One of the things we enjoy about living in the country is observing the interactions of the animals - both among their own kind and with...

On a farm (even just a pretend one like ours), there are always arrival and departures (see Sheep Diaries: The day has come). But Sunday...

At last the time has come to say goodbye to our boys: the boys born this spring (see Sheep Diaries: Our first lambs). They were weaned a...

... you might be pleased (at least, if you are an amateur like me) to take a half-decent photograph - one that goes some way to convey...

We had come to the conclusion that lambs would either be born all black or all white, and in an alternate sequence, as it turns out. (The...

Next, it was the turn of one of the 'Pohangina Three' (two of whom lost lambs to pneumonia last year [see: Sheep Diaries - the...

It was Saturday, and we had just come home from an afternoon of geocache-hiding in Rangitikei as part of our Wildbore series. Dusk was...

It is spring! And that means lambing season - an exciting time of us, as near-novices to sheep husbandry. To record our happenings,...

This blog was originally published in 2011 on envirohistory NZ. Though my implement of choice for environmental history is the pen (or...