Tag: hereford pig

• bred

  

  The girls have been bred by the Lady Vet and her very long very skinny silver syringe that she stores down her top so it does not get cold.  Both procedures went smoothly. In a little over a month we will take blood samples for a pregnancy test.  Fingers crossed now.  If I had a penny for…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 30, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  bees on flowers, blueberries, breeding cows, chopper, hereford pig, illinois temperature, knife, russian bees

• Poppy the little pig

  

  .. has proven herself to be a voracious eater, with a lovely friendly temperament  and plenty of gumption, even chewing down on her cabbage (sliced very small with a little molasses). With Sheila very loudly eating her hay next door as a ‘good example’. And being watched by a cat. Of course. There is always…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 21, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  cow late to calving, hereford pig, hereford piglet, lamb hereford cow, Pregnant cow

• a calm busy day before another calm busy day

  Boo and Marcel. Wee Marcel is still slowly improving. he is even gaining weight. He sleeps well and took two little walks outside and around inside the barn yesterday. Tonight he will go to tiny feeds every three hours. Altogether he drinks a little over two cups a day of milk and plenty of water…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 20, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  bottle fed lambs, breeding pigs, cardinal, celi, central illinois, cows, hereford pig, sheep, snow, The kitchen’s garden

• Sheila hates her diet so much she tried stealing the chook food.

  I am not sure if this is Pania again, too far away to see if she has the gap in her crown or not. But What is she doing up there again?  Probably trying to warm me about what I would find in the chook house. Sheila was in the chook house to steal their…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 5, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  animal photography, chickens, chooks, farming, hereford pig, homesteading, pea hen on barn, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden

• The snow stood still in the air.. thinking its little think

  The wind died  down yesterday. I don’t care how it died frankly, as long as it was gone. We all crept up out from behind our shelters, sniffing the air. The snow gently falling, in no hurry to go anywhere. Did you see Mama, she seldom comes out into the field nowadays. Preferring to stick…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 1, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  celi, farming in the cold, good morning, hereford pig, ice storm, sheep in snow, snow, the kitchens garden farm