Tag: heifers

• Good news

  

  Yesterday we worked extra fast in some terrible humid heat and now all the hay has been divided up and is stacked in neat rows in two barns.  And then in the afternoon – it rained – poured down actually! And we all felt smug because our hay was under cover. I hope I have enough…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 5, 2015

  Farming, Life, Photography

  cows, heifers, steers, young cows

• Where are the pigs bowls…

  

  Sheila my big fat pig still picks up her pigs bowl and takes it to bed with her.  Hiding them. By the time I find it – it is buried in the straw in her hut. Her version of breakfast in bed. It means that at least once a day I have to crawl into…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 25, 2015

  Farm Animals, Farming, Photography

  barn cats, cows, feeding pigs, heifers, hogs, milking, pigs

• Cold Feet

  

  It is a measure of Sheila’s trust in me that she would trudge  all the way across the snow drift that has had her cooped up all this time and come out for a walk.  (Though she has balked at it three days running so I guess she trusts me when she feels like it) . …

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 11, 2015

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  calves, cats, celi, heifers, kittens, my big fat pig, pigs in snow, sheila, thekitchensgarden, trees

• How do you open a door?

  I have always wondered this.  How do you open a door? Do you step up turn the doorknob, push the door in a little,  just wide enough to slip through, then shut it behind you.  This is what I do in the winter. In the summer the doors are open wide all day and all…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 30, 2014

  Farm Animals, Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  chickens in a barn, heifers, peahen in a bin, pigs, pregnant cows