Tag: guinea fowl

• Part two of the farmy walkabout but have I missed somebody?

  This is what the very few people who drive down our country road are seeing. Daily changes. Not much changing with Daisy though. She stands exactly here for most of the day. Watching the kitchen door for movement.  Daisy is an Ayrshire. A very old breed of dairy cow.  She is almost four. She is…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 18, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  Duke of Kupa, farm life, guinea fowl, homesteading, milk cow, peacocks, sheep, sustainable farming

• Onwards and Upwards at 5F (-15C)

  This kind of beautiful clear day … … always has to be paid for. (Do you see the shape of the Coupe’s roofline developing in the framing here?) There was a lot of sun for warmth gathering yesterday.  And I know why now.  It is 5.30 am and 5 degrees F outside.  Yes, that is…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 2, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  animal photography, farming, guinea fowl, kittens, milking in the freezing cold, photography, sun on snow, The kitchen’s garden

• Hiding from the Chill

  Not one furry, or feathered, animal, or bird, moved from the barn until late in the morning yesterday, except maybe to run quickly outside to the loo but that would only be the piggies. The rest are not as particular with their ablutions. So after the milking (the milk production has levelled out at 15…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 13, 2012

  Farming, Photography

  cute kittens, guinea fowl, images, Nanowrimo, old barn, peacock, the cold, The Duke of Kupa, The kitchen’s garden

• Northern Cardinals come home to roost.

  Hairy MacLairy has been brought into the barn for a short visit because he keeps scraping his knees. Blood and flies in the field can be a nasty mix.  I have been trying to treat his grazes in the field but he hates the wound spray and gallops away when he sees me coming.  Then…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 30, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming

  border collie, guinea fowl, mock orange, Northern Cardinal

• Late afternoon on the farmy: Two Cocks Crowing

  Late afternoon on the Farmy is a peaceful time. Well it should be a peaceful time.  Except I let all the chook-house chickens out of their house for a run around. Which meant that the Barn Roosters rushed out to challenge the Chook House Roosters.   Son of Neanderthal Man  and the Senior Chook House…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 6, 2012

  Farm Animals, Humour, Photography, Sustainable farming, The Farmy

  chickens, chooks, cows, crowing, guinea fowl, roosters, sheep