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  • April 8, 2015

    Elsie The Wild

    Elsie The Wild

    I have decided not to try and milk Elsie again. She got progressively worse each time I tried and both of us ended up scraped and sore. (Me flinging myself totally across the room to miss a right cut to my jaw). I could not even get the cups near her yesterday. She kicked out every time I approached.  …

  • April 7, 2015

    A Surprise Baby

    A Surprise Baby

    A real surprise.  Elsie has given birth to a wee heifer. She was already here when I went out to do the chores yesterday morning so the girls got to see her before departing. They had the best visit. The calf  is a beautiful wee bouncy heifer she has the same markings as her mother on…

  • April 6, 2015

    How Long to Hatch an Easter Chick

    How Long to Hatch an Easter Chick

    Or in other words how long does it take for a chicken to hatch after you hear it peeping. And believe me a peeping egg is really weird. But they do.  Peep that is. There is a little reservoir of air in sharp end of their egg and once they bust through into that air…

  • April 5, 2015

    A Farm Day Not Like Every Other Day

    A Farm Day Not Like Every Other Day

    +But a farm day nevertheless. My Life. Sometimes there is no way to describe a whole day on the farm : not in one heading anyway. And though categories and tags defeat me – Aunty Del is still beautiful.  At the Press Publish conference I was taught that “Content is King, but headlines are the…

  • April 4, 2015

    How to tell if your pig is pregnant

    How to tell if your pig is pregnant

    Our pig is pregnant? Isn’t that exciting. Poppy the Hereford gilt (a gilt is a female pig who has not had piglets yet) wishes to announce (though she would prefer NOT to discuss her insides) that she has missed her first heat since being bred.  We have had such a long run of missed breedings,…

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