Tag: Dutch belted calf

• Raw Milk

  

  In the evening, just before the pigs dinner I let them out into the field for a run and a grass munch. There is not a lot of grass yet so there is still a danger of them rooting. So their grass break is not very long. But they eat the whole time.Pigs! Then they…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 16, 2015

  cows, Farming, hereford pigs, raw milk

  breeding hereford pigs, cute baby farm animals, Dutch belted calf, Dutch belted Cow, farming, raw milk

• What does wind look like?

  

  I can’t show you what the wind looks like. There are no leaves or long grasses bending in supplication to the wind to help me show you. I cannot take one picture that lets you feel the full force of a roaring westerly wind, a howling she- gale heaving itself across the prairies. It can…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 11, 2015

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  Dutch belted calf, prairies, wind, Wind on the prairies

• Hotel Towels for Farms

  

  + OK. Here is a question. What happens to old hotel linen? I have been thinking about this a lot lately. Maybe I have spent a little too much time in hotels. When their sheets get too old or their towels loose their fluffiness and those blankets get pilled. Where does all that stuff go?…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 9, 2015

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  Beatrix Potter, calves, cats, Dutch belted calf, goats, hotel sheets, hotel towels, kids, kittens, what happens to old hotel linen

• A Surprise Baby

  

  A real surprise.  Elsie has given birth to a wee heifer. She was already here when I went out to do the chores yesterday morning so the girls got to see her before departing. They had the best visit. The calf  is a beautiful wee bouncy heifer she has the same markings as her mother on…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 7, 2015

  Vines and Wine

  Dutch belted calf, Dutch belted Cow