Category: Farming

• Bouncers in the Bee hive and a Most Unsettling Steer

  WELL we all made it through another day and another night in one piece peacefully. Such a beautiful day yesterday. I have decided that TonTon is actually sleeping with Mama because she is casting such a big shadow. Do you see? Mama has a dogs tail, someone is using her as shade. How embarrassing! Daisy…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 17, 2012

  Bees, Farm Animals, Farming, Therapy Dogs

  bees, doormen bees, flies, forsythia, geriatric care, grass, retirement home, The kitchen’s garden, therapy dogs

• Winter left without saying goodbye.. no manners

  I am back.  And so relieved. Not having you to talk to at the beginning of each day was just plain lonely. I would see a picture and have no-one to share it with.  The animals would do something silly but no-one to tell. I am so sorry that took so long. But quite delightfully,…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 16, 2012

  Farming, Flower Garden, Sustainable farming

  flower garden, hay paddock, sowing grass seed, St Joseph

• Hairy MacLairy gets a Pedicure

  Yesterday was fine and warm with only slightly windy winds.  It was a calm steady productive afternoon, I was passing  through the Corridor Paddock where Daisy and Hairy MacLairy were dosing, I took a shot of Hairy and Queenie then I noticing Hairy’s hoof stuck out like as he relaxed, so putting the camera on…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 12, 2012

  Farm Animals, Farming, Sustainable farming

  Barn, challenger car, Dorset sheep. Ayrshire cow, hereford calf, hoof trimming

• Walky about the Farmy

  The barn is quiet once more.  The wind is down. Everyone was resting yesterday including Mia, she did not have a good morning,  so once again I let them out into the forbidden field where it is clean.  We are supposed to be letting the grass grow!  Everyone else has to wait on the concrete…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 9, 2012

  Farming, Sustainable farming

  Carhart bib overalls, cats, chickens, farmy, mama, Mia, The kitchen’s garden

• Probiotics for penicillin tummies..

  Yesterday I made kefir and yoghurt.  Kefir for me and yoghurt for Mia.  Yoghurts contain probiotics,  a probiotic is the opposite of an antibiotic.  And guess who has been shot full of antibiotics.  Mia had some of her insides  literally dragged through some pretty unclean areas before being washed and tucked back in. We decided…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 8, 2012

  Farming, Organic farming

  Home made kefir, Home made yoghurt, kefir, natural remedy, probiotics for sheep, yoghurt