Tag: farm animals
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Prairie Squalls
Again and again yesterday we were hit with buckets of drenching rain. Inches of it. Pouring out of the sky., I don’t even really understand how a fluffy cloud could contain so much water. Literally Tons of water in a little cloud like that. How can it sit in there and wait to rain like…
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Musical Chicks
Today or tomorrow my broiler chicks should arrive. They left McMurrays yesterday and will be delivered by the Post Office truck to the Postmistress then she calls me. So everyone moves along a chair – the Accident Chickens have been shifted out of the Halfway house and into the tin chicken tractor, the Easter chickens…
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Sharing the Milk
Lady Astor and I had a good think together yesterday. Cows and I mind-think – think like a cow and all that. My Plan has always been to share-milk with the cows this year. They are older girls and have not ever been house cows. I had intended to do this with both – but…
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The Cadet
Our Cadet came yesterday, everyone remembered her and she worked like a wee trooper. This girl loves to say, Yes! She collected all the frozen old eggs up in the loft of the barn. (From now on she will keep that clean of eggs so we know what is fresh and what is not.) She…
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Glorious SUN
We had sun all day yesterday. Sun! It is so long since we had a sunny day. So long that we have sat under that tin lid sky. The sun drew everyone up out of their houses, we were all giggly and I completely lost the kune kune. They wriggled through the fences and were grazing right at…
The Kitchen's Garden 