Tag: rain

• Cooling Our Hot Heels

  The heat has finally come to the Prairies. I must be very careful that everyone has plenty of water. All the pigs will have their wallows topped up each morning. And I have discovered that if you hose the heels of a cow she will stand quite still.  If you try and hose her back…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 27, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photography, cows, farm animals, heatwave in the MidWest, ppigs, rain, raising pigs, 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

• How to settle your 47 chicks in on their first day.

  The Post Mistress found a chirping box on her counter when she got to work this morning.  She called me straight away and I zoomed down in my little cooking oil car to collect them. I could hear the strident chirping the minute I opened the Post Office door.  Forty Seven chicks survived their journey.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 3, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life

  how to raise meat chickens, rain, weaning piglets, weaning sow, what to do for chicks on their first day

• Rain. Rain falling with a relieved sigh.

  I know some of you are expecting snow but we had hours and hours of rain yesterday and OH it was glorious. Quiet, firm and even heavy at times.  All the animals stood out in it. I was milking an unrepentant, dripping wet cow. The fields are waterlogged. The troughs are overflowing.  Just lovely.  Though…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 8, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  eggs and milk, milking in the rain, rain

• Hiding out from the Rain and the Story of Daisy’s name

  And then it poured!  Isn’t this grand, I said to the animals as they stood at their doors watching the rain come down.  Sometimes on rainy days we tell each other stories.  Daisy wanted to know why she had been called Daisy.  It all started with a rainy day I said to Daisy. With the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 30, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  cows, dying, grief, naming, rain