Tag: pigs
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Look what came in the Mail
Chicks and Ducklings. In the mail! John and the Matriarch want duck for Christmas dinner. But I bought a few extra so I could breed them too. Sadly two of the extra were dead on arrival. So we have four Orpington ducks. The chickens are a selection of cold-hardy layers. Next week the meat chickens come. By…
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The perfect O
Of surprise when visitors arrive, complete with bottles of wine, at dinner time when there is plenty to eat. So everything except food and conversation (and of course the bottles of wine) is gently put aside until the morning. Today the sun is shining, we are warming up a little and the calves are galloping about the…
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Whistling lungs.
Whistling wind. By mid afternoon yesterday the whistle in the lungs of Number Three Plonker had begun to recede. The Gatorade tip went down very well. (Thank you Marla) His favourite is mango. Orange came a close second. He was not interested in his grain so I made a huge pot of vegetable soup and every few hours…
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The day before last –
The day before your yesterday, Plonker Number Three was delivered. (One of The Fellowship is going to grow him here for her family freezer). He did not get on with the other two so he had to go into the wild card pen in the center of the barn so he could get used to the others.…
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The Best of April
In Pictures. Just for fun. I would like to be able to do this at the end of every month but you know me, I am just as likely to forget, or we will have an Event that cannot be ignored. or something will go terribly right and I just cannot bear not to show…
The Kitchen's Garden 