Tag: Dexters

• Boar Tusks – Up Close

  

  Yesterday Inaki and I dug out the cows winter pen. This is a big spring job as I always have a deep bed of straw in the winter which is warm for the cows but a lot of heavy work in the spring. Thank God I have Inaki this year. We will have piles of compost…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 6, 2016

  Farming, Life, Photography

  boar tusks, cows and kids, Dexters, kunekune boar

• Possibly Poppy.

  

  I have three entries in my diary – all possible farrowing dates for Poppy. They read. April 04 – Possibly Poppy. April 25 – Possibly Poppy. May 17 – Possibly Poppy. I don’t think it will be April 04. Poppy and all the other female pigs were extremely agitated and excitable yesterday.  I watched them…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 1, 2016

  Farming, Life, Photography

  cows, Dexters, gestating cows, gestating hogs, heifers, pigs

• Alex – the Dexter

  

  I very, very seldom go outside with the Camera House intending to take a specific shot to match an idea. In fact I never do that. My mind is usually quite empty as usual. So I take photos during the day as I see them, then load them into the post before dinner, then when I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 8, 2016

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  Dexters, farming, hereford pigs, kunekune pigs, low line angus, miniature cattle

• The winter barn

  

  John has been working hard to get the winter barn, our other barn across the creek that is really a ditch, up to code  for the winter. We prefer this barn for the animals in the winter as it has a dirt floor. The concrete floor in the home barn, like our temperatures,  gets SO…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 15, 2015

  Vines and Wine

  animal photography, Barn, celi, cows, cows in fields, Dexters, farm photography, farming, Hereford boars, old barns