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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.
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Walky about the Farmy
The barn is quiet once more. The wind is down. Everyone was resting yesterday including Mia, she did not have a good morning, so once again I let them out into the forbidden field where it is clean. We are supposed to be letting the grass grow! Everyone else has to wait on the concrete…
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Probiotics for penicillin tummies..
Yesterday I made kefir and yoghurt. Kefir for me and yoghurt for Mia. Yoghurts contain probiotics, a probiotic is the opposite of an antibiotic. And guess who has been shot full of antibiotics. Mia had some of her insides literally dragged through some pretty unclean areas before being washed and tucked back in. We decided…
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Sometimes the news will not be good.
When working with animals things do not always go the way we want them to. Mia has presented with a nasty prolapse. I will not go into details here. There are plenty of sites that will give you those kinds of grisly pictures. She got into trouble yesterday late afternoon. Of course my vet…
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Life in the Fast, oops I mean SLOW, lane!
Early spring is a period of waiting. I make my little seed pots from the seed catalogues. We sow the seeds and wait for the seeds to sprout. We watch the weather each day and wait for it to be warm enough for all the seedlings to go outside into the sun. (Also waiting for…
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The Farmy’s Guest Appearance
Good morning. In a few hours (it is up now)we will be on at Old World Garden Farms. So far this morning they have an interesting article on compost! Well, we all know how Daisy and I feel about our compost! Our farmy post will go up about 9am. (Later: It is up so just click…
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