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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.
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Stage Right
Yes. It is that time of year again. The time for the Plonkers to exit stage right. So John has backed the Black Mariah up to the barn door and I have begun to get the pigs familiar with running down the pretend corridor and jumping up into the trailer – by putting their food in…
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Sheila as a horse
I lay on Sheila (my old Hereford pig) as she walked the field in the sun yesterday. She was wandering through the pasture, grazing, but she is so tall, up to my hip that it was easy for me to just slide my body over hers and lie there – she just walked slowly along grunting, with me…
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I do, I promise
I do. I love it here, Honestly I love it here. I love the animals. I love the space. I love my barns and my life, I never lie in bed longer than I have to. I am up and showered and out the door with my wet hair (freezing solid in the cold) flying…
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Tahiti
Tahiti and Molly are the two gilt daughters of Poppy (my Hereford sow) who live here on the farmy. Tahiti is Jake’s gilt and Molly is mine. But Tahiti is the noisiest most robust little pig I have ever had here. And she climbs! She has such a fat face I tell her she should have been…
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Dogging Aunty
As I was going through my pictures to find one last cow picture for the calendar (which is released by the way, so check it out here). I realised that we had very few good shots of Aunty Del. So I set the dogs on the back of the truck and around the corner we…
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