News and Blog – Page 16 – Pukeatua Farmstay

Animal moving day

21 August 2016
Animal, Cow, Family, Grass, La, News

Today we separated the cows and the alpacas. The mowerbots (alpacas) are now on our upper paddock to get the grass under control. Look how high it has grown. The cows remain back in the other paddock and we have a new family member in the middle paddock. More news re the new family member late

Finally winter – cold nights

3 July 2016
Feed, Land, Night, Sea, Valley, Winter

I love the seasons and their distinctive differences. Autumn with its colours and now winter with their crisp, cold and blue mornings. I went down the valley this morning to feed the cows and alpacas. We feed they hay to warm them up and they love it. Took some pictures on they way. The alpacas greeted me with frost on their backs. What a lovely cold morning.

Winter weather

26 June 2016
Land, Rain, Scenery, Sun, Weather, Winter

This is a picture I have just taken from the deck just after a big downpour. Still raining but what a scenery. Shows that the landscape is beautiful even in bad weather, but then, what is bad…

May bonfire

2 May 2016
Bonfire, Family, Fire, Friend, Land, Landscape, Marshmallow, News, Night

We could not have asked for a better and more beautiful night for our May bonfire. We invited some friends for Walpurgis night, the last night in April.

Two more rescues

14 April 2016
Animal, Family, La, News, Rat, Rescue

Two more rescues are becoming part of the family. They came with infected claws and paws and one was missing part of the tail. Now they are all fine again and quirky as.