Tag: ducks

• DUCK DRIVE

  

  As I had extra help yesterday I decided to move the ducks to their permanent area. There is no house for them yet but they had been too long in their out of the way holding pen. Time to get them into the action – right into the corridor paddock where there is lots if…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 25, 2018

  Farm Animals, farmphotography, Life, Photography

  children, country, countryliving, ducks, farming, weather

• New bobby

  We all melted in the heat yesterday but Leia managed to give birth easily to a wee Bobby calf before breakfast. She kept him under the tree for the day and has not brought him into the barn again. 

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 28, 2018

  Farm Animals, farmphotography, Photography

  calves, countrylife, ducks, farming, heat, hot, instagram, weather

• FENCING COWS IN AND PUSHING DUCKS OUT.

  

    Yesterday we were fencing. The weather was fine and cool. The ground is getting hard fast but other than that putting up an electric fence is not a hard job. And in this weather it is actually pretty satisfying to put in a good fence. Of course I say we were fencing but we…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 23, 2018

  Farm Animals, Life, Photography

  ducks, farming, fencing, life, raisingducks, small farms, weather

• TRIAGE VS PRIORITIES

  That is a rather grand title for such an ordinary post. But for me: Triage means dealing with the task that has a better chance of getting finished and priorities means putting the most important to the top of the list. Not the same thing at all. And why I would wake up to find…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 21, 2018

  cows, Farming, Photography

  Barn, cows, ducks, farming, priorities, triage, weather

• HERE WE GO AGAIN

  

  I am cutting the hay today. Interesting that when I decide to cut hay EVERYONE says ok whatever you say. No-one else wants the responsibility. But I have four dry days in the forecast and some beautiful leaf in the fields and no hay at all in the barns. So I am calling it. We…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 16, 2018

  Farm Animals, farmphotography, Photography

  ducks, farming, haymaking, waterforducks, weather