Tag: cows
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Working alone on the Farmy is Never Lonely
As you know I get up very early so that I can post today’s page around dawn every morning. The night before I will have embedded the best of that days shots into a post, jotted down a few rough ideas and after visiting as many of you as I can, I do the late…
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Haymaking makes my Skinny Girlie Arms Ache.
A good ache though. Yesterday I made an electric fence run out the North side of the Barn for our slinky swine. This is primarily so that the pigs can root in the dirt. They get a lot of their essential minerals from the soil. Daisy and I went through our twice daily routine…
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My Mother called it Crying Tired
That tired. So tired that the yawn splits your face and you forget to cover your mouth with your paw. So tired that you have to lie down to eat and you don’t care who sees. So tired that you don’t even talk to your friends anymore, you just all lay about under a tree…
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Queenie is sent to Coventry for Picking Fights…
..With Pigs. Yes you read right. Queenie Wineti my sweet little Hereford heifer was caught picking a fight with a small PIG. It started out as such a soft and gentle misty day. The animals all slept in. The peacock added his new found calls to the usual barnyard noises. I went to bed with…
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Back to work – Piglets are coming tonight!
It is funny how when we are focused on a big event, like the birth of the lambs, this event becomes very clear in your head and everything else goes really fuzzy. Now all of a sudden it is Friday morning. Two piglets are being delivered this evening. We are raising these two with a…
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