Tag: farming
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Yesterday I lost one of Poppy’s piglets. She looked a bit off on Friday evening, stopped eating on Saturday, did not respond to the usual treatments and died yesterday morning. I don’t know. I take these things hard. She had no symptoms at all. No scours. No vomiting. No cough. But something was happening inside her. There…
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In-Heriting those ears
Txiki has inherited her ears from her red head mother. Txiki’s mother is Alex, the little red cow who looks like a shaggy mountain pony – Alex is spending time with Carlos the Tiny. Both are Dexters. Txiki (Alex’s daughter) is a cross between a Dexter and a low line Angus, she looks like a shiny…
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Oh No – Not Dreary!
John looked at this picture over my shoulder last night and said, you are not showing them that dreary photo are you? I said, when it is dreary the blog shows dreary. He is appalled. But if we don’t see the dreary side how can we possibly appreciate the sparkling side. I think there is a…
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A Nasty Day Ahead
Wind and Cold. It was windy all night and as I write on my disappearing keyboard (the letters are almost all gone again) the wind is howling outside and it is 20F/-6C. This does not include windchill. The windchill equation brings us down to 4F/-15C but I have no interest in that number! I have to…
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Cows Love Snow
I did take lots of incidental pictures of the snow yesterday, from the porch, from the barn, in the fields, but none of them SAID anything. And if a photograph does not tell you a story or open a memory, or offer a challenge – it is worthless. Perfect, pretty, technically correct photographs are not always…
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