Today NOT at work

[Greenbeast]

Congratulations.
Just having the one is going to spoil your litter size average a bit though

meh, we're traditional breeds with some useless sows, the average is pretty shocking already

 

[milkloss]

Thought we better sort out a solution for feeding the pigs when i'm old

Well done mate! Make sure you pass congrats onto Charley

 

[Greenbeast]

Well done mate! Make sure you pass congrats onto Charley

yeah she's enjoying the attention, not! she would have kept it a secret till it dropped out in surgery if at all possible

 

[Greenbeast]

If anyone has any suggestions for how to raise a child, while farming, please let me know....

 

[milkloss]

If anyone has any suggestions for how to raise a child, while farming, please let me know....

Just don't listen to all the rose tinted specs rubbish you'll get fed from people with kids 3yrs old and up! They mean well but forget the hard times,and they will happen, but you blunder through

 

[Philip Watkins]

Just don't listen to all the rose tinted specs rubbish you'll get fed from people with kids 3yrs old and up! They mean well but forget the hard times,and they will happen, but you blunder through

Blundering through is the only way. Just make it up as you go along, we did and she turned out not too bad.

 

[Greenbeast]

Blundering through is the only way. Just make it up as you go along, we did and she turned out not too bad.

OH is going back to work quite rapidly as she's the bread-winner and i'll be full time farming by then, gonna be tough i think

 

[Oat]

If anyone has any suggestions for how to raise a child, while farming, please let me know....

Travel cot. It can be folded up and down fairly easy to move, and until the child is big enough to climb out, you can put them in one with some toys and know where they are and have them near you without having to watch them constantly.

Obviously don't leave them in on their own if you are not working in one place

 

[Landyman]

 

[Alicecow]

If anyone has any suggestions for how to raise a child, while farming, please let me know....

Buy all the 'baby magazines ' that you can find, read them from cover to cover, then take them out and burn them!
Arrange to have your wages paid directly to Boots & Mothercare. Sell your sports car and buy a beige Volvo estate.


Only kidding!
Prepare to fall in love like you've never been before. They're hard work at times but sooooooo worth it that you'll wonder how you lived without them

 

[milkloss]

Awake for the last two hours and no sign of sleep for a while: Two year old toddler not understanding its sleep time and keep telling us she needs a crap. Trying to potty train whilst we're away and now she doesn't want to do her business in her nappy!

Fun! Fun! Fun!

























You're stuffed mate

 

[the-mad-welder]

After repeating 'what would you like for breakfast' to two children several times this morning, Shredded Wheat are now officially renamed 'I Don't Know'.

 

[Pan mixer]

Our eldest managed in a back-pack for some time, she used to watch over my shoulder all the time. I do remember thinking that she might get a warped sense of what fathers get up to whilst sewing up a prolapsed sow one Christmas morning.

She is nearly 30 now and doesn't like farming.

 

[solo]

Did a bit of over the hedge farming yesterday and came across this field of pumpkins.

The wife participating in the Birmingham velo along with 15000 others. 85 miles done with 15 left to the finish.

 

[Friesianfan]

Well this happened today

 

[Alicecow]

Well this happened today

Congratulations

 

[Landyman]

Well this happened today

Do you not have a telly



Well done by the way

 

[Pilgrimmick]

Do you not have a telly



Well done by the way

Fantastic!

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Congratulations.

 

[Friesianfan]

Do you not have a telly



Well done by the way

My brother says that! Last one though so will have to find something worth watching. I think I might struggle!