Category: Farming
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The Best Mother’s Day Gift is not a Toad
No, it is not a toad. Unless of course Mum loves toads or your Toad lives in a Hall. The best Mother’s Day present is probably not a skinny nosy chicken. Better to have a fat one, served with roasted rosemary potatoes and gravy scented with orange zest. The best Mother’s day present is not…
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Love at First Sight. Kupa, The Romantic Peacock !
On our return from the Bantam Swap, I placed the cage, with Kupa’s surprise, into the still empty turkey enclosure and left the cage door open while closing the pen door. This was so Kupa could see but not touch for a wee while. I had no idea how peacocks behave with strangers. Kupa was…
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Queenie is sent to Coventry for Picking Fights…
..With Pigs. Yes you read right. Queenie Wineti my sweet little Hereford heifer was caught picking a fight with a small PIG. It started out as such a soft and gentle misty day. The animals all slept in. The peacock added his new found calls to the usual barnyard noises. I went to bed with…
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Growing Good Grass in Spring Storms
Yesterday morning, after doing the chores and various jobs around the farmy, Big Dog, TonTon, Mary’s Cat and I went for our usual early morning walk through the long grass down by the creek which is now a ditch, and along the fences, checking the boundaries, and out into the new fields. To grow…
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Don’t you know it is rude to Stare!
Yesterday the bees were out. The two remaining hives seem to be doing very well. When my help is home on the weekend we will look inside their hives and do a health check. Kupa was caught going about his ablutions. Vigorously. He has reminded me that I promised to go to the Bantam Swap…
The Kitchen's Garden 