Jerry I agree with you. You dairy guys were married to those cows. Even though I never milked, except when I helped my uncle out, I know how much work milking is.
I too got burned out on livestock.
Dad had a part time business that took off about the time I was a freshman in High School. So every morning and night I had to either help with or do the hog and cattle chores myself.
I received no financial gain from it. Dad needed every penny to pay the mortgage on the farm. By the time I was a junior I was doing the chores myself and working late nights 30 hours a week at a supper club to make some money for myself.
After high school I continued to care for the livestock on shares for dad. We 75 stock cows and about 100 sows and all there offspring. In the 80's I had to take an off farm job and still care for the livestock to make ends meet.There was no such thing as a weekend off. I was busy grinding feed and hauling manure so I could work in town during the week. And I still had 3 to 4 hours of chores everyday. In the mid 90's when hogs hit 13 cents a pound and a disease problem set in the hogs went down the road. What a relief on my back.
After some health issues of my own in 2005 I decided I was not gonna tie myself to the farm much longer. In 2009 the cows went down the road as well. Now if I want to get away for a week or two in between crop farming I can.
I have found there is life after livestock farming and it is great.
I kept a little equipment in case the grandkids wanted some livestock for 4H projects. But I am kinda hoping they don't.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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