The pears have petered out except for a last few left in my fruit bowl and now the cows have been switched to pumpkins for their milking treat. The cream in the milk when I was milking on pears was amazing. The pumpkins make for a rich heavy cream. I found some reasonably priced lemons at the supermarket the other day so today I will make more marscapone. And more ricotta salata for the winter.
Yesterday 4 of Molly’s tribe (3 month old pigs) were sold to another farm. They were transported in our stock trailer but to catch them I threw a little food into a big dog crate – they ran in, I shut the door then their new owner and I lifted the box and carried them to the trailer. No squeals, no frights, no worries. Just a heavy lift. The hardest part was getting only ONE pig to run into the crate, I would have three or four trying to jam their heads in there like porcine key-stone cops. Plus they really were too big for the box so it was an uncomfortable few minutes for them.
They are growing fast.So, the four greediest have gone. Now the last nine will get a better shot at the bowls of milk and boiled eggs and vegetables (pumpkins too) and whole milk soaked grains and they will grow even faster now.
Six more will leave in December leaving three to be grown on over the winter.
The fatties are going to a good home and I am confident they will behave themselves. Unlike Poppy’s tiny chubby children who will not stay within their fences and keep appearing (much to their delight) on the driveway. They are easy enough to get back into their own garden, with Boo’s help, but it seems that every day they are finding ways to escape so every day I am barricading up another hole.
At some point this winter I am going to remake that whole fence-line.
The babies have grown so much in the last week that their warm light has been turned off for a number of days now and they have graduated to the big, dog house which I have fitted into their creep. I like them to have their own roof and they love being able to snuggle up together. Pigs are sweet like that. Every pig I know (except Sheila who hates pigs) loves to snuggle up. 
Good morning. The weather continues to be warm and still. And in the night the readers of the kitchens garden tipped over the 6000 mark. Thank you! Don’t forget to introduce yourselves in the Join Us page in the Menu above.
I can hear the calves bellowing to be let out onto the grass again. They are doing very well. I hope you have a lovely day.
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
36 responses to “Pumpkins for cows”
I hope my posting your blog daily on my facebook has helped!
Oops! Hit the wrong button! I’ve tried to introduce myself several times, but always in the wrong spot here, Hope it’s OK here…. My name is Sunny and we live on a small farm in the mountains very close to Yosemite, CA My hub and I raise chickens for eggs only. Seems ‘the good die young’, so we’ve never used them for meat. We had with 30+ a couple of summers ago, but with coyotes, bears and raccoons taking their toll, we’re down to 4 little missys and 2 misters. Come Spring, we’ll raise more chicks in our bathtub in the house till it’s warm enough to move them outside to the little girls’ quarters. Then, when they’re big enough, incorporate them with the older gals. We have enough eggs to trade with the neighbors for veggies and fruits from their gardens. We sell them for $2/doz, even though they run much higher in the stores here. We do it for the pleasure, our friends, and for our personal use.
I’m so sorry we lost our Lurch, but I love wearing my T-shirt and explaining it’s meaning.
In your words, “Have a nice day”!
Wow! 6,000 readers!! Congrats Cinders! Whoa…I saw it is now 6,001…I wonder who that 1 person is? The very newest fellow follower to the Kitchen’s Garden! Can you share your marscapone recipe C? I just happen to have some lovely lemons I would like to use up too! Those pesky piglets running amok and escaping…They must be dang cute to watch though! 🙂
Congratulations on 6000!!! Lovely pumpkins and Aunty Del edged in gold. This is a very pleasant autumn so far and I’m enjoying it. How often to you get to sit outside in shirtsleeves on November 6th? It does cool down a lot faster then during the summer, but it was a wonderful day to be outside and watching leaves drifting down.
Wow – congratulations – 6,000 followers – AMAZING!! I totally understand why – there’s always so much going on at the ‘farmy’!! ; o )
SO remember the day I asked whether you had noticed that you had passed ONE thousand? Congratulations on that exponential growth in readership!! And methinks your piglets [and other four-leggeds] eat better than many humans do – milk and boiled eggs and now pumpkins . . . glad there is a small exodus with fewer to feed and a little money coming in . . .
I never knew you could make cream out of pumpkins! The pumpkins look darling. It must be fun to live on a farm!
Check out my latest baking/pumpkin post at https://courtneylivin.wordpress.com/2016/11/07/baking-for-days/
Pumpkin cream…that sounds yummy. I well remember when our farmer’s milk cows got into onion grass…
Lovely to think of 6000+ people tuning into The Farmy for a fix of what real life should be like ♡
Haven’t visited your farm for quite a while….good to see everything is as it should be…love those piglets:)
Hey Celi 6000 .. wow that’s fab! 😄