The Poultry Keeper

manic nonie · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 10:22 pm Post subject: to true to true

You know your a farmer when:

Getting up at 7am is a lie-in

You've run over your own dog in a tractor

When someone says they live on an estate you think of fields and woods rather than a barratts development

You tut at people in tesco buying danish bacon and french bread

You don't sit down to a single hot meal in august

You wave to every tractor that goes past even if you don't know them

You fall asleep with-in 3 minutes of sitting down in front of the t.v

Your sun tan ends just above the elbow in the summer

You've had a live lamb in your aga

You get more letters from DEFRA than you do from friends and family

You only take the kids to the seaside when it rains

You can't drive along a road anywhere in britain without studying everyone else's crop's and livestock

There is small heaps of grain outside the back door of the house every summer

Drilling does not mean putting holes through interior walls

Dress sense means cutting down on nitrogen applications

Your 4x4 acctually goes off road

You get frustrated by people calling straw "hay"

Your ideal holiday is to visit other peoples farms

Your hands look like they are made of asbestos

Your bag on your hoover is full of grain from august to october

The faint (but agreeable) smell of diesel never leaves you

You most valued possession is your knife

A lamb follows the children into the kitchen and no one thinks its unusal

You confidently walk arround the supermarket in wellies

Your lawn include hundreds of cattle hoof prints

You open a bale and discover an old mobile phone (or wallet)

You've got the vet's number on speed dail in your phone

A good holiday is a week in the west coast in november

Track and field has nothing to do with athletics

You drive your new telehandler repeatedly past your neighbour's yard until someone appears

You feel naked without baler twine in your pocket

debcat · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:32 am Post subject:

CP · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 3:12 am Post subject:

nigel · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:29 am Post subject:

fantastic nonie

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7138 Location: isle of lewis

when harvesting it ends up in your wellies and you tip it up outside the back door as you go in Wink

CP · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:11 am Post subject:

Ahh, now I understand! Laughing

Henwife · Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 3194 Location: Monmouthshire

No chance of that here - the guinea fowl or Fayoumis would gobble it up before it hit the ground.

Itsybitsy · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1349 Location: Leicestershire

Very good - very true, all of it. Laughing

Itsybitsy

Spana · Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 2126 Location: North Cornwall

Thats my OH you have there, you two been meeting in secret Wink

kated · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 1821 Location: norfolk

If only it was just diesel that we smelt of Laughing

manic nonie · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:07 pm Post subject:

I know, there were others that couldn't have been metioned. Nah jan Wink

Welsh Duck · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:27 pm Post subject:

Coming from a farming family (and proud of it) I can relate to most of these, especially the bit about the defra forms and the lamb in the aga.
I wouldn't have it any other way though.

We have the vet on speed dial too Confused

Thanks nonie that was great.

manic nonie · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:41 pm Post subject:

the poor vets. I want to shake hands with the bloke who invented bale twine Wink

. Man I think some how I'm becoming more of a farmer. guys though this wasn't written by me but by a mate from Uist sorry I should have made that clear. Confused

thanks ginky if your reading this

Spana · Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 2126 Location: North Cornwall

We have the vets number written in red on the kitchen door along with all the drugs I'm allergic to. Laughing

We also use the kitchen door as a height chart for all the visiting children Laughing

debcat · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject: Re: to true to true