You know you live on a farm when:

[hennyannie]

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I think these farm animals have taught my kids to be kind to all living things, so X2 whispering winds!

 

[manybirds]

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[Okie Amazon]

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That last has been heard far too many times at our place!

 

[roocrazy]

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a play pen! What a great idea! lol Been there done that though. Nothing like getting up every hour during an ice storm checking on the heifer that is due any minute and go out to find she had the calf in the middle of the field and left it! Bring it in the house at 4am, talk the quilt off the bed and lay down for the calf- get the hair dryers out.. (I don't even use a hair dryer and we have 2! lol)

Also remember having piglets in the house when I was younger...

I also have been known to stick them in the bathtub to thaw out.....have used the hair dryer too....you do whatever you have to to help them survive.

I have another picture of the same calf with my daughter when she was little standing by it....cutest picture, but I can't find it anymore.

really i remember when i was younger, and i thought it was dumb that my dad and uncles sold or slaughteredthe cows that lost calfs or stillbirthed. but now after getting my heifer, i relize, feed is exspensive.and keeping them would be a lot of money down the drain...

 

[yinepu]

A.T. Hagan :

When you are better known at the feed store than any other business in town.

 

[yinepu]

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I would rather have critters in my house than most of the people I know... some of them.. well.. I have no idea where they've been... gods knows what kids of diseases the people carry!

 

[StupidBird]

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Oh, my dear, I couldn't agree more!

 

[CocoNUT]

My PEOPLE!!!! I am truly HOME!!!!

I used to think it was SOOOO COOL that my aunt and uncle had calves and lambs IN their house in the winter time when I was growing up. They have a ranch and I grew up in the tropical "suburbs". I had to put up with the whole "when you have your own house...you can have as many animals as you like..."

Yeah...except my family have ALL forgotten their 'ranching roots' and SPAZ that we have rabbits IN the house! Chickens?! Why would you EVER want a chicken?! Goats!!!! OH MY - I think she's gone crazy!

And my husband and I agree....we'd rather have animals in our home than most of the people we come into contact with on a daily basis! I love the smell of hay and rain! The smell of corn silk in the summer...honeysuckle and pasture carried on the wind. It lets me know I'm home.

 

[herfrds]

"Mom your turkey pooped on my 4-wheeler and quit laughing it's not that funny!"

"Your geese are out again and did a major overhaul on the front step, get the hose."

"Scrape your boots before you get in the truck, because we are going to a wedding that's why."

 

[terrilhb]

All these are so true and so good. People look at me like I am crazy when I have a injured chicken in my bathroom. And because I will sit on the couch with my hen and watch tv.