Category: Farm Animals

• The Heat is On for Mama’s Butter Cake

  The high nineties is hot. Add the dry wind and it is very hot. All the animals have different coping mechanisms. The Matriarchs dog has decided that he would rather ride than walk.  So he sits like a mini king in his chariot. And the Tall Teenager pedals him all over the county on their…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 20, 2012

  Farm Animals, Life, Photography, Recipes, Sustainable farming

  butter cake, cows, pigs in the heat, sheep, the heat

• Pig escape Thwarted by Heifer

  Well, all my plans for a couple of  hours off, yesterday afternoon, were in vain.  The farmy had other plans.  Hairy Maclairy decided to stage a break in into the Milking Parlour.  A space he is not allowed to visit.   The Shush Sisters were re-homed into the pig sty. They literally romped in all…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 7, 2012

  Farm Animals, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  camera, cow, Dorset ram, escaped pigs, fencing, images, laptop, peacock, peahens

• Caught on film with her head in a Pig Trough!

  First we need a lesson in topping. I hate topping.  Topping is when you mow the tops off the pasture in the fields. We have more grass than stock this year which is good. And was in the sustainable plan.  We are not at full strength as far as stock goes.   Not yet. I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 4, 2012

  Farm Animals, Humour, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  Ayrshire almost ready to calve, hereford pigs, peacock, peahen, topping pasture

• In my kitchen and Sheila the Babe comes today

  It is dawn of  June the 1st here. Celia over at Fig Jam and Lime Cordial has a little tradition of greeting the new month with a look at some of the new bits and pieces in her kitchen.  And she very kindly invites us to do the same. As we are still waiting for Daisy…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 1, 2012

  Farm Animals, Sustainable farming

  cat playing with pig, cow, golden syrup, in my kitchen, lemon squeezer, recycling

• The Sleepy Eye of my Mind

  When I first dreamed of having peacocks, this was the scene I saw in the sleepy eye of my mind. Kupa up on a fence surveying the farmy.  His colours  flashing but somehow blending with the surroundings. A tail like a collection of impossibly precious emerald brooches draped so casually across  the rustic fence.  Kupa…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 31, 2012

  Farm Animals, Life, Sustainable farming, The Farmy

  guinea fowl image, lamb with cat, lamb with guineas, old people, peacocks image, responsibility, retirement homes