Tag: piglets

• An escape waiting to happen.

  Do you see the little left hoof of the middle piglet? Yes, he is thinking about climbing through. I better fatten him up quick so he cannot fit. They are getting harder to take photos of, as the moment they see me they race over to see what I have got. Every morning I cut…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 22, 2013

  homesteading, Life, Photography

  forsythia for animals, life on a farm, permaculture on the farm, piglets, prunings for sheep and cows, sustainable living

• Home again, Home again, Jiggedy Jig

  Back to the farm, the animals and ordinary old gardening and housework. Why is it that a drill always appears on the table when I am gone.  Boo  will not let me out of his sight now that I am home. He has picked up a few bad habits while you and I were not…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 14, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  animal photography, celi, cows, farming, growing food to eat, hereford pigs, home again, piglets, The kitchen’s garden

• Gilts and Barrows – Goods and Bads

  A little girl pig is a gilt until she has babies then she is a sow, a little boy pig starts out as a boar and becomes a barrow after his wee operation. The Kitchens Garden Farmy officially has six barrows and 2 gilts. The barrows will sell for less than the gilts but are…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 23, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography, Vines and Wine

  barrows, breeding hereford heifers, farming, G, gilts, piglets, raising pigs, wet hay

• Happy Talk Farmy Days

  Happy talk, keep talking happy talk, Talk about things you’d like to do, You gotta have a dream,  if you don’t have a dream, How you gonna have a dream come true? Do you remember South Pacific?  When we were very young my Mum and Dad took us to see the musical. I never forgot…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 18, 2013

  Farming, Gardening, homesteading, Photography, Vines and Wine

  Dreams, dreams come true, hereford piglets for sale, piglets, vegetable garden

• Sad news about Number Nine

  Very quietly yesterday, Number Nine died,  laid between his mother’s front legs, right under her raised chin. His nose directly below hers. He was there with his siblings and his mother not moving from him.  He had not been rejected to die alone in a corner like many animals, he died right there with his…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 17, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  celi, death, grieving, piglets, pigs, The kitchen’s garden