Yesterday a man who I will not name because he is a local mowed the ditches ghen set fire to them then left the area. Of course it roared up in the wind and shot out in all directions burning up dry, dry grass… Continue Reading “HEAT and FIRE”
The other day I opened Poppy’s electric fence gate so she could come out and visit with Sheila but she refuses to cross where the electric fence WAS. I bring her food over and she paces back and forth in front of the memory… Continue Reading “THE WHITE LINE”
Posted on February 5, 2018
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Don’t eat yellow snow. Just sayin’.
Category: Farm Animals, farmphotography, PhotographyTags: blizzard, blood shortage, cold, cows, farmanimals, giving blood, redcross, snow, weather, winter
Posted on January 25, 2018
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
38 Comments
gain By yesterday morning the sick pig was given an A- and by yesterday evening she was given an A+ and was back to shoving the others out of the way to get to her food. Her breathing is still a little laboured but… Continue Reading “PUSHY COW”
Category: Farm Animals, Photography, Sustainable farmingTags: blogging, cows, farmanimals, farming, fences, pig, prairie, weather, wildness, winter
Back at the Farm.
Category: PhotographyTags: animals, calves, cats, cold, countrylife, cows, dogs, farmanimals, farming, midwest, pigs, snow, travel, weather, womenfarmers
Posted on December 15, 2017
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
33 Comments
Yesterday was calm and though cold with little sun the animals and I chalked it up as a good day. We have had so much wind lately that when it is still it feels both ominous and charmed all at once.
Category: Farm Animals, FarmingTags: barncats, cats, country, countrylife, cows, farm cats, farmanimals, farming, milking cows, packing, pigs, travelling
Posted on November 8, 2017
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
33 Comments
And that is all. Just Speed.
Category: Farming, farmphotography, hereford pigs, Life, Photography, Sustainable farmingTags: cows, farmanimals, field corn, hogs, pigs, white rock chickens
Posted on September 24, 2017
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
30 Comments
THE HEAT, RETURNS
Category: cows, Farming, Photography, Sustainable farmingTags: animals in heat, bloat, farmanimals, farming, featured, heat, milkcow, Molly
Posted on September 22, 2017
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
33 Comments
ANY NEWS? YES, THERE IS NEWS.
Category: cows, Farm Animals, Photography, Sustainable farmingTags: continuum, cows, Dexters, farmanimals, farrowing, featured, gestation, news, pigs
Posted on September 7, 2017
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
45 Comments
Now that Alissa is gone and the woofing is finished I have to do all the dishes by myself! Dammit -I forgot about that. There is quite a bit of blood in Lady Astors milk now – whatever the trauma was to her udder… Continue Reading “The Dishes”
Category: Farm Animals, Life, PhotographyTags: chickens, clouds, countrylife, cows, farmanimals, farming, farmlife, fitwomen, green, pig feed, pigs, potbelly pig
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