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Pigs and Mud
This is why I think Alex is pregnant. Sheila was shifted down into the back paddock for two reasons . One: she is still fighting Molly through the gates and will cause a problem when the piglets start to arrive. Two: she is getting fat lounging around in the barn. I cannot take her to…
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Eat Not Your Bed
The wind is howling and it is pouring with rain outside as I sit down for my early morning journal. It has been an Easterly – swinging from the Nor/east for days now and this is a cold wind. Worse it blows straight into the farrowing pen. So I shut Mollys big East door last…
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Rush rush
I am hurrying this morning as I have to be off the property at seven. So I am going to move swiftly through the chores. I have been a bit dawdly lately. Molly is still taking her time with her piglets and I am not milking so I am enjoying this slow start to the summer. And yesterday…
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The re-turn of the worm
I rent these fields from Our John’s uncle. And when I first took them over they had been cropped in corn or beans or wheat for at least fifty or sixty years. Since the 70’s chemicals have taken over as the main source of herbicides, fungicides, pesticides ( the suffix cide means to kill so you get…
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Tane Mahuta
You will remember that Tane has been having bad back problems and whether you walk on two legs or four having back and hip problems makes your life difficult to say the least. He had a miserable winter. Most of the winter he rested, he did not walk far, standing, swinging his back legs in…
The Kitchen's Garden 