Tag: heat

• Stonkered by the Heat.

  

  Like a sail in a changing wind we have yawed from unusually cold to extreme heat. And the animals – all except the PopPops – are floored by it. Including me. I failed to keep hydrated. On average a person needs only a litre of water a day – or a cup per hour –…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 27, 2024

  Photography, weather

  chickens, chicks, countrylife, cows, extreme heat, farming, heat

• HAZY HOT

  

  The air is hazy with muggy, sticky, humid heat. 

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 17, 2018

  Farm Animals, Farming, Photography

  farming, featured, heat, weather

• HEAT and FIRE

  

  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 and if John had not made a fire break at our…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 30, 2018

  Farming, Photography

  anger, cows, farmanimals, fires, heat, hot, pigs, weather

• HEAT STROKE

  

  Lucy the newborn Angus calf  went down with heatstroke yesterday evening and I had to go in and drag her out through the little milking calf door without her mother killing me. If I had left her in there she would have died on the spot.

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 29, 2018

  Farming, Life, Photography

  country, farming, heat, heatstroke in calves, new calf

• New bobby

  We all melted in the heat yesterday but Leia managed to give birth easily to a wee Bobby calf before breakfast. She kept him under the tree for the day and has not brought him into the barn again. 

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 28, 2018

  Farm Animals, farmphotography, Photography

  calves, countrylife, ducks, farming, heat, hot, instagram, weather