10. The vet brings a step-ladder for preg-checking.

9. The feed guy gives you caps, jackets, thermometers, rain gauges, calendars and a personal Christmas card but no calculators.

8. The yearling bull you bought develops an inadequacy complex.

7. Before you get out of the pasture, the big round bale you just dropped off is gone.

6. If they weaned off even close to 50 percent of their weight, you’d own the 205-day world record.

5. The 20-ft. stock trailer only holds three cows and you still can’t make it up the hill going to town.

4. Your county agent has had to pencil in a couple of new lines on his frame score chart.

3. Judging by the height of your corral, folks think you’re raising exotic animals.

2. The cows eat over the tops of the bale rings.

1. You’ve been forced to buy one of the Budweiser Clydesdales to use as a rope horse.