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Buying Calves
The other day I was offered two Holstein/Angus cross calves and after some deliberation and research I have decided to buy them.(Though I will also need to buy more hay for their winter feed). So today I will drag the stock trailer out to their farm and collect them. One is a heifer and one…
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Pigs in the Root Cellar
Lists are so boring but so essential don’t you think. Every Monday morning I try to make a decent list of the weeks work. But this morning my mind seems to have slipped into a blank state. So I am writing to you instead. On the weekend we shifted Aunty Anna (the shorthorn/hereford cross)…
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One Image Thrice
It is Sunday. So I am really not here at all but wanted to share this one very quickly with you. Poppy and her piglets are ranging far and wide. She just wanders about and they tumble after her like kittens. There is a video of Poppy and her babies wandering about in Instagram if…
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Sneaky Sip and Save the Planet
It was warm enough yesterday for Poppy to take all her piglets oout into their backyard. The babies will come out with her for a while then scamper back under their warm light. Poppy has collected some sticky weed seeds in her tail again, I must deal with that today. See that cheeky piglet having…
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The Waiting Room
When it is almost time for the cows to be milked I open the waiting room and they stroll in and eat hay while waiting for me to get ready. They are usually an hour or so in there so I sure that they have attended to their bathroom business before coming into my clean milking…
The Kitchen's Garden 