Category: Life
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A box of birds

More chicks arrived in the post yesterday. These are the chickens I will grow for a number of family freezers. It will take 8 weeks. I will grow two waves of chickens for the freezers. I hope to start another set in 5 weeks time. Each chick is given a drink as I take it out…
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Flux

Every time another change happens on the farmy I need to pause, reset, and adjust so that I can sensibly create another workable routine. I have a milk cow, a beef cow, dairy calf, beef calves, sheep, pigs, chickens, big ones and little ones and baby chicks, peacocks, peahens, the ducklings, dogs, bees, cats and Tima, (Tima the Naughty is…
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I got it wrong

This little calf does not want to be called Aida she wants to be called Del. She is so calm and so sweet, there is not one fussy bone in her body. She has no aspirations for the stage, and no interest in tragedy. She reminds me so intensely of my Aunty Del that I have…
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Godot

And his sidekick Mr Carlos Garcia have been released. It took some fast talking but if I promised that the girls would stay in for a few more weeks then the boys could come out already. They have promised Our John the Head Gardener not to wander into the vegetable gardens. Cross our hearts and hope…


