ihsteve - 6/22/2025 08:01 Cut down to eight or 10 cows or even less, a really great way to build your herd if you only start from the best ones, slowly build for your retirement years, and you can do chores twice a week and otherwise just observe them.Become interested in what your son is interested in, we all have it backwards, we expect our kids to love what we love or at a minimum be extremely dedicated to it. I work with a bunch of people that can barely say the word Farm without spitting because they grew up with a taskmaster, either actually or perceived. We fall into an assumption that other people are going to love it all as much as we do. If your parents had a business cleaning toilets in factories, I’m not sure we would automatically assume that our kids should be all over that as well. For some people farming is the equivalent of cleaning toilets. Great post. Early on I remember working at several major ag and industrial machinery companies with engineers that grew up on midwest 50-60 cow dairy farms. They were generally hard workers but never wanted to see another cow as long as they lived. Overworked as a kid and that stuck with them. Let the kids be kids, let them choose what they want to do. Give them choices whenever possible. Kids do need responsibilities and jobs appropriate for their age that help the family, but they are not indentured slaves.
Edited by Jim 6/22/2025 21:00
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do you miss the cows?
