Tag: snow

• How to tell when your ewe is due.

  Yesterday I received this wonderful tip from one of the wonderful Fellowship of the Farmy. r says: January 25, 2014 at 5:03 am (Edit) I am throwing my two cents worth of lambing prediction for your consideration. I go by the udder size to predict the number of weeks or days until lambing. My sheep hate my…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 26, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photography, Barn, cow, cows, farming, how to tell if your ewe is ready to lamb, seed catalogues, snow, The kitchen’s garden

• Rocking the Barn

  Not as in rock ‘n roll either. Just a’rockin’. The frozen winds were so strong yesterday that the barn was heaving in and out, like a giant loudly asthmatic bellows. Often I anchor the camera by leaning it on the barn wall or a post but that was hopeless yesterday as the whole barn was…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 25, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  cold, farming, farming in the cold, old barn, snow, winds

• The bees are alive, and beating the cold back with a stick.

  I know that the cold (we are below freezing for a while now: 3F (-17C) this morning) might try and make us feel bleak.  Pulling at the loose threads of our cardi’s trying to unravel us.  Butting heads with our warm outlooks. But look what we can do in the cold. Pasture-raised chicken on the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 22, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  bee hives in winter, beer, bees, cabbage, cold, humour, pasture raised chicken, snow, sunset

• Meet Al: The Berkshire Boar

  When the time came for Sheila to break out the lippie and hop the limo  to visit the Boar, she very quietly followed me onto the trailer, was driven 15 minutes down the road and very quietly unloaded herself. No fuss. Not interested in her treats at all. But very interested in all these little…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 19, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photgraphy, berkshire boar, berkshire hereford cross, boar, drifts, gilt, hereford gily, hogs, photography, pigs, snow, snow storm

• How to make dog biscuits for pigs

  “Well!” I hear you say! “Treats for Pigs?”. But every good pig deserves a treat – Especially Our Sheila who survived the Big Chill with A Plomb and the easiest way to train a pig is with treats. Sad but True. I am the same. Here is the recipe: 2 cups wholemeal flour 1 cup oatmeal…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 8, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  cold, dog treats, farming in the cold, pig treats, pigs, snow