Category: Life
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Everything in its place
The Easter Chicks are more than happy where they are –but the Turkey House has happy meat chicks in it. Federico has finished The Turkey Brooder House with a circle of windows around the top, so the chicks are draft free down on the floor but well ventilated with pull up sections to let in sun and…
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Route 66 Day
Yesterday we went for a Sunday drive on Saturday – along Route 66. A number of towns along Route 66, which is just 30 minutes from here, hosted what they called the Route 66 Red Carpet Corridor or something like that. And as the day was sunny and still and all the animals were settled and sleeping on the…
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Tick tack
When Mr Flowers has his tail up at full power he does this funny thing. Imagine the tail spread out as an enormous fan, maybe 150 to 200 feathers , now count in ten feathers from the right and imagine the next four feathers on the far right as one panel and four more on…
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Tima and Poppy
I am willing to bet now, that Timatanga Moana is pregnant. There is a certain angle from behind (- so rude) where you can see the pigs belly drooping downwards with the teats quite prominent. Like a bulge. Usually looking at a gilt from behind you see nothing. Now I can see the curve of her…
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Slow DOWN
I sat down last night to look at this paltry assortment of images ready to tell you about my day yesterday but too tired to write it all down. Slow down. My neighbour said when she came over to drop off egg cartons. Are you mental? I called out. She laughed. So: Whose nose is this? Oh…
The Kitchen's Garden 