Rural kids, parents angry about Labor Dept rule banning farm chores

Same here.  I even drove Granddaddy's big combine, and certainly spent a lot of time with the animals.  Is it considering hurting the animal to milk the cow?  Or brand cattle?  I've done both of those. On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Erika L. Rich <elrich@ruwebby.com> wrote: > > I'm so glad this wasn't in effect when I was a kid. I started doing all > this at 9 until my 20's. Driving tractors (my first tractor at age 9 was a > John Deere 4010), feeding livestock, helping run machinery, holding calves > for vet inspection, bailing hay, helping build barns, you name it. Damn. > those were some of the best years of my life. The Government is so fecking > stupid sometimes.