Tag: Tima
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Is this Sleeping Pig Lying?
Surely this old pig can not be this tired? Tima the kunekune pig is like a heat seeking missile – a very chubby, bovine, heat seeking missile – when she spies an empty lap. She trots over and lays her tired head in said lap and is snoring within minutes. Wriggling every now and then…
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In which Wai Has Dinner in Bed
Tima the KuneKune was bloodied and tired with just a hint of a smirk when I came out for afternoon chores yesterday. Bleeding scratches on her shoulder but I got out the iodine. No-one likes the iodine. But fighting is not rewarded. Wai (the rescue pot belly) would not come out of his corner at…
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Opened Tima’s gate – Things did not go as Planned.
Tima is an old KuneKune pig. Most of the year she is free to wander anywhere she wants to. But like all pigs she believes she is allowed to eat anything she finds. And this includes whole fields of wheat and all the tomatoes. So in the harvest season I set her up a camp…
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The Rooster on the Porch
Roosters have their own territories, especially roosters who do not have a flock of chickens. And often (here on the Farmy) a lone rooster will attach itself to an animal. At least to the area that a particular animal lives in and the promise of two free feeds a day. Let’s be honest!! There are…
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Tima’s Summer Diet
Tima will share her diet with you! She swears by it and at it, sometimes! Timatanga Moana (we call her Tima for short) is a kunekune pig. And kunekune pigs can put on the wrong kind of weight if they are fed the wrong kind of diet. To live a long and happy life kunekune…
The Kitchen's Garden 