Category: Farming
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A girl and A peahen
The dog and the turkeys. Will we finally get some tomatoes? Piggie heaven. Here is the girl (our cadet) and her peahen – Geraldine. Geraldine is such an angel of a bird. I called to her and up she came and rushed across, I told The Cadet to sit on the hay bale step that…
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Hi-Jacked
I was taking photos of the Spanish Black turkeys yesterday, .. when I put the camera down to check something and it was Hijacked by Hugo. So now you follow Hugo’s eyes. Sheila needs to go on a diet again.. she is not doing so well sharing quarters with Poppy who was on her…
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Go On, Laugh Out Loud
You will get a laugh out of this lot. A chip off the old block! I finally took Geraldine up to the loft to bond with Mrs Flowers. I checked on them multiple times in the afternoon but other than Geraldine calling out for me, or her turkeys, there were no problems, Mrs Flowers did not…
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How to Move Large Animals
Yesterday it was Sunday (well we all know that already ) and it was Hugo’s day off (and he was lying on the couch with a “cold in his face” – later he got up off the couch and made more of Pats banana pudding as medicine) and John was chain-sawing dried tree trunks from…
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Are you the farmer?
We started very early yesterday morning. Hugo, our friend Bryce towing the trailer with his truck, me and Daisy’s Bobby on his final trip. I always say thank you to an animal when I raise it for food, even the chickens get a thank you as they are carefully packed for their journey. We said…
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