Tag: pregnant cows

• Bees and Bees and Baby Bumps

  So much good news. I was clearing the bees doorway yesterday afternoon.  It was above freezing and such a beautiful day without a breath of wind. I put my ear to the beehive and there they were, making their disapproval  known with a deep far away baseball cheer of buzzing. Good bees. Later in the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 13, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  bees, cows, cows with bump out to the side, pregnant cows

• How do you open a door?

  I have always wondered this.  How do you open a door? Do you step up turn the doorknob, push the door in a little,  just wide enough to slip through, then shut it behind you.  This is what I do in the winter. In the summer the doors are open wide all day and all…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 30, 2014

  Farm Animals, Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  chickens in a barn, heifers, peahen in a bin, pigs, pregnant cows

• Blankets for Pigs

  Last night was not so cold, but late in the night I got it into my head that Sheila, my big Hereford pig, needed a blanket – and you know how these thoughts are, after the initial thought, nothing will turn it away.. not even the promise of sleep.  You see, when I went out…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 1, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  aryshire cow, blankets for pigs, hereford cow, hereford pig, pig, pregnant cows

• A perfect housekeeper is my pig.

  Every  evening before bed-time Sheila has a little routine. I am allowed to place her clean straw on top of the old straw and she carefully tears it apart and pushes it this way and that until he has a nice high soft bed. She spends some time getting it just right before she settles…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 14, 2013

  homesteading, Life, Photography

  clean pigs, farming, homesteading, pregnant cows