Tag: calves

• KICKING THE COWPATS

  

  I was out kicking cowpats yesterday afternoon – as you do.  As you would – if you had seasoned cowpats to kick. But they need to be properly seasoned.  If you kick them when they are too wet they stick to your gumboots. if you kick them when they are too dry they fly like…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 14, 2018

  Photography

  calves, cold, countrylife, cowpats, farming, fields, piglets, pigs, spring

• SNOW LIKE SAND

  

  GETS into everything.  Snow like Sand. Everywhere. Like the SPOT. Seuss’s spot.

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 25, 2018

  Farm Animals, farmphotography, Photography

  animals in snow, calves, country, countryside, farming, last of winter, maybe, natural, pigs, snow, spring, winter

• BAWLING

  

  WEANING is one of the most poignant days on the farm. The babies are healthy and growing up, they are old enough to live on their own without their mother, things are going according to plan,  but OH the MISERY  – there is no coming of age celebration from the cows, there are just nights…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 20, 2018

  Farm Animals, farmphotography, Photography, Sustainable farming

  calf, calves, countrylife, cows, farming, sustainable, thekitchensgardendotcom, weaning

• GOLDILOCKS

  

  Imagine coming back from your walk to find that a fat golden pig has not only been eating your dinner but gone to sleep IN it!

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 10, 2018

  Farm Animals, farmphotography, Photography

  calves, country life, farming, Goldilocks and the three bears, kunekune pigs, pigs

• VET DAY

  

  The vet comes today to perform two procedures on two calves. Firstly Aunty Del’s Bobette needs her horns removed and another calf needs to be castrated (this was the calf who only had one testicle dropped last time we tried so we had to wait). I have been putting both these procedures off until it…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 7, 2018

  Farm Animals, farmphotography, Photography

  barns, calves, countrylife, cows, farming