Farmer Fisher’s Farmyard Friends

One of the first picture books to come into the house – oh gosh – more than 45 years ago, delighted all three of my children, and the adults who read it with them. It’s still sought after, this early edition, but you’ll have to shell out about £25 to get a copy. The book was Farmer Fisher.

Farmer Fisher had a fine fat truck.
You couldn't see the colour for the farmyard muck.
In the front was a rabbit and a chicken and a duck -
On the way to market.

Well. I won’t be showing you a rabbit. I haven’t got a shot of one. Or a chicken. Or a duck. Elke, for this week’s Monochrome Madness would like us to show farmyard animals, so I’m sticking to four legged examples.

Like cows …

… and sheep …

… and pigs …

… and a goat …

… and not forgetting donkeys. Not useful, but easy to love.

And here’s a little library of livestock to finish with.

For Leanne’s Monochrome Madness.

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Author: margaret21

I'm retired and live in North Yorkshire, where I walk , write, volunteer and travel as often as I can.

54 thoughts on “Farmer Fisher’s Farmyard Friends”

  11. I’m not surprised you have plenty of farm animal shots to share, and you’ve got some real corkers among them! Like everyone else it seems, I love the pig, amd those three cows make for an excellent image too, as does the goat 😀

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    1. Do you know, in all the years I read this book with my children, it never once occurred to me what ‘market’ in this context meant to the animals? How dreadful!

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  15. My brother in law is such a pig lover that his children bought him a birthday gift of a walk with a pig. Yes really! You take pigs from the farm and walk them to the river where they splash about. Cue much shaking of heads among other members of our family!

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  21. Another post were I’m drawn to the donkeys! They seem such characters. As pictures, the ones were you got close work best for me, the pig, the goat, the cow’s muzzle (less flies on your cow than on mine!). And I won’t say anything about the piglets. I hope they had more than one mother!

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