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Originally posted by dt1050 dt1050 wrote:

follow a baler through the fields and throw hay all day, see how easy it is..lol


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The first day out you get all hot, so you take your shirt off...........Now you're so sunburned you can hardly do the night milking.
You gotta LOVE it, or it'll kill you.  Also, it's called PRIDE.

Originally posted by ksbowman ksbowman wrote:

My grandfather made a living off 40 acres. Pretty big chicken laying house, hand full of milk cows, few turkeys and pigs. Grew his own hay and alfalfa. Never was rich but always made a living.
  We had the same thing, but no turkeys.  Also grew oats to feed the draft horses.  Pretty much 18/7 and it was fun growing up at that time.  Worked your butt off and enjoyed it.  You were/are your own boss.  You can do WHAT you want, WHEN you want.....except for the plowing, disking, planting, milking twice a day, haying, maintenance, cleaning, cleaning the barn, picking corn, taking care of the horses, feeding the cows, canning EVERYTHING from the garden, doing THAT thing to the piglets, killing and cleaning chickens and steers, thrashing, chopping and splitting wood for the heat and the cook stove...etc....and going to church on Sunday morning...AFTER milking and a bath.  And you better not make Ma later....

Yep, farming is about as easy as it gets.....
Those, were the GOOD OLD DAYS!!!  HONEST TO GOD!!!
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Farming was enjoyable when I was growing up - except for those &^%@$ cows. If all I had to do was drop a plow into the ground and daydream until I got to the end of the field, I'd enjoy farming.
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Originally posted by DougS DougS wrote:

Farming was enjoyable when I was growing up - except for those &^%@$ cows. If all I had to do was drop a plow into the ground and daydream until I got to the end of the field, I'd enjoy farming.


I loved working the fields, smell of a fresh cut hay field or the fresh tilled dirt....before the manureDead

these folks around me are worried about making there lawns look like a golf course, they brag about how much they fertilize, lime and cut there grass.  heck, my moo-ers cut and fertilize the grass daily!!!Big smile


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farming is easy, and just like any other business or hobby can be fun too, just use common sense, it was a stress reliever for me for 45+ years. where else can you get to operate all kinds of different equipment, and get to use all kinds of tools? where else can you enjoy the outside with the sun, the rain, and even the pretty snow? and without farming...where would this forum be? or would it?
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Originally posted by Hubert (Ga)engine7 Hubert (Ga)engine7 wrote:

Originally posted by dt1050 dt1050 wrote:

Same fella and a few of his neighborhood pals are pitching a fit cause we fixed our barbwire fence and got a few cows.  They are slowly turning our area into a development.  minus a couple horses, there's no farms around me.  I'm still battling the urban blight and will hold out as long as I can.   It seams the more they complain about my little farm, the more cows,fowl, pigs I get?  surely it a coincidence.Wink

 
Don't fix the fence too good, leave a bad spot so the cows can get into his 20 rows of corn.


That's all I'd need, our rooster was blamed for crapping on his porch.  roosters wings are clipped, made it over 2 fences and up in his rafters, crossed the road all while holding his bowls to crap on his porch and he made it back in the coop by the time I checked on the flock at 5am?  possible yes, likely no. I was just informed my cows smell like cows....who'd guessed.  another complaint, time to find another calf.


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Originally posted by dt1050 dt1050 wrote:



Originally posted by Hubert (Ga)engine7 Hubert (Ga)engine7 wrote:


Originally posted by dt1050 dt1050 wrote:

Same fella and a few of his neighborhood pals are pitching a fit cause we fixed our barbwire fence and got a few cows.  They are slowly turning our area into a development.  minus a couple horses, there's no farms around me.  I'm still battling the urban blight and will hold out as long as I can.   It seams the more they complain about my little farm, the more cows,fowl, pigs I get?  surely it a coincidence.Wink

 

Don't fix the fence too good, leave a bad spot so the cows can get into his 20 rows of corn.


That's all I'd need, our rooster was blamed for crapping on his porch.  roosters wings are clipped, made it over 2 fences and up in his rafters, crossed the road all while holding his bowls to crap on his porch and he made it back in the coop by the time I checked on the flock at 5am?  possible yes, likely no. I was just informed my cows smell like cows....who'd guessed.  another complaint, time to find another calf.


Here as long as your zoned agricultural there us nothing they can do. Just smile and comment on how nice it is to live in the country that is what i do. But I seldom get complaints.
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I figure 'farming' is easy...
it's making any money doing it, that's HARD !!
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farming is ok in a residential area according to our newly adopted zoning.  If not we'd be grandfathered in, they passed zoning 2 years ago, been farming for 20+.
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Originally posted by dt1050 dt1050 wrote:

time to find another calf.
YA!!!!  A calf with the scours!!  Oh what a smell..........Dead
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getten a calf Sunday.  Hope I don't get many more complaints, gonna need a bigger barn....lol
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You should really get 2 calves. Cows are herd animals and while you can raise them alone it is much better for them if there are at least 2.
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Ted J., about the only job you did not note was throwing down silage on a cold, KS, windy, winter morning when more seem to blow back up than what you had thrown down, and  the bad job (cleaning the chicken house). I normally got out of milking by operating the tractor in the field until nearly dark. Herb(GA)
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the calf sale fell through, it was born with out a rectum.  That was a new one for me, recon a higher power realized there's enough rectums in the world.SmileSmile

now worries cleaning the chicken house, ours is on skids.  I just move it and scoop out the crap and dump it on the compost pile.


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Well I haven't seen that birth defect before. But I had a still born calf the other day. Didn't feel like it even had lungs when I tried to get it to breath. Then to add insult to injury the cow had to be put down because she got damaged and couldn't stand again. Yup farming sure is easy. This spring I have lost the first two cows and calves.
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sorry ya lost your cows/calfs.  I wish folks would try working on a farm.  it will give you a real respect for the food on your plate.  another misconception is when they buy a steak/milk at the store for a high price, they just assume the farmer is making a lot of money. yea right, farmer ain't even get'n a 1/4 of that  money ya pay in the store.
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You know I had two in the last two years that had nerve damage calving. The first one calved in the timber and got wallowed down into a ravine upside down. I took the chain saw and the 170 down and cut a pathway to her. Had two neighbors with me and they said it was a waste of time, that she was dead. I got her to blink an eye so I knew there was a spark. Pulled the 170 in with a loader on it, put a couple straps on her legs and picked her out of the ravine and threaded thru the timber out into the pasture. I laid her down and in a few minutes she held her head up. Carried her water and hay for 4 days and she got up. Just had another calf 3 days ago. My 170D has a cab on it so it doesn't do to well in the timber. The other cow was fed and watered and I gave her steroid shots but she went 5 days and didn't make it. Even picked her up with belly cradle twice with the 170 and 500 loader ( they both weighed 1200-1300#)just wasn't in the cards. Farming is so easy!
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took the 5020 down and spread the compose pile (manure and veggy scraps from) on the garden, then cleaned the barn out....yea haw, what a stink.....rain today and tomorrow then sun, perfect time to spread some poo around. SmileDead

Glad I thought things out a bit and made the barn door big enough to get the tractor in, also put the barn right beside the garden, easy haul and use less fuel.  compose pile is above garden.  with the hill side it's perfect cause, ..... rolls down hill....Tongue


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