Tag: steers
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Closed for Busy-ness
The wind blew cold and strong yesterday. So the big doors were closed, with boards running crosswise to secure them and stop them from flying inward. The little pigs sleep right inside those doors and I don’t want them caught in a cross draft of cold wind blowing straight on them. The wind was quite the surprise…
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Calmer
Hopefully today will be calmer. I still have a couple of teenagers and their baby staying for another week or so. But the Frenchmen and I are hoping for a calmer day today. Something nice and ordinary would do the trick. We got all the hay in yesterday morning. Stacked up into the barn working…
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Mirror, Mirror
On the Wall. Who is the peahen of them all? Vanity thy name is Geraldine. Now that the peahens are out they all spend a considerable amount of time in the garage looking at themselves in the mirror and they do preen too! Not everyone is impressed. Aunty Anna and Naomi across the way. Two…
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Happy chick
Molly and Tahiti are hard to get a decent photo of at the moment- they are so grateful to be back that they are at my heels the whole time I am in there with them. They are big girls now and I have a sneaking suspicion that Manu (the gentle Hereford Boar) bred at least…
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Cows love their babies too
Alex and Txiki. Alex is such a good mother – she is with her baby all the time and is totally devoted. She would never leave her baby all alone down the back of the field in a storm. Alex always knows where her baby is. Lady Astor on the other hand seldom knows where her…
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