Tag: homesteading

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  The Australorps are in the big brooder with random branches, learning to roost. They are still very sweet birds. The electric fences are up so Tia and Aunty can go to graze in the Dairy Mistress field. Though the paused for a long time in Daisy’s paddock hoping could stay. But there there is no…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 8, 2019

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• OH THE MUD

  

  Still no sign of babies from Molly. Nine eggs from the ducks. Over twenty four eggs daily from the chickens. The weather is, at last, warming up a little. And oh the mud.

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 2, 2019

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• APRIL FIRST

  

  At last!! Time moves slowly in an Illinois March and this March was extra slow.

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 1, 2019

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• WORKING FAST NOW

  

  I am clearing the winter bedding out of the barn reminding myself that putting huge round bales of corn stalks into the pens as bedding was all very well until it is time to haul if all back out, thawed and smelly, a forkful at a time.

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 19, 2019

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• NOT FRIENDS

  

  Pigs are reported to enjoy each other’s company but these two,Molly and Sheila, are not getting on at all even preferring to sleep in separate quarters.

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 18, 2019

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