Category: Life
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Utero babies
Molly’s belly fairly bubbles with baby movement now. Two or three times every day I go and sit with Molly in her room -the moment she hears me croon, she lays on her side so I can stroke her belly. As long as she can feel me leaning against her she is happy. I encourage this. Farrowing…
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The Farrowing Pen
When a sow stands up, or prepares to lay down, her piglets scatter to the walls or flatten themselves into corners so she does not lie on them or stand on them accidentally. Even a good sows is huge and lumbers about looking for food and watching out for danger. They do not watch their…
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Pigs. Sleep.
This morning I awoke to strong LOUD thunderstorms, pouring rain and strobe lightening that flashes on and on and a severe weather warning beeping on the phone. I merely note the severe weather warnings. They send them out for the most ordinary of weathers. It’s a thunderstorm. Not an extraordinary event. If I did not have…
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Last Light
Yesterday I was in a hurry so I shot all these images using my Iphone. But my constant companion – Phone – hates my laptop. No reason. Just fact. And if I say it often then enough surely it will become a fact? These pictures took 24 hours to appear in my email and…
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I have been working on the creep for Molly’s babies. It is made with walls of straw so is dismantled every winter then remade again in piglet season. The creep is a warm area with deep straw and a heat lamp – this is where the babies sleep, safe from their big mother and extra…
The Kitchen's Garden 