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What cold looks like
By the time I got in last night from feeding and bedding down all the creatures it was 16 degrees (-8C) . With wind. They were forecasting an overnight temperature of 7F (-13C) but I have not checked to see what it went down to yet. And it is getting colder – much colder before it warms…
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Flip Side
And so it started to snow. Just a little bit for a long time. And still it was not cold. Not really cold. Just snowing cold. But quite, quite different from the last few weeks of mild winter. Not one of the animals changed any of their behaviours. Only the Miss C animal. I did…
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Bleeding Warmth
Yesterday our warm spell began to bleed away. The warmth bled out of the landscape. There is a cold spell coming and it will last until I leave here. We will be below freezing for a week. Fair enough. I am off to the Southern Hemisphere in a week where it is warm. I can deal with…
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Sheila is a tall girl
Sheila is 72 inches long ( 6 foot, 182cm) and her girth is 68 inches ( 172cm). She is 34 inches high at the highest point of her back and when I measured her girth I could not reach all the way around her, I had to lean over her back and kind of throw…
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Guess how much Sheila weighs!
A competition for us. Go on guess. How much do you think Sheila weighs? I finally took my dressmakers tape out to the barn to measure her and then applied the equation and the result is pretty close to her actual weight they say. So I have the answer in my mind. What you do is measure your pigs length from…
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