Tag: pigs and sheep

• The starlings have come

  When the field corn starts to sweeten and the insect population starts to strengthen the Starlings come. They line the overhead telegraph wires like fat black pegs on a clothesline. They fly into the fields by the thousand feeding on the pests feeding on the corn and swoop back out in cascading formations.  They fill…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 23, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  common starlings, farming, fog, hereford piglet, pigs and sheep, rain, starlings, wheels on chicken tractor

• Greetings between farm animals. A precious shot.

  Hairy MacLairy the Dorset ram is a gentle old soul. He is huge for a sheep but always approaches the smallest members of the farm tipping from his toes with nose outstretched. This shot was taken with the camera swinging from my finger tips,  (I can not thank you often enough for this camera Bill ), trying…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 5, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life

  pigs and sheep, pigs on grass, pigs walking, sheep meets pup, weeping mulberry trees

• Walkabout the FARMY

  I do love our walkabouts. Come along then. I shall name everyone as we go along for the newer members of the Farmy Clan. First into the barn and here is Pania and Tui, hiding out in the dimness.  It was still a little windy yesterday and they do not like inclement weather.  They came…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 16, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, The Farmy

  chickens, chooks, Farm walkabout, guinea fowl image, peacocks, peahens, pigs and sheep, The Daily View, Yesterdays temperature