Tag: raising meat chickens

• The Firewood, the Ark, and Sheila Bites the Boar

  Out on The Matriarch’s old farm, where John grew up, is an old mulberry tree planted by his Grandfather.  Last winter this branch fell. This winter this dead branch will keep his grandson (and his good wife)  warm. On the way home we dropped into John’s workshop (at the old farm) so he could show…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 27, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  breeding berkshire hereford cross, breeding pigs, chicken ark, gathering firewood, raising meat chickens

• Periscope Pig

  Sheila lives in the Corridor Paddock and sleeps in the Sun Room of the barn. But when she lays down she makes sure that her snout is poking through the gate that leads  to the corridor in the barn.  Like a short stout periscope. Her nose is always sure to get a wee scratch as…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 30, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  hens on grass, life, photography, pigs in mud, pigs snout, raising chickens in a chicken tractor, raising meat chickens, The kitchen’s garden