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The gangs all here
Aunty Del has come back to the home paddocks. She very happily leapt up into the stock trailer and I drove her over from the West Farm. I missed her. She brought Lady Astor’s bobby with her. She spent quite a bit of time leaning over the fence watching Wai the litte rescue potbelly waddle…
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You sure?
BooBoo comes with me every evening to put the cows through to their evening field. We have to move Lady Astor far away from the barn where her big calf sleeps or she opens the door and lets him out. He is stood here looking at me for the “bring ’em up” instruction. When I…
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So cool
This morning it is 54F (12C). Not cold in wintery terms but downright chilly in the language of a midwest summer. All the animals are more than happy about it though. Except the wee chicks. It is very good for the meat chickens who are nearing their butchering weight. The compost is almost completely combined…
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How to: BooBoo’s torn ACL
Diane, a founding member of the Fellowship of the Farmy who has been reading since the very first day of the blog asked me a question this week about her blue heeler who has a torn ACL. (This link has a good picture of the problem). She has also decided not to go the…
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What happened?
I am sitting here in the early morning, listening to the dawn (though it is not quite dawn) chorus of the chickens in their hen house. They do this every morning. Noisy calesthenics. They screech and bob and call out for up to a minute – the lot of them – not just roosters –…
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