Favorite sounds on the farm. What's yours?

There ain't nothing like a 2 cylinder John Deere!

Nothing. The silence is what I like. Having lived in the city for so long it's the lack of cars going by at 3AM with loud thumping music and sirens and helicopters and airplanes and the neighbors and, and, and...that's what I like.

I do like the sounds of the chickens when they are resting. It's very soothing.

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Great thread!
I love the sound the of the pigeons cooing up in the silo as the sun is going down.
I love the sounds of canadian geese going over, announcing the season will soon change...
I love the sound of someone playing a lone musical instrument off in the
distance ...
sometimes I hear flute, sometimes a banjo...

I love the sound of the curtains flapping in a breezy window, or sheets on the line, and the squeaky spring on the screen door - and then the slam!!

I had horses for 25 years. In the winter I would come home from work in the evening and go down to the barn to feed. The horses' initial banging in their feed pans finally yeilded to a contented crunching on thier hay. Crunchh, crunchh, crunchh. Such a peaceful, satisfying sound.

I also love the sound of the spring peepers. I would look forward every year to early spring when they would start up around 4 oclock in the afternoon and go on until the wee hours of the morning. That was back in Pennsylvania. We don't have spring peepers here in Montana, and I can honestly say that's the only thing I miss about living back east.

Oh, yes, I love the sounds of my little hens as they go about their business, scratching and pecking at the grass in the yard. It seems that they are talking to themselves as they quietly cluck and mutter.....

Even before I read this thread, I was struck this morning by the many sounds going on. All the windows are open in this heat, and I got up at 4am. Even then I could hear my turkey mama softly purring to her babies under the kitchen window. The roosters were starting to crow under the setting orange moon. Once i turned on the kitchen light so I could make coffee, the goats in the next field knew someone was awake and starting calling for breakfast and attention. That set off the calves in the barn who set off the tom turkeys who encouraged the roosters to crow more. The geese came off the pond to get in line for breakfast at the barn. At 5 we went out to start feeding, and Toby the donkey spied us from up the hill and started his caterwauling. All the songbirds were in full swing by this time. As I filled feed buckets, I could hear the rhythmic squish from the calves drinking from their buckets. The pigs let out high-pitched squeals of delight that echoed down to lower depths when DH came with their meal. The roosters let out happy bipbipbips when I came to their respective harems and gave them fresh water and food for the day.
Just all of it today, even though the chores were the same as the days before and will be the same for days to come, stood out and shone as a particular sparkling moment of sound.

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Coventry49,

I'll be down in your area in mid August. I was raised at Silesia and my Mom lives between there and Laurel. Sure miss that country, I'm the only one in my family that doesn't live there. Hope to find a job there before I retire close to our farm and take it over. It's not big enough to support a person full time, but I could raise a lot of cattle on it.

Bobg

My ducks Quacking around 4:00 AM, Then the roster and the sheep down the road. I can't say I love the grass seed farmers haying off the fields a 1:00 in the morrning, is not one of my favorite sounds, but I do love to know I live out in a farming community, and won't traded it for anything. Now just to get our cows, Moo.

The roosters crowing, the gobblers gobbling, the mockingbirds singing in the spring and the children laughing in the yard.

On of my favorite games to play is "close your eyes and tell me what you hear."
When we are sitting around a camp fire out in the yard on a cool evening I ask this question.
It gets everyone quiet and lets them apreciate the wonderful sounds of the evening in the country.
I usually hear the tree frogs and many other night bugs, the cattle in the pasture across the river, the coyotes calling to each other in front of us and behind us, bull frogs on the river bank, the whip-o-will in the woods behind us,footsteps in the woods that could be many different animals, an owl.
My farm animals are usually very quiet by that time of day and asleep in the barn.
Yes, we can hear a truck over on the road across the river or even a car or truck comming down our own road but this is nothing like the noise of the city.

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Yup that square baler sound is a fav. especially up close and working right! the bale elevators clickity clack into the mow, pretty much all the animal sounds (except all at once) but cows chewing their cuds must be in the top three of those sounds. Puppies you gotta luv new born puppy squeeks.

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The mockingbird at 2:00 A.M.
Otherwise, there's a whole orchestra tuning up!

I enjoy the noise our Dexter bulls make. Not the bawling and bellowing. Just the "muttering and grumbling" noises they make complaining to themselves as they plod to the barn lot each evening from the pasture. Almost anyone that has been around a bull will know what I'm talking about.

My favorite sound is the low rumble of the horses when I open the barn door early on a winter morning. I also love the first nicker from momma to foal. Oh, and the purring of a cat sleeping next to my pillow.

Stacy

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you guys are really making me pine for the country. Ah yes.. only 2 years to go

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I can't believe no one said.................the sound of the bullfrogs on a hot summer night and during the day too. That's my favorite sound. I miss hearing it here. BUT I get to hear it at my FIL's when I stop over.

Here on our farm I love the birds in the morning and that first little grunt from the pig that sets everyone in the barn going when he here's me heading up to the barn to feed them.

I miss the sound of the little peeps since they are now all clucking but that is a nice sound too.

The goats bleating drives my husband crazy but I love it! The way they call out to you wanting to be pet and brushed.

I guess all the sounds on the farm are pretty special. Except the tractors. I only dislike them because when I hear them from the house it means I didn't get out there fast enough to be the one operating them. I love to ride the tractors and cut the fields. I find it very relaxing.

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SparrowHill you can come visit here at Topaz Farm and hear all the bobwhites you want to. They come right up in my yard.

In the spring I listen for the first Bob-White to bob white and the whip-o-will.

I love the doves coo, we have 3 kinds here. And the cardinals song. The doves and the red birds remind me of my grandparents’ place.

I love it when my horses nicker at me. An the foals little attempt at nickering. We have chickens now and I like hearing the roosters and the chickens.

I guess I like all the country sounds.

I love the sounds of the country.....including the silence. I was glad to read that I am not the only one that loves the sound of a square baler that is running well. I thought perhaps I would be a weird one I love getting up in the morning before the sun even starts to come up and it is really dark. I like to sit out on the deck with a cup of coffee and wait for the very first sound of the very first bird in the morning. I love to hear the bullfrogs out on the pond at night and the call of the sandhill cranes in the distance. The sound I think I will miss until my dying day is the sound my horse use to make when she first saw me in the morning. I would hate to live someplace where I didn't hear a rooster crow in the morning or the call of a mockingbird. Neat thread!!

Talk about counting your blessings...
I think this is a pretty good list that is sure to make you smile

Nope, you are in good company.

I especially love when you hear a rooster crow for the first time. That akward squeek is just awesome!

I love to try and find out who it is, which can be hard when you have dozens of them running around!

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On the place where we live now, I like the sound the windmill makes in certain wind conditions. It's almost a wail or a groan. Imagine a South Dakotan liking something about the wind!