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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.
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Slip, Slop, Slap, Splash
This is exactly how we are walking now. Slipping on the ice hidden under the slopping water and slapping and splashing about. Nice though. Huge puddles everywhere. Everything is sloppy wet – because it is warm. By afternoon most of the ice was slush and our work pants were wet to the knees. Gracie fit into one…
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Above freezing!
ABOVE FREEZING! So I shoveled manure for a couple of hours,(still cleaning out the calving pen) then my neighbour and I worked on the goats pen. Goats jump so everything is heightened! They should be arriving in the next few weeks. Then she helped John and I carry one of the pig huts into the…
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Barn Life.
Boo has been banished outside because he was skunked yesterday morning. Poor BooBoo. The skunk off will handle it but I hate the smell of that too. I use this because it is fast and effective. I have never had a dog get skunked at a time when I have lots of spare time to…
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ice and chicks
Sweet chicks. Love at first sight. If one were to use the modified meat chicken’s theory for sexing this would be a female on the left and a male on the right. Do you see the longer feathers on the wings of the female? But the chickens that follow this theory were genetically created by Tyson…
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Last Days –
– of the cold. For a week or so anyway. I am feeling desperate for the warm to come. For just a touch of green. The promise of it makes it seem so much harder to wait. Do you remember that feeling when you were taking an exam and you were on the last two…
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Peafowl Dancers
At least I think it is a dance. When you spend a lot of time watching your own animals and birds and they do something new it is immediately apparent. And entrancing. And hopefully I have the camera, and hopefully they are not in a dark corner. Well I did have Camera house but Godot and…
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