Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.

[CornishTone]

They are totally inbred, qe2 is a coudin of phil the greek
Thsts why they are do short
I was shocked when i met phil in 1979, he was barely up to my shoulders

Second cousins once removed. I suspect that’s sufficiently removed to negate any concerns about inbreeding.

Don’t worry, we all know you don’t like them @glasshouse.

 

[glasshouse]

Second cousins once removed. I suspect that’s sufficiently removed to negate any concerns about inbreeding.

Don’t worry, we all know you don’t like them @glasshouse.

Yes but victoria and albert were first cousins, and look at the carnage their offspring caused

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Harry and William are both over 6ft.

Would that be down to theirs Dads?

 

[Kiwi Pete]

76,???? The dirty old git!
My oldest was born when i was 42, but she was our fourth pregnancy.

He must have been a randy old boy.

11 kids by the time he'd worn out his third wife oddly farmers then could afford large families, now it seems solely the prerogative of the unemployed.......

something went badly, badly wrong there .

But, his father before him also had a large family, and he was a seed merchant after the gold rush failed him, importing seed from the old country hence the family love and interest in things botanical (and latin)

You may have heard of Nimmo and Blair?
John Blair arrived here in 1864 but the gold was mostly gone by then.
Then the shipping constraints of the war ended his business, by and large.. he left his money to the Dunedin art gallery!
Each generation has thus far has started from scratch and gone farming.
Hence (probably) why I turned down the opportunity to take over the old farm and forge my own path, the family stubbornness is getting refined with each generation it seems

But yeah, unsure whether fathering kids at that age would be on my bucket list (or that of any sane person TBH)

 

[CornishTone]

Would that be down to theirs Dads?

I don’t think there’s any doubting Williams paternity to be fair. Harry’s?! Meh, who knows, or cares for that matter. Their mother was tall though, as is her brother if you look at them all walking behind her coffin all those years ago. So the height may well come from her side.

 

[glasshouse]

He must have been a randy old boy.

11 kids by the time he'd worn out his third wife oddly farmers then could afford large families, now it seems solely the prerogative of the unemployed.......

something went badly, badly wrong there .

But, his father before him also had a large family, and he was a seed merchant after the gold rush failed him, importing seed from the old country hence the family love and interest in things botanical (and latin)

You may have heard of Nimmo and Blair?
John Blair arrived here in 1864 but the gold was mostly gone by then.
Then the shipping constraints of the war ended his business, by and large.. he left his money to the Dunedin art gallery!
Each generation has thus far has started from scratch and gone farming.
Hence (probably) why I turned down the opportunity to take over the old farm and forge my own path, the family stubbornness is getting refined with each generation it seems

But yeah, unsure whether fathering kids at that age would be on my bucket list (or that of any sane person TBH)

But back then, all they did was father them

 

[glasshouse]

I don’t think there’s any doubting Williams paternity to be fair. Harry’s?! Meh, who knows, or cares for that matter. Their mother was tall though, as is her brother if you look at them all walking behind her coffin all those years ago. So the height may well come from her side.

It didnt come from chas, thats a certainty.
I sometimes think that children that are deprived of love dont grow well, and that may be a factor for the older royals

 

[Blaithin]

They are totally inbred, qe2 is a coudin of phil the greek
Thsts why they are do short
I was shocked when i met phil in 1979, he was barely up to my shoulders

Is height a sign of inbreeding?

Geez I know a lot of inbred people then

 

[glasshouse]

Is height a sign of inbreeding?

Geez I know a lot of inbred people then

no, quite the opposite.

 

[Blaithin]

I’ll add it to the list of things older people have taught me to judge others on.

- skin colour
- age
- clothes
- sex
- tractors
- height

It’s hard work remembering all the things I need to discriminate against!

 

[glasshouse]

I’ll add it to the list of things older people have taught me to judge others on.

- skin colour
- age
- clothes
- sex
- tractors
- height

It’s hard work remembering all the things I need to discriminate against!

You are off on the wrong tangent there, inbreeding leads to loss of size in all species
I thought as a cattle breeder you would lnow that

 

[Blaithin]

You are off on the wrong tangent there, inbreeding leads to loss of size in all species
I thought as a cattle breeder you would lnow that

I’m using height as the general term. A persons height can be 4’, a persons height can be 6’. I wasn’t aware it was a synonym for tall. People don’t tell me “Geez you’re height.”

I don’t inbreed my cattle however line breeding my chickens certainly doesn’t lead to any significant decrease in size.

 

[CornishTone]

You are off on the wrong tangent there, inbreeding leads to loss of size in all species

Being 92 and 97 also results in a significant loss in size or height, or so I’ve heard.

 

[glasshouse]

Being 92 and 97 also results in a significant loss in size or height, or so I’ve heard.

he was only 57 when i met him , i was 16 and a head above him and i had a rifle in my hands come to think of it.

 

[glasshouse]

I’m using height as the general term. A persons height can be 4’, a persons height can be 6’. I wasn’t aware it was a synonym for tall. People don’t tell me “Geez you’re height.”

I don’t inbreed my cattle however line breeding my chickens certainly doesn’t lead to any significant decrease in size.

line breeding is not inbreeding.
inbreeding was used to miniturise the british aberdeen angus breed 100 odd yr ago

 

[Blaithin]

Line breeding is inbreeding.

If the results are good and desired, it's line breeding.

If they're bad, it's inbreeding.

Either way, you're breeding close relatives together.

 

[texas pete]

you could always buy a brand new $50,000 crew cab UTE to tow about 12 at a time in a trailer if you want to be effischent . . .

 

[Kidds]

They were very harsh times back then. My great aunt gave birth to a still born son in Tasmania in the 50’s, not long after she left her family back in Cornwall to follow her husband out here. It was taken away at birth, she never saw it or even held it, and it was never even spoken of after. She never really came to terms with it apparently, she just got on with life. She was a formidable woman and was very well known and loved in Smithton, but what a thing to have to carry with you your whole life. I was lucky enough to know her well before she passed and I didn’t even know anything about this child until I visited her grave 2 years ago and his name was there.

Could tell the same tale within my own family except she didn't get on with life she went and took a good old swig of metasystox. Can't think of a much worse way to go or a worse frame of mind to be in either.
I never even knew her but there are still family troubled by it to this day.

 

[FonterraFarmer]

I’ll add it to the list of things older people have taught me to judge others on.

- skin colour
- age
- clothes
- sex
- tractors
- height

It’s hard work remembering all the things I need to discriminate against!

You can leave tractors out!!!
Is the Ford /Versatile 876 still for sale up the road?

 

[FonterraFarmer]

but it would never work here!!!