something then dh will just have to get his own late breakfast!

I used to go in early to the hens,but now I will wait till later in the am.If they are well stocked I might not go to them till the afternoon.

Whatever issues you are having with a SO make sure you express them. Holding things in will get you crabby,and before you know it you are slamming stuff and giving off some seriously negative vibes.

 

[verity]

Such an interesting topic -- I am enjoying all the responses --

*I* believe that the 'secret' to a long-and-happy marriage/relationship is NOT seeing each other in the morning -- whatever time 'morning' is --

We are 'old' and managed to have careers, raise children, and travel a bit -- and 'he' learned a long time ago (think honeymoon) to 'let sleeping dogs lie'

Most everything gets done -- and we can 'meet for coffee' mid-afternoon if we are so inclined --

works for us!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Does he have, and set, an alarm clock?

 

[Rozzie]

What kind of creatures do you have that it is mandatory that they have such an early feeding? I can see this being an issue, perhaps, if you have dairy cattle. It might be an issue if you are bottle feeding baby critters (the issue regarding time of last feeding and time of first feeding of the day might come into play here). Otherwise? The critters will adjust to eating an hour or two later. It really won't harm them.

So, they might run out of feed for an hour or two. Is that really going to hurt them all that much? An hour or two a day without food isn't going to hurt anything I can think of (with the possible exception of some baby animals, perhaps...)

If someone tried to force me to get up early in the mornings, I'd be miserable. My alarm was set for 8 am this morning. The "only" reason it was set for that early was because I needed to check my puppy's surgical site in case he had to go to the vet this morning again. (They are only open a half day today so I would not have long to take him in!) I've managed to establish a career where I only rarely have to crawl out of bed before 8. I could even manage to sleep until 9 but then my mornings are more rushed than I like...

I worked second shift in my youth. It "reset" my body clock somehow and I simply don't do mornings. You do NOT want to be around me until I've had 3 cups of coffee and my allergy meds...