Tag: cows
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The rise and fall of pig coats
Molly is very uncomfortable. These last few days she does not lie down, standing or pacing about all day. At night she is sleeping but no nest making or sign of milk yet. We go for a walk every day, it is too close to her confinement period to leave her outside but when we go…
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So it begins
The first of the summer people has arrived. His name is Alex – he is from California and he is going to be great. I got his arrival date wrong so he is here a week ahead of my schedule and right on time for his. Already he is fully engaged. Last night we took…
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Eat Not Your Bed
The wind is howling and it is pouring with rain outside as I sit down for my early morning journal. It has been an Easterly – swinging from the Nor/east for days now and this is a cold wind. Worse it blows straight into the farrowing pen. So I shut Mollys big East door last…
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Rush rush
I am hurrying this morning as I have to be off the property at seven. So I am going to move swiftly through the chores. I have been a bit dawdly lately. Molly is still taking her time with her piglets and I am not milking so I am enjoying this slow start to the summer. And yesterday…
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Canny cat
On my arrival home from California a few weeks ago Moon was nowhere to be found. Which was not a worry as he is a stray and an intact male and they do tend to wander. He had arrived out of the fields at Christmas time and had been visiting with my barn cats on…
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