You might be country if ...

HoneyDreameMomma said:

If you plan the rest of your life around kidding/lambing season.

True story - I had one of my girl friends who wanted to make concrete plans to get together and I told her that unless she wanted to come out to the farm for dinner, movies or games (which could possibly be interrupted by assisting a goat birth), we had to do whatever we were doing at the beginning of March or sometime after mid-April, because concrete plans don't happen during kidding season.

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Same here!

I don't mind putting on a glove and collecting fecal samples from the goats for egg counts, but I don't have human kids,
and the idea of changing dipers.

You go at tractor supply and they are having pet photo day and ask you to run home and get a chicken because the photographer wants to add it to their portfolio.

If you're in tractor supply and someone asks the staff a question, they tell them to go talk to you.

You do a show at tractor supply and come home with extra animals.

The clerk at tractor supply gives you heck for not waving when they passed you the other day in a country road.

You work a dirty sweaty job and take a shower before going so you don't "offend" anyone.

Your feed store bill is 4x your grocery bill.

You ask a neighbor to pick something up for you after work, since they work close to where it is, and there only questions are animal? What kind? You tell them goats and they reply sure. And they are a college professor with a nice new SUV.

Your neighborhood picnic is interrupted by a calving, and everyone, including children, grab what's needed and helps.

You have an accident in the yard, and end up on crutches. You then have to explain to everyone it's animal related. 100 pounds of dog lunged on leash, and you slipped in chicken manure.

You go out once a week an hour away to learn about your horse

You have to warn people not to let the goats in the house, they WILL try to follow or beat you in side.

You have people ask what is wrong with the goats and you have to tell them they are only sounding the alarm that someone is here, it is normal.

People ask what breed of dog your giant rabbit is.

People Freak out when they realize that the dog they were petting all night wasn't actually a dog, it was a goat.

You discuss how many dogs were at your house the night before but when you think about it, there were only 5 dogs and 3 of those were yours. Then you turn around and realize the three goats are what made it seem like there were "so many dogs".

When people come over and panic that there is a loose rabbit and all you do is clap and they come running.

A walk to the mail box looks like a scene out of a movie with a "herd" of goats all following close behind.

Every conversation ends somehow with talking about some sort of animal, even if it was just a simple how was your day...

You talk about your animals as if they are kids and people with kids have no clue why.

You have more pictures of your CHICKENS on your cell phone than you have of your grandkids.

You have more pictures of your SHEEP on your cell phone than you have of your grandkids.

You have more pictures of your DOGS on your cell phone than you have of your grandkids.

You have more pictures of your HORSES on your cell phone than you have of your grandkids.

You have more pictures of your TRACTOR on your cell phone than you have of your grandkids.

You have pictures on your cell phone of your grandkids riding the horse, playing on the tractor, laying on the floor with the dogs, holding baby lambs, gathering eggs.

You know you're country when...

All you talk about are your critters!

CinnamonEli said:

You know you're country when...

All you talk about are your critters!

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Amen to that!!!