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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.
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Indulge yourself! One day old Lamb Triplets.
Mama and her three lambs are doing well now. Though we had a fright in the afternoon yesterday when Mama started limping badly. Then would not get up to feed. You will remember that she has a chronic problem with inflammation in one of her hooves. Being down meant that she was not feeding her…
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New Lambs: Meet Minty, Meadow and The Murphy
I posted your page yesterday morning then pulled a sweatshirt over my nightie with yoga pants underneath, dragged on my gumboots and popped out to check Mama again before beginning the mornings work. I walked into bedlam. There were four lambs born. Two flat out on the straw and not moving and two struggling…
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A wee wander on the farmy. We won’t go far though.
Daisy has had quite enough of all the fuss about Mama and would like to remind us that she is pregnant too and due in a little over a month. The wind makes her tired. Even though she is a big girl. The wind was so wild yesterday that the guineas and the cats hung…
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How to make organic fertiliser from worm casings.
In the basement I have two worm farms. One is a conventional vertical worm farm that has trays that you layer upwards. I feed the worms a mixture of brown feed and green feed. The brown includes egg cartons, cardboard, coffee grounds, tea leaves, shredded paper, egg shells, dead leaves and in this case the…
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Food I can eat with my eyes!
Do you guys deliver? It is Saturday, the day I usually share some new (to me) blogs with you all. However this week I succumbed to PRETTY! and pretty SIMPLE. So I am being naughty and I have swiped some food pictures to show you. I am not sure if this is OK so don’t…
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