Tag: heifers
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Once a week
Once a week we are looking at this patch of ground – top sown with my special pasture cocktail. Watching the grass grow. I am excited. The pasture not so much. In case you cannot see the whole of the picture in your header, and after all who can see the whole picture in many…
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Growling Sheila
Sheila tried to take her barn door off its hinges yeterday. She has another door out into her field but decided that she wanted to get into the field – maybe to visit Tane? She literally put her nose through the pales in the gate and lifted the old wooden gate off the hinges. I heard…
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Possibly Poppy.
I have three entries in my diary – all possible farrowing dates for Poppy. They read. April 04 – Possibly Poppy. April 25 – Possibly Poppy. May 17 – Possibly Poppy. I don’t think it will be April 04. Poppy and all the other female pigs were extremely agitated and excitable yesterday. I watched them…
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Dogging Aunty
As I was going through my pictures to find one last cow picture for the calendar (which is released by the way, so check it out here). I realised that we had very few good shots of Aunty Del. So I set the dogs on the back of the truck and around the corner we…
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Easterly
It seems that the wind is directing my days at the moment. The other day it was the Northerly and now it has swung to the East and settled there with all the gloom and damp that always seems to accompany an Easterly. It is not a big wind or anything just a grey wet…
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