š The Audacity of Animals: Why Farm Chores Are a Daily Lesson in Disrespect
If you follow my farm chores videos, you know the drill. Itās early, Iāve got my coffee, Iāve got my fabulous robe, and Iām ready to tackle the endless list of tasks required to keep this menagerie running. But every single morning, without fail, the animals remind me that they don’t care about my schedule, my efforts, or my sanity. The disrespect is real, y’all.
This morningās main antagonists were the goats, bless their stubborn little hearts.
The Great Goat Escape
The first chore was simple: move the goats from their sleeping pen to the main pasture. It requires me to open one gate, stand in the opening like a graceful (and slightly frustrated) shepherd, and let them file through.
Do they file through? Absolutely not.
I open the gate, and the oldest goat, a sassy girl named Beatrice who clearly believes she is the queen of this entire operation, stops dead in her tracks. She stares me down, chews her cud dramatically, and thenāI swear on my finest set of silk pajamasāshe lets out a little huff and proceeds to walk around the gate, forcing me to do a panicked, high-heeled skip to block her.
Then her children follow suit, viewing my attempts to guide them as a fun little game of dodgeball. They duck, they weave, and they definitely tried to untie the knot on my robe. It took me a solid ten minutes of shooing, clapping, and a few choice words that Iām not allowed to print here, just to get them to walk a total of twelve feet. The look on Beatriceās face? Pure, unadulterated contempt. She makes minimum wage look like a vacation.
The Chicken Coup
Next, the chickens. Youād think an animal whose sole purpose is to produce eggs would be cooperative. Wrong.
I was trying to clean out their nesting boxes, a dirty job but a necessary one. I scoop out the old straw, and what happens? One particularly audacious henālet’s call her Karenādecides this is the perfect moment to lay an egg.
She flies into the freshly cleaned box, settling in with a smug look, daring me to move her. I try to gently nudge herā”Excuse me, honey, just trying to clean your penthouse”ābut she responds with a territorial squawk and a firm, unmoving stance. The disrespect isn’t just that she’s inconvenient; itās that sheās actively dirtying the work I just finished, and she knows it. I swear she was looking at me with one eye open, judging my work ethic.
I had to wait ten whole minutes while she completed her task, standing there smelling like chicken droppings, holding a bucket of dirty straw. She finished, hopped out, gave the box a cursory glance as if to say, “Could have been better,” and sauntered off.
The takeaway from todayās farm chores is simple: on the farm, I am not the boss. I am merely the hired help with a slightly better wardrobe. The animals have zero respect for the hands that feed them, and they are not afraid to show it. Itās chaos, itās hilarious, and honestly, itās what keeps these episodes worth filming.
Catch the full episode on YouTube to see the utter chaos of Beatrice the Goatās great escape and Karen the Henās nesting box takeover! 𤣠#farmchores #farmlife
