Tag: sheep
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Summer rhythm
We are now finally settling into a summer rhythm. After all the births and the weanings and the schedules. The setting up and taking down and setting up again. the milking, the feeding, the cooking and the gardening move in and out, giving and taking a little, but basically the days are settled into a…
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Let’s go Walkabout on the Farmy. Our favourite thing!
Take a break. Have a Kit Kat. These were taken just after dawn yesterday. In the space of about an hour. The cats are always waiting on the verandah for their feed. Hey, look at that! Over there! Suckers, says Thing Two. Daisy is eating well, look at her round belly. She loves the Dairy…
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Walkabout on the hot, hot sleepy farmy
Ok, back to business! I rearranged animals the other day. Mia, Meadow and The Murphy are in The Daisy Paddock with the big gate closed so they have very little shade in the morning. I made them a beer tent. They seem more than happy with it. Their shade gets bigger as the sun…
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Water, water everywhere, give me a drop to drink
Yesterday as I walked about in the heat with my hose making sure animals had water to stand in and cold water in their troughs I began to wonder about how much water I was using. How much water is needed to run a sustainable, organic farmy. So I did a little research. Daisy (milking…
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Walkabout on the Farmy
Taking stock on a lovely summer day. Kupa was inadvertantly locked in the chook house and after spending the whole day in with the peasants he had to have a wee lie down. Then he went to have a stretch and adding insult to injury his display attracted the wrong attention, I fear that Kupa…
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