Tag: diatomaceous earth

• Her tail …

  

  Alex wears her tail like a train.  It is so long but how I wish she would stand still so I could get a brush through it.  She has the best tail, that wee Dexter cow but she prefers dreadlock look. My cow is a hippie. Carlos the Tiny having a scratch. We found some…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 26, 2016

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  cows, diatomaceous earth, Illinois storms

• Farmers Hands

  

  Farmers hands do so much work. All the pigs got the DE treatment. Dust was everywhere. And because Tima’s hair is still growing back she looks like some kind of beacon out at sea. The Big Hereford Pigs are now pie bald. And my farmers hands are dried up and weird looking from the DE.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 17, 2015

  Vines and Wine

  DE, diatomaceous earth, dog and pigs, farmers hands, hands, pigs

• Frigid Sunshine

  By the time we had finished milking yesterday morning and brought everything back inside it was minus 3F (-20C).  I do not deal in windchills as I don’t understand the equation so I won’t tell you what the windchill was. There was hardly any wind anyway. But it was so cold that my face felt…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 23, 2013

  Farming, Humour, Life, Photography

  chickens, chooks, cold, cow, diatomaceous earth, dogs, farming in the cold, giving blood, hens, sheep