Category: homesteading
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Think Like a Cow
OR: How to load a single cow into a stock trailer. I have been mulling this post over for a few weeks now. Thinking like a cow. Because often when we have to move an animal somewhere strange, (like into a stock trailer) or across dangerous terrain (like concrete covered in a sheet of ice, or…
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What do you think?
The eggs were put into the incubator on Sunday at lunchtime. Here they are in front of the candling torch four days later. Now this is way too early of course and the wrong way around. One should candle the egg from the large end where the chick actually grows. Like this. (below) They…
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Cold Feet
It is a measure of Sheila’s trust in me that she would trudge all the way across the snow drift that has had her cooped up all this time and come out for a walk. (Though she has balked at it three days running so I guess she trusts me when she feels like it) . …
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Sheila Snores
Did you know that? She is a great old snorer. Though you will only hear the snoring if you creep very, very quietly into the barn with ears at the ready. Pigs have incredibly good hearing. And the moment they hear a sound out of the ordinary they jump sideways then freeze and listen. This is why…
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No more crying!!
Let’s look at happy stuff instead. Thank you for yesterdays comments – you are a deep and wondrous group of people. You are The Fellowship. I could not do it without you. Cold but happy. A black and white pig after eating tomato soup for lunch. BooBoo jumps into the pigs corridor. Gotcha, says Poppy.…
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