This is one of our cows, with a two day old calf. Our herd are pure Aberdeen Angus. They are a tough breed, noted for strong mothering ability and the ability to thrive in our Canadian winters without huge barns and a great deal of extra feed. Many people claim the angus to be wild and hard to handle, but on sunny winter days when the barn door is open, you literally have to walk over the cattle to get inside the barn. In the summer, you have a good chance of being surrounded in the field as they beg to be scratched.

These are some of our geese, strolling around the driveway. The brown ones are African geese. the white one in the middle of the group is an Egyptian goose and the the white one on the right is an Emden. For the most part, our poultry are free ranging. Once the lettuce is planted out, we spend a great deal of time fencing the garden plots to keep them out. Otherwise, they eat all the lettuce, and sample everything else they see. (they don't like zucchini, but they insist on trying each and every one of them they see just in case they find one they do like) The building on the left is the pole barn, where the cattle live in the winter.

This is Newfie, our geriatric Newfoundland Pony, who lives with the cattle.

These are some of our pigs, we usually get a few every year in the spring. The fellow in the middle seems to be trying to decide if the camera might be a treat or if we're just trying to steal some of his food. On hot days like the one when this picture was taken, the pigs will burrow into the part of the pen that isn't floored in concrete, coating themselves with mud to stay cool. Just like dogs and cats, pigs don't sweat, so they spend a good portion of the summer rolling in mud. Given the choice, pigs are naturally housetrained and will pick one place to eat, one to sleep and one to do 'other business'. In spring and fall when the days are cooler, these pigs will keep themselves perfectly clean.