Tag: calves
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The Best of April
In Pictures. Just for fun. I would like to be able to do this at the end of every month but you know me, I am just as likely to forget, or we will have an Event that cannot be ignored. or something will go terribly right and I just cannot bear not to show…
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The Cuteness Factory
Not too many words today. Words seem to tax my brain and my back more than images and hay bales do when I am tired. We are building up to Busy here and every step I take I have to take with care making sure my feet go into metaphorically firm ground. My mind must…
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Late night, early morning
Queenie began her labour at 6pm. By 8.30 pm nothing further had happened. I led her into the barn, trailing streams of waterbag, so she and her calf would be safe from the coyotes, she ate her dinner and then lay down for a sleep. While I proceeded to have a nervous breakdown. Boo Nanny…
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sex on the farmy
So let’s have a wander through the developing sustainable, self sufficient, old fashioned farm then. I will take you with me while I do my early morning chores. I jabbed Daisy on Monday with her hormone injection, the first of three. (We are trying for a baby.. cannot make cheese without milk, cannot make milk…
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Dairy = Daisy and the Bees are Swimming.
This is not my barn. It is an empty barn down the road. It is waiting for a cow. It has been waiting for a long time. A sleeping beauty. We have many abandoned barns around here. I decided to buy Daisy because she was pretty, had big brown eyes and long, long legs. Also…
The Kitchen's Garden 