Pretending to Farm

One inner city couple's experiences of moving to the country and trying our hand at farming, homesteading and self sufficiency

Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Rosie and the Lambs

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Our beautiful (now deceased) English Mastiff, Rosie, acting as a foster mother for the orphaned lambs. She was the gentlest, sweetest nat...

Pinkerton versus the world

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The world's bravest cat Pinkerton the cat has been teaching the dogs to respect a cat's authority since they arrived in the...

Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumper over (and broke) the (brand new) fence

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Oh no, here she comes and we are in this paddock with the newly planted trees and we really shouldn't be in here eating them and trampli...

Love a (Muscovy) Duck

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Once we (thought we) had mastered the art of chicken management we were keen to expand our skills to other poultry types. So we bought ten M...
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Monday, 4 April 2011

How to Know when your Ewe is Lambing

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Ewes generally follow a similar pattern when they are about to give birth. Most of the following signs will be displayed, but possibly no...
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Saturday, 19 March 2011

Cerys- the goddess of agriculture

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Cerys: The first of our very own lambs born on Morilla Above: The first four girls we bought to keep Enoch company once he was no...
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Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Beginners' Guide to Chickens: Part One: The strange chicken man and how we got our hens

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We bought our hens off of a very strange man indeed. We arrived at his farm to collect the year old hens I had ordered over the phone. Th...
Tuesday, 8 March 2011

How to Look after Yabbies- Sweet little dam dwelling crustaceans.

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The first thing to know about yabbies is that if you are lucky enough to have them in your dam, don't tell anyone! People will sneak on ...
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Sunday, 6 March 2011

For the Love of Coffee, the Orphaned Calf

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  Coffee came to us after her mother died from a prolapsed uterus shortly after she was born. The cows, beautiful Brahmans, belonged to ...
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The Art of Raising Orphaned Lambs

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. Raising your orphaned lamb 101 If you find an orphaned lamb whose mother has died, you will need to feed it and care for it or it will...
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I am an ex city girl who, along with my husband, gave away inner city living and moved to a 2,500 acre farm in Western Australia. 5 years later, and after much consideration, we had to accept that the quiet and isolated farming life was not for us. We do enjoy a little excitement in our lives from time to time! These are the tales of a non farming couple who went true rural, found that the broadacre country life was not what we were looking for, but we did not want to return to the bustle of the city full time! We have finally settled in a small rural town close to the city where we manage a small 40 acre lifestyle property. Here is what we learned about land, animals, and the country life.
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