Tag: calves
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Sunflowery
Every morning after he has fed the chickens Hugo hooks up the trailer to his beloved ride -on lawn mower, cuts about 30 – 40 stalks of sunflowers and driving about the farm, distributes them between the pigs and cows and meat chickens. Like a summer Santa without the hat. Tima is mad about them,…
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Hanging out
Last night – late – after a very long trip, Hugo arrived. All the way from Avignon in France. Just to hang out at the farmy for a few months. He is still sleeping. So today will be a bewildering day for him. The first day always is. And tomorrow Pat arrives. Things are busying up…
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Harlequin
Yesterday morning I went across to the West Wing to feed the four calves there and found that the little-ist one, who last week scoured so badly she was coating the walls in a bloody mess, was laid down shivering. The nights have been cooler but not that cold. She got up for her bottle then went…
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Pigs in Mud.
It was a gloriously hot day yesterday. The heat does not bother me as long as I have my heat stroke smoothies for lunch. But all the pigs were swimming in mud. I took the hose around and gave them lots of wetness to lay about in. Sheila looks more and more like a rhinoceros…
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Dropsy and Loosy
Yesterday as well as dropping my phone in the drink, I lost one of my only pair of earrings (they have been my only pair for about twenty years, maybe longer) and I cannot for the life of me find my camera! This terrifies me – where could I have left Camera House, I am tired…
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