Saturday, February 18, 2012

Things I have learned so far - Farm Version

Wood stove heat is the nicest heat since radiator heat. 

EVERYTHING wants to eat your chickens.  (When they can't get to your ducks.)

Goats make a sound that will wake the dead when they go into labor.  They also produce a startling amount of 'birth goo'.  And you really have to have an understanding boss when you call in late because you have to take another shower to the the goat 'birth goo' off your body and out of your hair, and find come clean clothes.

When processing a chicken, if you place the chicken on the cutting board, breast side down and grab the lower leg firmly to sever the joint between that lower leg and the drumstick, as you press the knife into the joint it will cause the chicken's foot to curl up around your gripping hand and make you scream like a girl. You will then drop the chicken and the knife and run hopping from the room shaking the dead zombie chicken foot grossness off your hand screaming, "EEW EEW EEW EEW EEW!"

A baby goat bleat makes everything OK.  As does the sound of horse hooves galloping up the hill for his evening grain.

Never put an egg in your pocket thinking, "It'll just be for a second, and I won't forget." because it won't be, and you will.

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