Category: homesteading
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Yesterday I lost one of Poppy’s piglets. She looked a bit off on Friday evening, stopped eating on Saturday, did not respond to the usual treatments and died yesterday morning. I don’t know. I take these things hard. She had no symptoms at all. No scours. No vomiting. No cough. But something was happening inside her. There…
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In-Heriting those ears
Txiki has inherited her ears from her red head mother. Txiki’s mother is Alex, the little red cow who looks like a shaggy mountain pony – Alex is spending time with Carlos the Tiny. Both are Dexters. Txiki (Alex’s daughter) is a cross between a Dexter and a low line Angus, she looks like a shiny…
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Sheila the Thief
Sheila my Big Fat Pig is being VERY NAUGHTY. I could not work out why the calves were spending so much time out of their nice big shelter in the Rat House, so this afternoon I went in to see what was going on. I pushed through the mob to see what had caught their…
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The dark-en deepen-eth
The nights are coming so early and the clouds have been so thick and low lately that it seems to me I have to start evening chores straight after lunch or I won’t be done by dark. Sunset is at 4.24pm. Luckily Our John has taken to the milking and is doing very well, so…
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Tane goes for a walk
I locked up all the feed and opened the gates for Tima and Tane to go for a walk yesterday. Tima and Tane are an old married couple (both kunekune pigs) who have lived together for years. He has bad legs and she is a nosy fat Mama. Tima took off like a shot and…
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