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Did you ever birth a two headed cav? My grandpa did and I wanted to see if this is a common thing. He's got a picture of it at the farm and it's really creepy.

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tell us a calving story, plz.

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What's the scariest animal you've came acrossed, being out in the fields?

rattle snake.

other animals I've hit with a car/truck/tractor include:

other snakes
a baby deer and an adult deer (different instances)
a turkey
over a million rabbits
a badger
coyote

other animals I've seen but not hit with the car/truck/tractor include:

porcupine
bobcat
beaver
armadillo
a huge snapping turtle
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How many relatives have lost body parts to an irrigation system?

What is the go-to "farm accident" story in your family?

one of the cowboys that worked for my dad was using the feed truck (it's like a big dump truck but it's full of cow food and it has this thing on the side that spits it out into the cows bowl) and the thing that spits it out the side was clogged up or something so he had his hands in the bicycle chain part and it started going and pulled his glove through the sprockets and ripped his fingers off. my dad later went out to the truck and had to work the chain back and forth to get the glove out and get the fingers out of the glove but they were like hamburger so they couldn't re-attach them. the guy drove to where my dad was and told him he was going to the hospital before going to the hospital because he didn't want to get in trouble or something. I was all, "wtf, why didn't you just go to the hospital!?" but he was like, "HOWDY HOWDY HOWDY I'M A TOUGH COWBOY!"

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Did you ride horses to wrangle up your cattle?

no, just four wheelers or like little four wheeler trucks with 4 or 6 wheels

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Do cows over eat, or are they self regulating?

they'll usually eat everything you put in their bowl every day so I bet they would if given the chance. if they are just out there like in the field they seem to do ok managing their weight though so I guess yes.

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Can you 'splain how to get free cash through farming again?
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would you consider the cows to be friends? do they have personalities?
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Tell me about crop insurance and whether it's actually true that farmers can get paid for not planting crops, cause I am just baffled by this.

we have some land that we don't plant crops on called crp that we get a check for every year for doing nothing. sometimes when there is no rain we actually get to let the cows eat it and still get paid. there is a ton of huge fat checks our ranch, my dad, his dad, other corporations they have have cashed for basically just having shitty weather. like huge fat checks some years. it really is a racket that shouldn't be legal.

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Did you ever birth a two headed cav? My grandpa did and I wanted to see if this is a common thing. He's got a picture of it at the farm and it's really creepy.

not me personally but my dad has seen them. ours have always been born dead like that though. there's a stuffed one in the meade county museum. pretty awesome to check out as a little kid.

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how ashamed is your dad of you, since you didn't get into farming/ranching?

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tell us a calving story, plz.

one time a cow couldn't push out the baby and just its front or back feet were sticking out and my dad hooked a chain to the feet and hooked it up to his truck and pulled on it trying to be kind of gentle but it ripped the legs off the baby cow and he then had to shoot the mother cow.

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tell us a calving story, plz.

one time a cow couldn't push out the baby and just its front or back feet were sticking out and my dad hooked a chain to the feet and hooked it up to his truck and pulled on it trying to be kind of gentle but it ripped the legs off the baby cow and he then had to shoot the mother cow.

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Can you 'splain how to get free cash through farming again?

A) have cows and land
B) have bad weather
C) get fat stacks

that's legitimately all there is to it. if you have only medium bad weather you have to have crop insurance though. if the weather is super bad the gov. just declares it an emergency or something and makes it rain.

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would you consider the cows to be friends? do they have personalities?

only the little ones that I had to feed with a bottle before school. most of them died though because I did a subpar job looking after them.

yes to personalities but mostly only the ones that are pieces of crap. like you know that one over there always tries to charge at me and kill me. when you are a little kid this is pretty common. as an adult most of them don't mess with you.

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how ashamed is your dad of you, since you didn't get into farming/ranching?

he was pretty adamant that I not do farming actually. one of my bros did anyway.

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Is Tully Corcoran (sp?) reviewing these questions as well?

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do fans of certain farm implement brands hate on fans of other farm implement brands? would i see john deere combine with a sticker of calvin pissing on a case IH combine?

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do fans of certain farm implement brands hate on fans of other farm implement brands? would i see john deere combine with a sticker of calvin pissing on a case IH combine?

no, I don't think this is a real thing.

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did you help any sheep over the fence?

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do fans of certain farm implement brands hate on fans of other farm implement brands? would i see john deere combine with a sticker of calvin pissing on a case IH combine?

no, I don't think this is a real thing.


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did you help any sheep over the fence?

we didn't have sheep. I actually didn't know of any farmers that did.

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How many chickens would I need to keep a family of four in fresh eggs daily?

a good hen will lay about 300 eggs a year.  there's some seasonality though, so most days all the hens will lay, but at times (winter mostly), none of them will.  some of the more decorative breeds lay less, figure maybe 200 per year (or some hardly lay at all, like the game breeds).

anyways, you can calculate from there how many to feed your family.  knowing how big you are, i wouldn't want to guess how many eggs you eat per day.
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how ashamed is your dad of you, since you didn't get into farming/ranching?

he was pretty adamant that I not do farming actually. one of my bros did anyway.

he didn't want to share the mad stacks with you  :horrorsurprise:

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steve - I'm concerned about how many animals you've killed, or seen killed, and are still a functioning member of society.
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