Category: Farm Animals
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We Can Do This
After months of clear weather the sky out here in central Illinois has turned sullen and leaden. Days of it. Right until sunset then the sun fans her elegant fingers into the gap between sky and low clouds and the world lilts into spectacular panoramic colour. The sky lifts her petticoat clouds just a little…
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Keeping Food out of Dumpsters
I am working through my list, getting the last things ticked off before I leave for the antipodes in a couple of weeks. The winter wall has gone up for the hens. This is an old ping pong table we found that fits almost completely across the lower front of the chook house. It took…
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Sharing The Puddle
For some extraordinary reason – puddles have better water than bowls. Especially in the rain. The retirement home for chooks is growing! Though this one black chicken in the front of the above shot is a layer. When we sort out the hen house she will go back in. Some of the roosters are being…
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A Pumpkin a day keeps the Doctor Away
The cows are eating six or seven pumpkins a day. The pigs eat one between them. Even the chickens eat pumpkin! But I think it might take a while to get through our huge load. This image (below) was taken at the property of the boy down the road who grew and sold almost 5000…
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Winterizing the Pond
How did it get to be Friday already? Natures brilliant colour is summers last hurrah. Summers departure is now imminent. Cold is coming. The chimneys have been cleaned and the big fire is lit. I had an excellent discussion with a pond person the other day; trying to get my head around preparing the fish…
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