Tag: chicks

• Hawks Love Young Chicks

  When I returned from buying feed yesterday morning, the guineas were  shrieking up a storm. Imagine a highly strung young matron throwing her apron over her face and running screaming in circles, then you have a reasonable description of the guineas when they see a hawk. The guineas do not yell at cars or stray…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 16, 2012

  Life, Organic farming

  chicks, death, farming, haymaking, marmite, tractor tilling field

• Minty, TonTon and The chicks get some Retirement Home loving!

  We were still setting up at the retirement home when the residents started arriving.  At one point I said to one of the nurses, wow there are a lot of people here and she said, Oh my dear, that is only one wing, there are two more  coming.  The corridors  were rippling with slow moving…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 27, 2012

  Life, Photography, Therapy Dogs

  Animal therapy, chicks, dog, lamb, retirement home

• New little golden Easter balls of fluff.

  Another set of new arrivals have come to the Farmy. And are under a warm lamp in the basement.  Sleeping. Where no cats are allowed for a while.  These chickens will be handled often and will come to the old folks home with TonTon and I on ‘Celi’s Travelling Farmy Day’ later in the month.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 7, 2012

  Farm Animals, Farming, Organic farming, Photography

  chicks, Easter chickens

• Poor Daisy has a cold. So I have given her a pumpkin.

  Hope you all had a great weekend. c

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 7, 2011

  Farming, Humour, Photography, Sustainable farming

  cat, chicken, chicks, Daisy the cow, kitten, kitty

• Jeepers Creepers, where d’ya get those Peepers? Look what TonTon found in the barn!

  So TonTon was barking like mad at the  barn door. This is rare behaviour so something was amiss and I have learnt not to ignore him. I went outside the kitchen door and he ran to me his hackles up. Usually this means there is a sheep in the wrong place or Daisy has picked…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 26, 2011

  Farm Animals, Life, Sustainable farming

  baby chicks, barn. dog, cat, chickens, chicks, chooks