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<blockquote data-quote="Gale Seddon" data-source="post: 69671" data-attributes="member: 53"><p>It's always a challenge to find anyone reliable to keep an eye on our animals when we are away, which is usually for a donkey show or a fair. I won't leave if we're expecting a calf or foal. If the event is within an hour's drive, my husband stays over in the trailer and I commute back and forth so I can feed, etc., and then meet up at the event...makes for long days, no wonder those things make you tired! </p><p></p><p>It's nearly impossible to find someone willing to come out part-time on the weekends to help us with stuff; nobody wants to exert themselves or do physical labor (God forbid they should work up a sweat!). And I'm talking $8-$10/hour here! Had one fella for a month or so, every weekend, and he was dumb as a box of hammer handles (weed-whacking with no string?) and he finally gave up after falling down twice (first backwards, then forwards) in the mud one rainy day (I referred to him as "the missing link"); had to pull him out of the mud with a broom handle, hard to keep from laughing that day. Another one kept bringing his two kids, 7 and 8, with him so they could "experience farm life" -- and guess who had to keep an eye on them? (Caught the younger one tossing an old axe-head at his brother!) Had a lady for one visit, showed her how to clean the chicken coop; I knew she was doomed when she walked in and kept saying "excuse me, please" to the hens. A good friend took over for me one weekend last year and only thing was she fed cow grain to the donkeys and vice versa...unmedicated grain, thankfully, so no problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gale Seddon, post: 69671, member: 53"] It's always a challenge to find anyone reliable to keep an eye on our animals when we are away, which is usually for a donkey show or a fair. I won't leave if we're expecting a calf or foal. If the event is within an hour's drive, my husband stays over in the trailer and I commute back and forth so I can feed, etc., and then meet up at the event...makes for long days, no wonder those things make you tired! It's nearly impossible to find someone willing to come out part-time on the weekends to help us with stuff; nobody wants to exert themselves or do physical labor (God forbid they should work up a sweat!). And I'm talking $8-$10/hour here! Had one fella for a month or so, every weekend, and he was dumb as a box of hammer handles (weed-whacking with no string?) and he finally gave up after falling down twice (first backwards, then forwards) in the mud one rainy day (I referred to him as "the missing link"); had to pull him out of the mud with a broom handle, hard to keep from laughing that day. Another one kept bringing his two kids, 7 and 8, with him so they could "experience farm life" -- and guess who had to keep an eye on them? (Caught the younger one tossing an old axe-head at his brother!) Had a lady for one visit, showed her how to clean the chicken coop; I knew she was doomed when she walked in and kept saying "excuse me, please" to the hens. A good friend took over for me one weekend last year and only thing was she fed cow grain to the donkeys and vice versa...unmedicated grain, thankfully, so no problems. [/QUOTE]
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