Is farmings easy???

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.

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!!!

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 manure

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!!!


Edited by dt1050 - 22 Mar 2017 at 5:15am

Hubert (Ga)engine7 wrote: 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.   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.


Edited by dt1050 - 22 Mar 2017 at 3:10pm

I figure 'farming' is easy...
it's making any money doing it, that's HARD !!

dt1050 wrote: time to find another calf.

YA!!!!  A calf with the scours!!  Oh what a smell..........

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.

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.

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.


Edited by dt1050 - 26 Mar 2017 at 4:29am

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.

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. 

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....