Tag: hereford piglet

• 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

• The starlings have come

  When the field corn starts to sweeten and the insect population starts to strengthen the Starlings come. They line the overhead telegraph wires like fat black pegs on a clothesline. They fly into the fields by the thousand feeding on the pests feeding on the corn and swoop back out in cascading formations.  They fill…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 23, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  common starlings, farming, fog, hereford piglet, pigs and sheep, rain, starlings, wheels on chicken tractor

• Daisy the Watched Kettle

  First we have to admire Charlotte who is posing in her swimming  pool.  l did not tell her that she wooshed all the water out already! The hose is on its way, little Shush.  I call them the Shush Sisters because that is what I call TO them when I feed them. You will remember…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 5, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming

  cow sleeping, hereford piglet, shadows