You know you live on a farm when:

[dinahmoe]

when you have to run to town to pick up something really quick and when you pull out your money,out comes hay and feed.

 

[shadowpaints]

you know you live on a farm when:
you rummage through the fridge and growl WHO took my chocolate! i hid it behind the pennicilian !! its not there now! LOL

 

[llrumsey]

When someone elses goats get out and run amuck and everyone thinks there are yours. When in reality yours dont go very far because they know where the good food on the place is.

You feel really embarased when you have to buy "store eggs" because your hens had a bad week and arent laying. and the store eggs have to color, no taste and they look funny.

When your female goats come into heat and the male goat gets "excited" when you come into the pen.

Durning this same time, you dont bend over infront of the goat and when you get to the house your other half says " hmmm female goats are in heat, better take a bath you smell like the male" geez wonder why. He is more lovable durning this time, always wants to rub his head on you, want scratches and kisses.

 

[welsummerchicks]

The high point of the day is watching the horses get all excited before they get turned out on the grass.

 

[michickenwrangler]

Quote:

I knew a woman whose horse's breastcollar broke on the trail she and improvised with her bra.

 

[zzGypsy]

Quote:
yep, turn out time...
the hubby calles it "gallumpage"... especially fun since we have draft horses and the ground shakes as they go by... fun to watch a horse that big jumping and bucking. and when they go straight up chest to chest... MAN they're tall.

 

[Peaches Lee]

There's a beaver in your lawn and you escort him back to his home after a storm disoriented him.

 

[boykin2010]

1.When all of your friends think you are weird because you just spend hundreds of dollars on a "rare" breed of chicken and plan on selling eggs to repay the money.

2. When you walk outside and all the animals look up are you hear
HEEEE-HAWWW, BAAAAAAAAAH, GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE, QUACK QUACK, COCKADOODLE DOO and they run to get as close as possible to you

3. When you spend more on animal feed then human feed

4. When you haven't bought eggs or meat from the store in over a year.

I think of some more in a little while

 

[llrumsey]

Our neighbor down at the end of the block worries that we have gotten rid of the donkeys when he doesnt hear them for awhile.

Then brings us 2 dump loads of potatoes for us and the animals. (do you know how long it takes to sort out that many potatoes???)

When you offer the chief of police the names of all of your animals incase they get out, he just shakes his head no. He wont let me license them either.

The donkeys knows when you step out side because she is standing at the corner of the correl and lets everyone for blocks around know that your out side.

You walk around the yard and have a "following" ducks, chicken, turkey and geese.

Takes you longer to feed the animals then it does to fix a meal for the family.

Dont worry about what your clothes look like first thing in the morning, even though they are clean now, it's hard telling what you'll be wearing come night time.

Time you meals around feeding time of the animals.

Dont go visiting to late in the evening because you have to "tuck in the kids".

Get excited when corn goes down a few points so that you can stock up and make your money go futher.

Have a deal with the sheriff's office to call you when ever a load of hay or straw is dumped on the side of the road.

 

[ArkaFarmaMama]

You guys are AWESOME!!! Some have already been said but here's mine...

1. Anyone who comes to visit from town has to stop at the co-op first.
2. Your dad has brought you goats in the back of his fancy brand new
Avalanche cause it's got the nice cover!
3. You sell one of the goats and haul it to town chained in the back of
your pickup, stopping first to pick the kids up from school!
4. Surprise visits find you in your nightgown or robe digging a hole, feeding,
cleaning, or dragging some animal around the yard, and only if I'm lucky!
5. Visitors have to use the side door cause your old horse is napping on
the porch and you don't want to wake him up!
6. Visitors are offended when you ask them to take off their shoes, they
wern't dirty when they arrived, but after walking through your yard they
are now!
7. Visitors ALWAYS bring their camera and your animal in rut is the topic
of their facination and ends up on FB or youtube...
8. You have at least 1 pair of heels or your muck boots in the floorboard of
your car, one or the other is on your feet depending on where you are!
9. Shopping and going to town sounds like the WORST IDEA and require
anti-anxiety medication.
10. Shopping is done online, delivered by fedex, and if not the right size it's
repurposed as a lead rope, sick animal bedding, wound bandage, etc...
11. Presents are nescesities not frivilous adornments, often including guns,
ammo, wire, animals, tires, tack, and vegetable seed!
12. Only one person can take a quick shower a day during the summer
cause the well is running low and you have to use more water watering
the animals!
13. When you get in a fight with your hub because he left his dirty clothes
or wet towel on the bed he retaliates with "Well you have goat poop on the
porch that got tracked in the house!" and I say "Well You shoulda taken your
boots off at the door", he says "I'm going to shoot the goats!", I say "I'm
gonna shoot you if you don't build a pen they can't get out of!", the fight
ends with me sulking and saying, "YEAH, but WE DON'T SLEEP ON THE
PORCH I don't care if it's dirty!" To make up we go on "vacation".
14. Vacations are usually only 24 hours, cause you can't leave the farm for
very long. The goats will get out, the dogs will run off, the chickens/cows/
horses gotta be fed and watered. Your family lives 1.5 hours away...
15. Your kid goes to school and tells EVERYONE how you chased a mean stray
dog around the yard, shooting at it with your shotgun, barefoot, while they
cheered you on!

And finally! I know there is more....

16. Your greatest achievement in your mind was the fact that your hens
are still the only winter laying birds in the county according to the co-op lady!