Most people are, and sometimes the media doesn't help us :(
But if you or anyone else ever wants to know anything about farming :P then feel free to ask, I happen to love talking about it :)
We used to have cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, turkeys, geese, and horses.
But now all we have are cows and 2 horses, the cows for milk yes and they go for meat when we are done with them :)
Depends, some go old and get big udders real quick, some go down and can't get back up however they won't go for hamburgers they go to a knackers yard. We have one cow which is 12 years old that is our oldest one, we took 3 to slaughter not long ago and they were 6-7.
Well all farms were small family farms and they all had a bit of everything to feed themselves, but with more people to feed , and prices all over the place most farmers just went for one thing. We don't have the room for sheep and pigs anymore and they all bring there own problems. I think the chickens and geese gave the sheep salmonella. We had a fire and it killed a lot of the pigs and my grandad had, had enough of them. Chickens just died off and we didn't replace, turkeys were too much work at Christmas, and cows are beautiful so we kept them :P but the salmonella didnt kill the sheep ^ we just didnt have the room, so we went from all those animals and about 50 milk cows, to 215 milks cows and 2 horses :P
What do you do for a living?
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Don't have chickens no more :P
But no we didn't, we ate there eggs though!
I'm a dairy farmer :)
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Cool. I'm completely ignorant about that stuff.
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Most people are, and sometimes the media doesn't help us :(
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Are you just in the business of producing milk or is there more to it than that? That question felt awkward to ask =/
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We used to have cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, turkeys, geese, and horses.
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So how long do the Cows get before they become hamburger? What happened to all the other animals?
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Depends, some go old and get big udders real quick, some go down and can't get back up however they won't go for hamburgers they go to a knackers yard. We have one cow which is 12 years old that is our oldest one, we took 3 to slaughter not long ago and they were 6-7.
Well all farms were small family farms and they all had a bit of everything to feed themselves, but with more people to feed , and prices all over the place most farmers just went for one thing. We don't have the room for sheep and pigs anymore and they all bring there own problems. I think the chickens and geese gave the sheep salmonella. We had a fire and it killed a lot of the pigs and my grandad had, had enough of them. Chickens just died off and we didn't replace, turkeys were too much work at Christmas, and cows are beautiful so we kept them :P but the salmonella didnt kill the sheep ^ we just didnt have the room, so we went from all those animals and about 50 milk cows, to 215 milks cows and 2 horses :P