Tag: peacocks
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Tick tack
When Mr Flowers has his tail up at full power he does this funny thing. Imagine the tail spread out as an enormous fan, maybe 150 to 200 feathers , now count in ten feathers from the right and imagine the next four feathers on the far right as one panel and four more on…
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Mr and Mrs Flower.
Yesterday, after milking the cow and feeding the goats and the cows and the big pigs and the little pigs and the chickens of all descriptions, John and I loaded two dog crates into The Matriarchs jeep and went to the Bantam Swap. Do you remember last years Bantam Swap we brought home Godot and…
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Barn Life.
Boo has been banished outside because he was skunked yesterday morning. Poor BooBoo. The skunk off will handle it but I hate the smell of that too. I use this because it is fast and effective. I have never had a dog get skunked at a time when I have lots of spare time to…
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The positives …
… about being below freezing for so long. And there are positives, it cannot possibly be all bad. Not in Our World anyway. There are lots of good things. The pigs get a warm breakfast of soaked alfalfa cubes, garlic, kitchen scraps and molasses. It actually looks pretty tasty.. if you are a pig. The…
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Barn Swallows
Yesterday morning I found a small barn swallow chick sitting on the floor of the milking parlour. I carefully replaced it in the nest and they were still all together last night. Some sad news though. On our walk last night, as we passed into the wilder area right down the back, I came across…
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