Tag: photography
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Creating Nesting Boxes for Peahens – Hows that for Positive Thinking!
The peahens, Pania and Tui, are spending most of their time in the barn lately. Of course Kupa is up there with them. They are together much more than previously so I have high hopes of some eggs. They should start laying sometime in late March or early April. These are young hens so they…
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“But, I’m a GIRL! Miss C”
All along this wee lamb has been So Noisy. Now I know why. I changed their coats yesterday, Mama hates when I do this, she will BAA straight into my face when I put smelly clean clothes on them but the hand fed ones had grown out of their first coats and have to keep clean…
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Lambs: A Photographic Essay
Yesterday had horrible weather. The wind was so strong and so cold yesterday that a few times I walked backwards from the house to the barn rather than have my face blown off. But thats OK, the Kiwi builder was on the other side of the house so he did not see. But the…
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Chooks are very strict Babysitters
This is a scene I happen upon quite often lately. The chooks put the kittens down for their afternoon nap then slowly surround them. Babysitting. These two sister chickens are always the closest to the kittens. You may remember them from the spring when they were job sharing one small chick, who they eventually lost.…
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Onwards and Upwards at 5F (-15C)
This kind of beautiful clear day … … always has to be paid for. (Do you see the shape of the Coupe’s roofline developing in the framing here?) There was a lot of sun for warmth gathering yesterday. And I know why now. It is 5.30 am and 5 degrees F outside. Yes, that is…
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