You might be country if ...

[cattlecait]

When you are approached at church with the following, "Are you the *insert animal* girl? My kid wants to get into 4-H..."

When you're off at college and order seed and chick catalogs to distract yourself from the fact that you're in an apartment.

When, against your husband's will and best interests, you go ahead and order anything in the seed catalog that says "good for containers" and begin raising corn, lettuce, herbs, radishes, and chili peppers in Rubbermaid tubs in the apartment.

When the dates for "Chick Days" are announced at the local feed store and husband takes away your car keys until its passed.

When you get up at 4a.m. on opening day of deer season in November, get suited up in full camo, pull on your boots, and then realize that you're at college, in an apartment, and your shotgun half-way across the country, not to mention you have no idea where you'd go to shoot a deer after you get in the truck and no, dad didn't get your tags this year. (Yes, I did this. It was a very sad day.)

 

[kelsey2017]

This is what your car looks like, AFTER it has been repaired! And the duct tape is hiding the fact that the whole headlight is held in place with baling twine, go horse-girl ingenuity!

It has been like that for six months now, the time I hit a deer before and went to the junk yard for a replacement headlight I spent $35 and hit a deer again, same headlight 3 weeks later. Sticking (no pun intended) with the duct tape!

 

[PattySh]

You might be country if...

All you have in your bookcase is animal/garden related books

the baby goats are playing in their playpen next to the diningroom table

you have a milking machine and canning jars in your bedroom and a bottle of fightback, extra heat bulb and an egg carton of fertile turkey eggs on your dresser

flannel lined barn jeans over the back of your computer chair

shavings in your good car

bag of pig vegies on the kitchen floor

you offer the neighbor kid chicken soup and you run like heck to make sure he doesn't eat from the vat of hot pig slop on the same stove!

 

[PattySh]

you are at a baby shower and your city slicker sister goes "EEEWWWWWW!!!" and ears are all over you when you describe in detail untwisting twin baby goats in utero.
(faces were priceless)

 

[RainySunday]

When...
...your three year old daughter insists she is a goat, and gets on her "milking stand (stool)" demanding to be be milked
...the same 3 yr old brings a toy bird up to you and asks you to pet the bird, you comply, then the child says, "Let's check her vent now" and turns the toy over to look at the under/backside, then says, "Yep, she looks pretty spiffy now!"

 

[Bimpnottin]

- when you can hear the tommy cats and the girls going at it at 3 a.m. (why is it always 3 a.m?) and you hear your 4-year-old daughter sleepily say, "we're going to have kittens soon"

- when the neighbors on the big farm are spreading manure from the liquid tanks and instead of saying "EWWWWW" my kids say that the corn should be extra tall this year

- when your kids think that the nuggets Grandma makes from their rabbits taste better then chicken nuggets anyday

- you search Craigslist for animals, even though you're not set up for them, yet, and try and figure out how long it would take to be ready. (Man, if only I had more room, I would have gotten that herd of Nubian does, husband might have killed me, but I was this{} close....

 

[farmchick]

You might be country if you fight ganders!

AGREED!

 

[christy_was_here]

You plan your finances around what you want out of the Premier and Jeffers catalogs.
Hatchery catalogs make you squeal with glee!
You enjoy the smell of horse manure mixed with hay.
You have chicken eggs coming out of your ears, a broody sitting on more, and are planning a new chick order.
Lowes and Tractor Supply are your two favorite stores.
Your ducks meet you in the drive when you pull in.
You spend way too much time telling people about the animals, their health, and behaviors not realizing they really could care less.
You stop to help a farmer whose heifer got loose and happened to have a halter and lead in the trunk of your car.
You do not own any 'good shoes'.
New boots make you giddy.
You spend too much time checking out the farm and garden section on CL just in case you find a critter that would be just perfect for your farm.
You can't wait to turn the ground over and get the garden started because you miss FRESH VEGGIES after eating preserved and processed food all winter.

 

[christy_was_here]

- when your kids think that the nuggets Grandma makes from their rabbits taste better then chicken nuggets anyday

My Grandaddy raised rabbits and we ate fried and bbq bunny all the time when I was little. Rabbit meat is AWESOME!

 

[farmchick]

You might be country if your reading this post!