Tropical Heritage Garden Diary: May 2015:

Images of sunny garden after rain in
the night

01:30 PM -Overcast with short showers

Images of overcast and light rain in the garden

Duckpond refreshed with clean water
Two fish died yesterday

Newly planted pots back in old nursery area
Lemon, Star Anise, Tamarind and Mixed Herbs
Images of newly planted seeds in pots

Other seedlings in new nursery area

Images of seedlings in nursery area

Beans still growing well in protected patches

Images of beans growing in Banana patch

Images of beans growing in coconut patch

Images of bush beans growing in banana patch

Northern garden recently cleaned up by Terri

Images of newly cleaned garden plots

While the rest looks pretty barren

Images of drought hit garden

Born Yesterday!

Miss Piggy takes a break while finishing touches are added to the maternity suit

Images of men working on pig pen

Bebe and Alex add anti-roll bars to protect piglets

While Terri plants Ubi and similar root vegetables

Images of woman working on root crop patch in garden

Images of woman working on root crop patch in garden

Tugi and Ubi

Duckpond cleaned again today
Very hot weather encourages algae growth?
Images of algae invested duckpond being refreshed

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Ducklings: New, Recent -and Soon to Be!

Images of new, recent, and soon to be ducklings

Born today Born May 3 Still Waiting....

While Miss Piggy awaits her turn

Images of pregnant pig resting

Recently planted herbs start sprouting

11:50 PM -Strange noises in the pig pen

Images of newly born piglets

Miss Piggy is shy about feeding them

The Full Litter

Immages of dead, sick and healthy
piglets from a single litter

2 Born dead, 2 crippled (one more than the other) and 8 healthy

Birthday Flowers

Images of garden flowers

(Two healthy piglets crushed in the night)

4 PM 3 PM

Six Survivors

(However, there are still feeding problems with mother's milk)

Young and Old ducklings eating together

Images of young and old ducklings

May 12:

Second Runt dies in the night
(trampled on by others)

Images of hungry piglets running
around in creep space

Farrowing Pen has become a Creep Space as refuge

Images of pig sleeping, eating and
being massaged

Waiting to be let out

Images of piglets waiting to see mother

At Last!

Images of suckling piglets

But still problems with mother's milk -now being hand fed since Monday afternoon

So back home for a snack....

Images of Piglets being fed by bottle

Some Ducklings are adventurous -and others less so......

Images of young ducklings

Newly planted seeds still growing

Images of newly plnted seeds in pots

Those planted earlier too

Images of seedlings in pots

Birthday Flowers for me too!

Images of flowers blooming in garden

Nice Surprises: A bit of rain in the night.....

(for the chickens too!)

May 25 (Monday):

First warnings of diarrhea

Lazy cat ignoring crisis in pig pen

May 26 (Tuesday):

The struggle to provide fluids to keep them alive

Imgages of sick piglet being hand fed

They go to bed -and we prepare for the next session

Images of piglets and supplies for
feeding

Feeding every 30 -60 mins. -when they wake up

...and we sleep between meals too...

Images of spmeone sleeping next to pig pen -ready
for feeding