Tag: hereford calf

• The means or the end …

  

  An interesting discussion at dinner: Me: The dinner itself is the reason I am farming. The farming is a means to an end – the end being good clean delicious nutritious food.  The good food and good dinners are the objective. The farming is the fuel. The farming is the means. Alex: Food is the fuel…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 7, 2017

  Farming, Life, Photography

  calves, dinner, dinner talk, farming, hereford calf

• There be spiders –

  

  Every morning now, early, after John has left for work and before anyone else is awake I walk down the creek path and across the bridge and down the road to let the calves out and see them into their new field. Yesterday morning the sun came up into a cloud of low fog. The…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 4, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  calves, cobwebs, farm lie, hereford calf, old barns, sheep in the morning, spiders webs in dew, walking in the morning

• Late night, early morning

  

  Queenie began her labour at 6pm. By 8.30 pm nothing further had happened. I led her into the barn, trailing streams of waterbag, so she and her calf would be safe from the coyotes, she ate her dinner and then lay down for a sleep. While I proceeded to have a nervous breakdown. Boo Nanny…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 31, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  ayrshire calf, calves, calving, hereford calf, kunekune piglet

• Hairy MacLairy gets a Pedicure

  Yesterday was fine and warm with only slightly windy winds.  It was a calm steady productive afternoon, I was passing  through the Corridor Paddock where Daisy and Hairy MacLairy were dosing, I took a shot of Hairy and Queenie then I noticing Hairy’s hoof stuck out like as he relaxed, so putting the camera on…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 12, 2012

  Farm Animals, Farming, Sustainable farming

  Barn, challenger car, Dorset sheep. Ayrshire cow, hereford calf, hoof trimming

• A cat sat in the washing machine

  I know many cats like to sit in washing baskets but Mary’s Cat took the feline laundry fetich thing to a whole new level yesterday morning. Now before you panic. The washing machine was empty and Mary’s Cat had not been locked inside.  He had climbed into the clean, open, front loading washing wachine and…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 2, 2012

  Farming, Photography

  Ayrshire cow, hereford calf, kittten, say no to drugs, white cat