You know you live on a farm when:

[BarefootMom]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

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wow............... are you sure we don't live in the same house?

x3!!!

~ Aspen

glad to know there are people like me! I thought I was alone. My mom doesn't seem to think this is how farm people live (Even though she was raised on a farm and still lives on a farm). She freaks out if she sees a cobweb and has offered to come clean my house more than once. She is very judgmental of my house. But she never had chickens or any other type of small animal...

I have enjoyed this thread- it started out as a randomly rant but turns out more people are like me

Love it.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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x3!!!

~ Aspen

glad to know there are people like me! I thought I was alone. My mom doesn't seem to think this is how farm people live (Even though she was raised on a farm and still lives on a farm). She freaks out if she sees a cobweb and has offered to come clean my house more than once. She is very judgmental of my house. But she never had chickens or any other type of small animal...

I have enjoyed this thread- it started out as a randomly rant but turns out more people are like me

Love it.

You are not allowed to kill the spiders, because they have names...

You have two or three chicken buckets setting in your kitchen, and all uneaten food is eaten by something else.

You have 3 incubators in your bedroom, a brooder, your button quail, and in your dresser you have eggs that you are saving up to incubate.

You bring all your hurt animals in the house to doctor them.

You are in constant need of new coops.

Your cloths are never clean, the hay an assortment of animal poop, hay, and what ever else you find at your barn stuck to them. And ya know what? You don't mind one bit!

You are always tracking **** in from the barn.

You are told, quite often, that "When you get your own house you can have all your chickens in the house, however, you are still living in MY house and they must stay outside!"

You don't mind when the calves you're bottle feeding get slobber all over you!

If fact, you think it's darling on them to give you kisses.

When you milk the cow in the morning, and her bag has a layer of calf slobber.

There, those are a few to start with!

~ Aspen

 

[manybirds]

When your most comon phrase is 'when/if we ever butcher'

 

[the Precious Ladies]

Common phrases at my house:
"GET THAT CHICKEN OFF MY KITCHEN COUNTER"
"I swear mom- Ivy followed me in my room!"
"Did you close up the coop?"
"Water the rabbit kari!"
"Are the parakeets feed?"
"Dasiy rolled in something again!"
" ohhh, look- I found something on cragslist"
"Take care of the animals- then do your homework"

"you can have as many animals at your house as you like when your older- but this is MY house right now"

 

[BarefootMom]

* Look honey what I found on Craigslist!

* We need another chicken house...

* Don't throw that milk replacer out! Give it to the cats or the chickens.

* Your hubby calls and says: "Lolly was scouring thismorning, go to MFA and get some of that black goop"

* You know what black goop is. lol

* You have never *bought* a NEW 5-gallon bucket before... all of them same hydraulic oil, are green "pickle buckets", paint buckets, etc.

* You rarely need help when you go to the farm and home store... you know your way around it so well you could work there! lol









Sunday the weather was the nicest it has been for months (high was 67!!) and NOT windy. Cleaned out the chicken houses and the rabbitry. Got 4 large wheel barrow loads full! Lots of hard work! and the kids helped! DH cleaned the backporch off so we could put the tubs of milk replacer out there and make a new spot for the kittys. We had 5 kittys dropped off on us on Sunday afternoon

I am a sucker. They did ask, but also mentioned that if we didn't take them they were going to be shot.

They are SO BEAUTIFUL and almost a year old. 2 of them are really tame and will come in with our other cat, 1 is super wild, but will come to eat if it can't see you, the other 2 will come out but won't let you touch them. lol. Have no idea on genders, will most likely have kittens soon, but thats okay, we have a big farm. I have already seen 3 of them kill mice this morning in the feed room, so they all can stay!! We have so many mice in the feed room and out in the haybarn (I will not put out poison since there are so many animals roaming the place and I have live traps out)

 

[manybirds]

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[BarefootMom]

we don't actually vaccinate- if they are sick we will medicate, but we don't take them to the vet. The runny/eye/nose can be cured with a VERY SMALL ( I think it is like .5 cc per 10lbs- I have a chart in the animal aid kit out in the barn) shot of LA200. The vet actually told us what to use. To me there is no sense in paying the vet $25 per visit per cat. Also Baytril works great for medicating cats (and other animals- have used it for dogs, rabbits, and chickens) You have to get the Baytril from the vet though, but most will give it without seeing the animal.

 

[jdschuler]

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I am often saying "Don't jump/climb/ OR Swing on the gate!!"

oh and another one... we name our animals that we eat too... so if you ask what is for supper and I reply T-Bone that doesn't mean a t-bone steak nesscearily. T-Bone was the name of the steer we butchered so you might be surprised to have tacos!

I am constantly hollering "don't climb on the NEW hay bales! play on the OLD ones!" or "Stay OUT of the chicken coop!" or "unless you want worms in your feet don't run through the calving pen without shoes!!" UGH But I remember my mom constantly yelling at us to put our boots on when we went out to the barn or the corral (or we would get worms!LOL)

We ate Filet, Minyon, and Buttercup (whom I would ride around the pasture) growing up too all steers... LMAO

I remember my friends thought we were so weird because we ate rocky and bullwinkle, the easter bunny, yogi bear, bugs bunny, porky pig, daffy duck....

We are trying to turn our ranch into a self sustainable place, we already raise cattle (production), but now we keep a steer out of our herd instead of sending it to sale with the others, have our own meat birds and egg layers, working on getting a dairy cow, have a HUGE garden and have pygmy goats (they have the highest milkfat) good for butter

I love the fact that my children are growing up in this lifestyle... we are lucky though we have several hundred acres. And even though it takes us 20-30 minutes to get to town and is over an hour to a decent grocery store, everyone knows everyone and we can count on our neighbors

 

[jdschuler]

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I never thought that I would say anything like that, but I 've had to tell DS TWICE to take the goat back outside and if he doesn't want to take him to the barn at least let him stay on the front porch not in my living room.

I also say clean up the rabbit poop a lot.



Melly

Common in our house:
"The baby goat is in the tree again"
"Get the goat off the grill"
"Gertrude's (goat) got her head stuck in the fence AGAAAIIN Mom!"
"The goat is NOT a horse"
"No you CANNOT rope the chickens off the goats"
"look honey this auction has stuff for BOTH of us!" (I have an auction addiction lol)
"Look what I found on bismanonline!" (it's like craigslist but local)
"Don't feed the GOOD bread to the ducks/chickens/goats... use the stuff YOU won't eat!"
"Stop yelling! I can't hear the roosters crow"
"Don't drink that milk that's the baby goats milk use the Other carton!"
"I didn't cook that for you.. that is for the dog/chicken/goat" (ie scrambled eggs or hamburger and rice lol)
"Don't play on the New bales... Play on last years... I don't care if they scratch more because they are old"

Every Day is an adventure and we LOVE it!!

 

[Appytaz]

The cops show up at 10pm with your mini donkey in tow. Yup he escaped and the PD brought him back home. Super nice guys!!!!