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A goat ending story

30 September 2022
accident, animal, family, farm, goat, la, life, rusty, scenery, vet

How do you transport a goat that does not want to lay down, is somewhat hyperactive (on three legs) and takes interest in everything?

Erwien’s return

17 November 2021
animal, duck, duckling, people, places, rescue, vet

Erwien came back this years with a new bunch of ducklings and proudly presented them, just like last year. She’s such a good mummy.

The return of Erwien

2 October 2020
animal, cat, duck, duckling, food, friend, people, places, rescue, vet

What a joy and surprise that was when a few days ago Erwien showed up with a boyfriends and a whole bunch of fluffy ducklings.

Hard work weekend

14 December 2019
abigail, accident, family, farm, kids, rusty, shearing, shelter, vet, water

A weekend of alpaca shearing, vet attendance, fixing fences and water troughs.

Buddies for Bludger and Quack

13 October 2019
animal, baby, duck, duckling, feed, friend, rescue, vet

The vet found Daffy in his grandpa feeder for his chickens and Norbert got dropped of at the local vets. We thought we would take them home so they can be friends for our other rescue ducks.

Ziggy having a bad day

12 February 2019
accident, animal, birds, cat, dinner, event, family, land, night, rusty, sun, vet, ziggy

Exploring our bush

6 October 2018
kids, land, picnic, valley, vet, water, weather

We had a few hours of exploring our little bush strip in the gully.

New fluff arrivals – more rescues

5 June 2017
animal, cat, cheetah, family, kahlua, kitten, places, rescue, silver, vet

We had our lovely cat Kahlua with us for about 12 years, maybe a bit less however after such a long time you lose count – it feels like forever though. You get the idea. After she passed away and we were grieving for some time, we felt the urge to fill the void.

Bonfire

27 October 2016
dry, fire, friend, kids, land, marshmallows, sunset, vet

After we cut all the dead privets off along the boundary fence last Monday, we thought that we could as well burn it as it was dry and there was hardly any wind on that day. The kids concluded that we could then have a bonfire, have marshmallows and invite some friends. Said and done

First prize for Jolan and Cheeky calf

21 October 2016
ag-day, animal, cheeky, la, school, vet, waimauku

Today was Waimauku School AG(ricultural) day. For those cityslickers who do not know what AG day is, it is a school day where all school children have the opportunity to showcase their hand-reared calf, lamb or chicken along with a variety of other categories for those unable to rear an animal.

Getting closer

12 January 2016
building, house, la, news, night, vet

Yay, we are getting closer. Yesterday the electrician finished his work and it’s great to have lights everywhere to work even longer to get all finished.

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