Tag: chicks
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Good morning. I am going to be jogging around the chores this morning now that Kim our Fellowship Friend and trailblazer Farm Stay Participant has climbed reluctantly back onto a plane and flown home. On Saturday The Tall Teenager comes home on leave. I have plans for a Big Clean Up. Maybe I will even…
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It is a calf’s life
A calf’s Tale. Look at that Calf’s Tail! Up in the air with delight. Aunty Del had such a wonderful day out in the fields with her Daisy that at bed time she walked straight to her corner, snuggled down and went straight to sleep. I had to wake her for dinner. Aunty Del. Daisy…
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Kidnapping
Well, a kidnapping of a calf actually. I went out to milk yesterday morning – no sign of Daisy and no sign of Aunty Del and no sign of Marcel (Aunty Del’s ever present minder.) Then I saw them all, way down the back of Daisy’s field. Daisy the latch picker had removed the nail that…
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Look what came in the Mail
Chicks and Ducklings. In the mail! John and the Matriarch want duck for Christmas dinner. But I bought a few extra so I could breed them too. Sadly two of the extra were dead on arrival. So we have four Orpington ducks. The chickens are a selection of cold-hardy layers. Next week the meat chickens come. By…
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Boys and Chicks
I love having children on the farm. Just having fun. After the mandatory swim, this fellow gathers eggs, feeds the cats, (Egoli was found at his house so he always brings him and Tiba a little pot of food each). He picks tomatoes in the gardens then settles down with a little jar of dried…
The Kitchen's Garden 