Category: Farming

• A one legged rooster is not really one legged

  The chooks, roosters and the guineas swap feet when they are standing in the cold, one foot up, then that foot down and  then another foot up,  like a wee boy in his thin pajamas showing too much ankle on the cold bathroom floor desperately waiting for the toilet. Hurry UUUUP! His feet taking turns…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 27, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  animal photography, chickens, cows, farm photography, farming, hereford pigs, homesteading, sheep, The kitchen’s garden

• The Duke of Kupa

  When we were children and lived at the beach on a quarter acre section, we had lots of guinea pigs. Thirty-six at one time I remember.  (We were very proud of that number) Males and females, shorthaired and long haired, all colours. The only ones who went into cages were the pregnant mothers, the rest…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 21, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography, Vines and Wine

  dealing with death, death, farming, grieving, mist fog, peacock, rain

• As the snow turns to a dogs delight: slush and mud

  The day stayed well above freezing yesterday. The snow began to melt and all the animals  heads came back up. Incredibly the sparrows indulged in a bird bath. Splashing about in the melting ice. Not quite that warm I thought. But there you are,  I am  not that kind of bird. I opened all the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 20, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  animal photography, Barn, cats, dogs, farm photography, no waste, peacock, pigs, The Duke of Kupa

• Kupa is not better but not worse

  No-one can understand how this big peacock  is still alive. Every breath is so hard won and everything I read tells me that a bird cannot survive such a  massive bacterial  attack for very long and that he should be responding to these antibiotics very quickly or succomb very quickly. Birds do not linger.   But there…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 19, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  barn images, cat in barn, farming, farming in the snow, gasping peacock, sheep in barn, The Duke of Kupa, writing

• The Duke of Kupa is fighting

  The pneumonia is proving hard to break. He just stands in his new big cage and watches me, breathing and breathing out, hauling noisy air through his lungs. But as of yesterdays afternoon he was eating his seed mixed with yoghurt and drinking his potion, plus water. And as of this morning though I can…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 18, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  cow, farm life, farming in the cold, jade mullaly, missing child, peacock, peacock gasping, peahens, pneumonia in peacocks, sheep