Month: March 2012

• Probiotics for penicillin tummies..

  Yesterday I made kefir and yoghurt.  Kefir for me and yoghurt for Mia.  Yoghurts contain probiotics,  a probiotic is the opposite of an antibiotic.  And guess who has been shot full of antibiotics.  Mia had some of her insides  literally dragged through some pretty unclean areas before being washed and tucked back in. We decided…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 8, 2012

  Farming, Organic farming

  Home made kefir, Home made yoghurt, kefir, natural remedy, probiotics for sheep, yoghurt

• Straight to the good news

  Mia is doing OK, though she lost her lambs.  After I wrote to you yesterday she gave birth to two stillborn tiny prem lambs. The crying from that wee sheep was harrowing.  I shifted her and Mama out of the middle pen after the worst of the messy business was over and  put them in…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 7, 2012

  Farming, Sustainable farming

  Barn, sheep, still born lambs, wind

• Sometimes the news will not be good.

  When working with animals things do not always go the way we want them to. Mia has presented with a nasty prolapse. I will not go into details here. There are plenty of sites that will give you those kinds of grisly pictures.   She got into trouble yesterday late afternoon. Of course my vet…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 6, 2012

  Farming

  Mia, sheep, vaginal prolapse, vet

• Life in the Fast, oops I mean SLOW, lane!

  Early spring is a period of waiting. I make my little seed pots from the seed catalogues. We sow the seeds and wait for the seeds to sprout.  We watch the weather each day and wait for it to be warm enough for all the seedlings to go outside into the sun.  (Also waiting for…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 5, 2012

  Farming, Photography, The Farmy

  hens, paper pots, seedlings, sheep, sky with clouds, sleeping chicken, waiting

• The Farmy’s Guest Appearance

  Good morning. In a few hours (it is up now)we will be on at Old World Garden Farms. So far this morning they have an interesting article on compost! Well, we all know how Daisy and I feel about our compost! Our farmy post will go up about 9am. (Later: It is up so just click…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 4, 2012

  Farming

  blogging, pregnancy, sheep, tulip bulbs