Category: Vines and Wine
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Poor Piglets
Yesterday the boar piglets were castrated. So they did not have a good day. However Poppy was very well behaved and waited patiently outside in the rain until it was over. There are two gilts(girls) (Jake will have one and I will keep the other) and three plonkers. They recover very fast. Can you see this little…
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Frustrating
Now that the meat chickens are in the freezer there is a field free and the cows have been re-organized . And all last night they noisily protested. But they will settle down after a day or two. Queenies Bobby and Aunty Del go across the way today. Queenies bobby is the noisiest so I…
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5 piglets +1 boar +3 carlottas
= A perfectly busy day. Poppy woke up mid morning (yesterday) rolled over and discovered that there were five little piglets in her room. She stood up and looked at them milling about her feet making half hearted jumps at her teats, then she looked at me and quite clearly said “What the hell is…
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Two perfect babies + three perfect babies
I am too tired to say much. I checked Poppy every couple of hours during the night. She was definitely not her self in the night and in some pain. Panting. But no pushing. No babies. She did pass a small bloody bag about midnight then after that everything settled back down and she went to…
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The Cadet and I
Yesterday we had an old fashioned day and the Cadet and I toddled about the farm doing our work. Just the two of us. We picked apples for the dehydrator and pies, and apples off the ground for the pigs. We found a butterfly – a monarch – in a wood of milkweed – a protected plant…
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