Tag: kunekune boar
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Tane goes for a walk
I locked up all the feed and opened the gates for Tima and Tane to go for a walk yesterday. Tima and Tane are an old married couple (both kunekune pigs) who have lived together for years. He has bad legs and she is a nosy fat Mama. Tima took off like a shot and…
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Tane
Pronounced Tahnay. Tane Mahuta is my small kunekune boar. He has a Maori name – from my homeland New Zealand. Like many ancient cultures the Maori culture had many gods, Tane is the God of the forests and birds. (Though in New Zealand we call the forests the BUSH). The word also means boy or man.…
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Boar Tusks – Up Close
Yesterday Inaki and I dug out the cows winter pen. This is a big spring job as I always have a deep bed of straw in the winter which is warm for the cows but a lot of heavy work in the spring. Thank God I have Inaki this year. We will have piles of compost…
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The season begins
And we are off – miss c is back in the saddle… (an English saddle, those wild wild west cowboy saddles hurt my bony bum.) And me and my saddle (but no horse of course) are moving fast now. Thank you for your patience with me and my absence. Spring has hung it’s hat here for…
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Tane the Kunekune Boar
As you will remember Tane the little Kunekune boar has a bung hip. He hurt it the first time he bred Tima last year. Now we are in winter, and his limp seems more pronounced in the mornings. But Tane has put himself on a regime of exercise. Every morning after breakfast he lies at…
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