You might be country if ...
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PattySh
Loving the herd life
The baby turkeys are hatching and chirping in the incubator on your kitchen table (along with seeds to plant, a chicken catalog and book and collars for the new "kids"( and you're eating dinner at the couch.
You have a brooder set up on the dresser in your bedroom.
The monitor in the livingroom is playing "goat tv". Next episode up new babies due April 6 and 8!
Parts of the milking machine dangles above the kitchen sink on a hook.
Baby goats are enjoying their hay by the woodstove (in a puppy playpen).
You have a brooder set up on the dresser in your bedroom.
The monitor in the livingroom is playing "goat tv". Next episode up new babies due April 6 and 8!
Parts of the milking machine dangles above the kitchen sink on a hook.
Baby goats are enjoying their hay by the woodstove (in a puppy playpen).
terrilhb
True BYH Addict
Got a new one. You go to the doctor and they ask if you exercise. Yes. What do you do. Take care of animals. That is not exercise. Than you carry water, lift 50lb bags, chase goats, chickens, clean brooders, coop and goat pens. Ok it is exercise
christy_was_here
Chillin' with the herd
You go over to your Mom's house for family dinner and you can't eat on the dining room table cause it's covered in planting cups with seeds germinating for the garden.
PattySh
Loving the herd life
LOL that's next in my house!!!!!
SmallFarmGirl
Smiley Crazy
If .... all you talk about is chickens and the people listening are about to fall asleep : 
ohiogoatgirl
True BYH Addict
I KNOW RIGHT? i mean if the good doc wants to come see my "not excersices" for him/herself then by all means! i've had people come over and just walk with me as i did chores (not even carrying nothing or helping, and only standing there if i have to chase somethin) and they say how tired they are.terrilhb said:
when the doc tells that aint excercise i laugh in their face and say "i'm big, ya i kinda noticed. if i *did not* do the farm chores then i'd likely weigh about 600 pounds if i ate the same amount. so *yes* it *is* excercise..." needless to say doctors and me dont see eyes to eye.how about:
people come over and you have to explain why your 8x4 ft wide dining table is in the corner under the window and covered with cups, egg cartons, and seedling trays full of soil.
when you're asked what you're putting in your garden you ask if they really want the full list and you just hand em a notebook page listed front and back.
your extended family "boasts"
on how you call them all at the birth of every animal and tell them the sexes and colors and that you're loading the pics to facebook right now so they can see about 90% of your facebook posts are about your animals, farm machinery, etc.
98% of your facebook pics are of your farm and animals.
you watch old western movies and yell "OOOOHHHHH REWIND! REWIND! DID YOU SEE <insert farm tool, implement, etc.> ?!?!"
people call you a hermit or stuffy and say you never talk to people. then you talk to people and they glaze over like amber when you start chattering about your goat that just kidded, the rabbits that are gettin about big enough to wring, how your fence for your cows went out and you had to herd em back from the neighbors yard.... (you usually get a reaction such as this:
hee hee )
Mamaboid
Loving the herd life
When the Dr. tells you you have to have surgery to repair the hernia you got lifting bags of feed, and you tell him, " it has to be done right away because I have does that will be kidding in early January." (I fully expect to have this exact conversation tomorrow afternoon when I go to the Dr.) 
When you spend hours on the computer looking under headings like goats for sale, chickens for sale, goat birthing videos and hooking up your "old" laptop in the goat birthing stall so you can "keep an eye on the girls".
When you tell your family not to get you anything for Christmas, just give me money cause I need a new incubator, and I am saving for another buck.
when you haven't used a real coffee cup in over a year because you use insulated ones so you can take it to the chicken coop with you.
when you sit in the chicken coop and eat your lunch because you are trying to figure out which one of them dern chickens are breaking the eggs.
when you tell your poor husband who has worked for 3 years to turn the yard and fields into his own private golf course that " that whole area over there needs to be fenced because the goats need more room".....aaannnndddd he says "ok, we can do that".
When you spend hours on the computer looking under headings like goats for sale, chickens for sale, goat birthing videos and hooking up your "old" laptop in the goat birthing stall so you can "keep an eye on the girls".
When you tell your family not to get you anything for Christmas, just give me money cause I need a new incubator, and I am saving for another buck.
when you haven't used a real coffee cup in over a year because you use insulated ones so you can take it to the chicken coop with you.
when you sit in the chicken coop and eat your lunch because you are trying to figure out which one of them dern chickens are breaking the eggs.
when you tell your poor husband who has worked for 3 years to turn the yard and fields into his own private golf course that " that whole area over there needs to be fenced because the goats need more room".....aaannnndddd he says "ok, we can do that".
larryj57
Loving the herd life
you know you're country when you use the left side of your desk at "the Office " to start seedlings for the spring garden, and have to explain to the Boss the difference in all the tomato plants you have in the corner pots.
fortheloveofgoats
Overrun with beasties
terrilhb said:
So very true!
