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Selective Weeding.
Even the weeds are sorted and carted off to this animal or that animal or this group of birds. Manu is still a little mystified by real food. But Naomi is doing well at eating her vegetables and weeds and of course Poppy eats everything being a breast feeding mother and all. And all the…
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Videos of Hereford Piglets
Because I think that Hereford piglets are the cutest piglets EVER. And Poppy’s babies are friendly and endlessly sweet. Not too many words today so you can spend time smiling at babies. Amanda’s mother has come for a few days to help out in the gardens. So I am determined to be up and at…
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Natures Way?
Nature is cruel and most of all it is cruel to animals or birds that are not perfect. After watching the pea-chicks roll around their little box, both with one leg out at a right angle, wings spread, miserable, unable even to stand to eat, I decided that there was no way these birds were going…
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The disaster zone
Yesterday I called the farm a disaster zone (after 2 and a 1/2 MORE inches of rain) and the animals must be evacuated to higher ground. Except the pigs who are as happy as .. well.. Pigs. Thoroughly disillusioned we moved the two Bobbys (steers) across the way onto the concrete pad there (they were literally…
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Poor Piglets
Yesterday the boar piglets were castrated. So they did not have a good day. However Poppy was very well behaved and waited patiently outside in the rain until it was over. There are two gilts(girls) (Jake will have one and I will keep the other) and three plonkers. They recover very fast. Can you see this little…
The Kitchen's Garden 