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Day Off
Morning darlings. I have discovered that if I sing the score of The Sound of Music, Daisy stands quietly to be milked. Apparently she is tired of Oklahoma and South Pacific! Ah well. One does what one must. Unless something very exciting happens, that I desperately need to tell you, I am going to take…
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All pigs Love milk
Especially this pig. This fat plonker who tries to climb the fence to get to the milk first. Those pigs may be in the running for the Christmas calender shot. Remind me to put it in the appropriate folder. We are still flat out gardening. Some of us move faster than others though. The chickens…
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A Hot day – Yay
Glorious, glorious hot day. I am going to put a sign on the track. If You drive down here into my back yard and complain about the HEAT I will bite my thumb at you! There. That will show them. Someone has a dimple! The chickens across the Way .. my official farm name is Kelly Creek…
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A box of birds
More chicks arrived in the post yesterday. These are the chickens I will grow for a number of family freezers. It will take 8 weeks. I will grow two waves of chickens for the freezers. I hope to start another set in 5 weeks time. Each chick is given a drink as I take it out…
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Flux
Every time another change happens on the farmy I need to pause, reset, and adjust so that I can sensibly create another workable routine. I have a milk cow, a beef cow, dairy calf, beef calves, sheep, pigs, chickens, big ones and little ones and baby chicks, peacocks, peahens, the ducklings, dogs, bees, cats and Tima, (Tima the Naughty is…
The Kitchen's Garden 