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Haymaking makes my Skinny Girlie Arms Ache.
A good ache though. Yesterday I made an electric fence run out the North side of the Barn for our slinky swine. This is primarily so that the pigs can root in the dirt. They get a lot of their essential minerals from the soil. Daisy and I went through our twice daily routine…
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Learning Lessons from The Farm
We had a recovery day yesterday. The little chicks are all doing well. The badly hurt one may never walk properly again though. However she is getting herself to her food and drink and stays close to her company through the cage walls. Chooks are pretty tough. There was the gentle raking of the rained-on…
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Hawks Love Young Chicks
When I returned from buying feed yesterday morning, the guineas were shrieking up a storm. Imagine a highly strung young matron throwing her apron over her face and running screaming in circles, then you have a reasonable description of the guineas when they see a hawk. The guineas do not yell at cars or stray…
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Calling all Marmite Hoarders!
Lambs are natural escape artists. They have a tendency to leak through fences. Minty was winding herself around my ankles like a cat so getting her in the shot was impossible. These two were inspecting the trucks. Soon Mama started to make a racket and they darted back through the fence like good little lambs.…
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My Mother called it Crying Tired
That tired. So tired that the yawn splits your face and you forget to cover your mouth with your paw. So tired that you have to lie down to eat and you don’t care who sees. So tired that you don’t even talk to your friends anymore, you just all lay about under a tree…
The Kitchen's Garden 