Tag: sows

• EGGS GALORE

  

  The chickens are supplying us with at least three dozen eggs a day sometimes more. One dozen a day goes to the pigs and the others are sold.  Last week I sold fifteen dozen eggs. The pigs had a few less though. This week Jake wants to send up thirty dozen(between us)  – we are after…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 11, 2018

  Farm Animals, farmphotography, Photography

  animals, chickens, country, country life, eggs, farm photography, farming, food, goodfood, Molly, natural, sows, sustainable

• REAL RAINBOWS

  

  “Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life”. Lord Byron

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 8, 2017

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, The Farmy

  countrylife, farming, farmlife, featured, hogs, Molly, piglets, pigs, postcards, rain, rainbows, share, sows, sun, weather, zazzle

• MOLLY’S NIGHT

  

  MOLLY IN THE NIGHT

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 3, 2017

  hereford pigs, Photography, Sustainable farming

  farrowing, featured, night barn, piglets, small litter, sows, women who farm

• So Tired Now

  

  Every few hours for the last few nights I have been up to check Poppy’s Sty TV but nothing. She is way past her due date now and there is milk in that udder but still no babies.  Poppy does not have a perfect udder. She only had five piglets at her first farrowing and this…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 7, 2017

  Farming, Life, Photography

  animals, breeding hereford pigs, chicken, cow, farm animals, photography, sows, thekitchensgardendotcom

• Molly and Poppy

  

  The two sows seem to be living together quietly now that I have locked Molly and her brood even further back in the barn. They have no shared walls now. And with the weather being so miserable and cold the piglets spend most of their time sleeping under their light – so it really is…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 5, 2017

  Farming, Life, Photography

  filthy pig, hereford pigs, hogs, milking equipment, old barn, sows