Minnesota!

[scandiafowl]

I dont want to toot my own horn or anything but I "had" a mole problem in my yard until tonight! I had killed two in a week with one of those noose traps, but the overcast evening gave me the opportunity to kill them with a shovel and a garden hoe. I sat out with a case of cheep beer on a lawn chair and binoculars and killed four of those little SOB's! Now I'm drunk and my yard is airated. 

I'm having a vision of you with a spade and a can of PBR chasing moles.
My eyes are teared up from the skunk smell...

 

[scandiafowl]

If I got Guineas it would be for the sole purpose of front line predator food. those things are almost as stupid as geese. But at least geese have size to their advantage. 

Doesn't Jack Daniels use Geese as an intruder alert?

 

[Cyrus83]

I'm having a vision of you with a spade and a can of PBR chasing moles.
My eyes are teared up from the skunk smell...

you cant chase them, they feel the ground vibration. You have to tip-toe up bare foot and closely watch the ground for movement and then SMASH!!!

 

[duluthralphie]

No, you're not the only ones and our family also called it a potato fork. Do you know what a bale carrier is?


I think you should add more farmer questions to your quiz (that way I might score a bit more than 1- maybe take out some of the hunting and fishing ones). Questions like:
Have you every gone to town with poop on your clothes?
Have you ever gotten you clothes caught on a barb wire fence. Or rolled through a cow pie while rolling under said fence?
Have you ever stepped in a warm cowpie on a cold morning just to warm your feet up?
Do you truly understand the saying "running around like a chicken with it's head cut off"? Have you seen it?
Have you ever chopped off a chicken's (or other poultry) head?
Do you know what the word "mucked" means and have you ever done it?


Can't think of any more right now but there must be a hundred or more out there.

You should make a farmer test!

Have you ever played Cow pie toss?
Do you know what it means to checking wire is for corn?
Why check corn?

BTW I have a bale carrier in my woodshed, the barn burned down 10 years ago.
Have you ever pulled a calf?
Do you know what that means?

Minnie could add to this list she is old farm kid too.

What is a witness tree?

Have you ever dehorned cattle?
How do you milk a 3 teated cow? (BTW I hate the clean word Teat, we never used that on our farm)

Have you ever used a dump rake?
Hay loader?

Why are IH tractors superior to Green ones? ( easy question)
What does row crop tractor mean?

Approximately how many bales went on a hayrack?

Where was a Minnesota manure spreader made?

When the baler miss ties a bale what do you do?

What does a hay conditioner do?

Why do you not feed wet clover to bovines?

Have you ever put your arm up a cows butt?

How many days after a cow freshens do you dump/or use on the farm the cows milk?

What happens when you get your "city" cousin to grab or pee on an electric fence?

What is surge famous for?

What was a hammermill used for?

What is swatting?

Bantiesrule some suggestion for the " I am a farmer test"

 

[duluthralphie]

you cant chase them, they feel the ground vibration. You have to tip-toe up bare foot and closely watch the ground for movement and then SMASH!!!

OK you are now the new head redneck, I bow to you.

 

[duluthralphie]

I also hear they are quite edible

I have my two remaining ones from last year on death row, I am fattening them up and they will get the honor of being the first birds to use my whizbang cleaner when I get it made.




I have locked all my birds up, I lost two again today, "the Hussy" and a baby chick with the turkey hen. Everything is in lock down, I have the creamettes in one coop the rest in the other. I may have to set a guinea out as bait and use a predator call to see what comes in..

Cyrus I need you, you are better at this than me, I can tell.

 

[The BlanchRanch]

Quote: Love the velvet Elvis. I don't know where I would hang one if I had one though. We have a well-known local artist that will make changes to velvet canvas by adding himself in the work. I don't know how he does it, but I would hang one of those.

You have to tip-toe up bare foot and closely watch the ground for movement and then SMASH!!!

Ha. That will keep me smiling all day. Barefoot, PBR in hand, SMASH!!

 

[cottonlouie]

I love chickens.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

I love chickens.

I love your chickens too. 2nd from the top! Om goodness.

Farmers test would be good. I wouldn't fair as well due to being removed at the ripe age of 9, prejudice against green machinery. I got to pull a calf when I was 25 though at my good friend!s ranch in Montana. Help load 80 lb bales then leaf them off to the cattle out in the pasture.

Learned to drive Dads Chevy p/u when I was 6. He wanted to pick up the bales that had spilled over the racked wagon. So he walked behind while I drive slowly to the bales. Chased by a hariford momma when I was young trying to pet her calf. No rodeo clown to help me out.

I just ran down to the coop in my red tshirt and underwear. Tootsie just looooves that. Not.

Ralphie I can't believe the hussy is gone. Oh no! What do you think you have there?

 

[FoxyChicken]

I picked up a real estate magazine in grand Marais out of curiosity. If anyone is interested in moving up north to raise their chickens in the shadow of Lake Superior, a nice house on 24 acres can be had for the low low price of $669,000!

North Shore Poultry has a nice ring to it....

So how many redneck points do I get docked for raising chickens on 5 acres in Grand Marais? I'm probably not even allowed to take the test...LOL...