Tag: chickens

• Good News – with Hope attached

  It looks like there is more action around the troubled bee hive  than I thought there would be. (Here are two little old tractors waiting to go and live in the sand pit of two bright little boys.) Anyway, the scene yesterday outside the struggling hive was very active. Many bees from both hives were…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 23, 2013

  Bees, Farming, homesteading

  bees, chickens, chooks, daffodils, honey bees, peacock, The Duke of Kupa, toy tractors

• Siberian Sun

  This is what we had yesterday. A dreadful  siberian cold with sun and a wicked wind.  Ironic considering that yesterday I said to you that I would take wind and sun over calm and cloud.  So it blew a freezing gale! I still appreciated the sun though even if it was straight from Siberia. Every…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 20, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  bottle fed lambs, chickens, freezing sun, old barn, peacock, roosters, wind

• Frigid Sunshine

  By the time we had finished milking yesterday morning and brought everything back inside it was minus 3F (-20C).  I do not deal in windchills as I don’t understand the equation so I won’t tell you what the windchill was. There was hardly any wind anyway. But it was so cold that my face felt…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 23, 2013

  Farming, Humour, Life, Photography

  chickens, chooks, cold, cow, diatomaceous earth, dogs, farming in the cold, giving blood, hens, sheep

• Dividing up the loot

  A couple of times a week the local grocery store gives The Farmy a bag of expired produce.  I sit on one bucket surrounded by other empty buckets and set to work chopping  and dividing up all the vegetables, potatoes and fruit. I am immediately surrounded in a rabble of  watchers, outright looters and opportunists, …

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 20, 2013

  Farming, Humour, Photography

  chickens, farming, labneh, peacock, produce, roosters, tame animals, thekitchensgarden

• Shuffling the cards of cows.

  On the way out to milk yesterday morning we were greeted with a cheerful little shower of powdery snow.  Just a little.  Then it melted before our eyes. Ah well.  When I counted the hay bales the other day, and after doing the rather rudimentary maths  associated with this exercise, which frankly is as far…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 29, 2012

  Bees, Farming, Life, Photography

  bees, chickens, cows, eggs, feed, hay