Tag: ayrshire heifer

• Job Description

  

  An heifer is a female cow who has not had a calf yet.  Frankly I think Aunty might be developing an udder – slowly – but I cannot see it being ready for a calf in five weeks. In my limited experience a heifer begins to grow an udder about two (or more) months  before her baby.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 3, 2016

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  Aunty Del, ayrshire heifer

• The season begins

  

  And we are off – miss c is back in the saddle… (an English saddle,  those wild wild west cowboy saddles hurt my bony bum.) And me and my saddle (but no horse of course) are moving fast now. Thank you for your patience with me and my absence. Spring has hung it’s hat here for…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 25, 2016

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  ayrshire heifer, hereford pigs, kunekune boar, peacock

• Prairie Sky

  

  We all work under a sky.  It is my luck that I have an enormous sky. My mother is the sky. Hard work is not a bad thing. A little winter cold is not a bad thing. And a little bit of hunger is a tonic for a body.  Hunger makes you want more. Better. It…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 28, 2016

  Farming, Life, Photography

  ayrshire heifer, hereford steer, prairie sky, sky, winter

• Hiding Out from the Blizzard in The Barn

  It is 14F (–10C) this morning. Snow on the ground. Yesterday we were locked inside  with a blizzard hurling itself around outside. It was about 18F all day.  Snow flew in swirls through the fields past the buildings and straight out across the plains.  It seemed very certain of its path that  snow.  We were…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 13, 2012

  Farming, Sustainable farming

  ayrshire heifer, Barn, cows, hereford calf, interiors, midwest, snow