Yesterday Tane Mahuta was loaded into Kim’s car and off we went to the vet. Thank Goodness for Kim and her car. After another 79 dollars we discovered that he has thrown his hip out a bit and developed a secondary infection. He has a temperature of 104 degrees (between 100 and 102 is normal) so he has had antibiotics and I will give him three days of an anti-inflammatory.
By yesterday afternoon he was able to get up by himself, without crying. So let’s hope this will be sorted out soon. (For the record his testicles are perfectly normal). Thank goodness.
Other than that the day proceeded in a genteel fashion. Repairing buildings, scooping old barn floors, weeding the garlic, cleaning. I was Kitchen Mama and we all had a lovely slow productive day.
Look at Freya’s little ridgeback. Isn’t that sweet.
Every day lately it seems to have rained. For weeks now. Just when you think we are waterlogged it rains again. I have given up on trying to keep the basement clear of water – the pump will have to deal with it until the water stops coming in then I will sweep it all through. Even the well is overflowing. The lawns and the fields are sloshy. My gumboots are wet from hauling Tane up out of a puddle he was stuck in, the verandah is a continuous farmy mud heap and I think we are all growing webbed feet.
The fields are so wet that the nitrogen is fast being leached out of the soil. Do you see the yellow in field in the distance? That whole field is just about dead. There are many fields like this now. Late plantings are taking it hard. What a mess. We are going around our own vegetable gardens fertilising with fish fertiliser. But we need sun too. We have had very few good sun days.
But there you are. There is no lid on this job – we are at the mercy of the elements. And the plants that are established are growing like triffords. The sunflowers on the South side of the property are as tall as me now and still growing. It is an incredible growing year. So wet and so warm.
Have a lovely day
Your friend on the farmy
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
45 responses to “Tane Mahuta”
Poor Tane – it does sound like he got overexerted when he found his special purpose – bless him 😉
The Vet said that next time i should let him in with her every other day so he has time to regroup. But I hope she is already bred as he won’t be up to much for a while. Poor wee fella. c
Ha ha – I’ve heard of people doing similar things. I doubt that regrouping makes much difference if you get your hip twisted in the heat of the moment 😉
Good point…
Maybe he needs to stretch before putting the moves on Tima. Is there pig yoga? I bet there is.
Brilliant idea!
Sheila will know – I will ask her.. c
Sheila would enjoy a bit of mud yoga 😉
Poor Tane, so pleased he is on the mend and farming is so damn hard some days. Here’s to a happy day C.
🙂 Mandy xo
Have a lovely weekend darling .. I have received an envelope from you! Wonderful.. thank you.. must write .. I look forward to seeing what pops up!.. c
Yippee. I am so pleased it finally arrived. I was sure it went AWOL. xo
Oops poor Tane – I second Mad Dog, seems he got too enthusiastic with his ‘play’ time!
Know what you mean about the plants this year being either growing crazy or not at all. I keep sowing lettuce, but it is too hot to germinate and the storms keep knocking my peas over. Strawberries were poor, got mouldy very quickly, but beans are going great guns. Loads of tomatoes, but they are all green. Sigh as you say we can’t control the weather.
Our strawberries don’t have time to get mouldy – they only ripen in twos and threes, which are gobbled up as soon as they’re red!
Great set of pics…together with the news that Tane’s bollocks are in good order….give him my best wishes for a quick mending of his hip…great post:)
So pleased you now have the answer to Tane’s discomfort. Now to the next injured chick … How is your face? I hope it is healing well. It has been wet and muggy here for the past few days, but just now daylight improved and I see a narrow blue stripe and the sky heater is peeping through!
My face is healing well – i am a fast healer.. c
Bless his furry face and huge Wookie ears, he is so very endearing, our Tane, and clearly has a huge enthusiasm for his work… It does bode well for a future dynasty of Farmy kune kunes.
Doesn’t he have the best ears! c
He does, and the cutest little teeth!
Send some rain our way. We have the sun, but we’ve only had a quarter of our normal rainfall so far this year. No doubt it will pour with rain all through harvest now. Love that little ridgeback.
Cut some hay – that usually brings the rain on.. c
Or wash windows or the car…but for certain and sure…cut the hay!
Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com
I hope your rain learns to behave like in Camelot, and with moderation. Give Tane a hug from me – I know what hurty hips are like.
love,
ViV
I will give him a hug for you!! c
It’s always so odd to me that we’re not that far from you, but we are deep in drought.
It is weird.. you would think that osmosis would take care of some of that.. c
Poor little Tane, I am glad he is on the mend. I can’t wait to see those sunflowers in bloom.
Did our geese ever get there? c
Oh yes, awhile ago, they are in full force now, very naughty with lots of babies about.
I do hope Tane gets better soon!
Tane seems to have posed for his picture for full on sympathy for his plight…that face is amazing. Glad to know that you have the info on why he hasn’t been himself and can go forward. Webbed feet might be quite useful, but I would begin to worry a bit if the fingers begin to get webbing as well…
Always a joy to see a Triffids reference! A common phrase in our house 🙂
That Tane is such a cutie pie! So glad you have worked out what is up with him and that he is on the mend!
Beautiful pictures, Celi. I love that all the animals are allowed to move freely where they want to go or stay. Just paradise, isn’t it? I’m glad for Tane that his suffering has been able to be fixed, it’s a pity that animals can’t tell what’s wrong with them…
And sorry for this huge amount of water you have… Not good at all when fields are dying. Nevertheless I love that Greens everywhere, it looks all so juicy green (no pun intended, I love ‘sap green’ as a color very much) – and it must be heaven for all grazers, isn’t it?
As I am behind a day I just want to add for the “Thongs”: In Tunisia I have heard them being called “Sayonaras”. I loved that term very much, because it reminds me of the footware of Japanese Geishas.
A question, Celi: Do you really love that fish fertiliser? I once had (organic grown) tomatoes as a snack at noon, no meat, no fish alongsides. And in the evening I suffered from a hiccup with a very unpleasant taste of fish. I was wondering about and then googling that and came to know that they use lots of fish fertilizer for tomatoes. Fishy tomatoes. I did not like it at all after that experience. So maybe I just own a super sensible stomach?
BTW – how are the tomatoes doing? Did you (or they) overcome that disease of recently?