OMG
Zephi is in love … with the chicks He can’t believe just how cute and adorable they are. This year I am experimenting with plastic boxes as brooders and so […]
Tag Archives: farm life
Snow Day
We don’t get much snow round here so this was quite a surprise. The pigs, alpacas and ewes were all rather stoical about it. The goats (and chickens) on the […]
Cutting toe-nails
Today we trimmed the alpacas’ hooves. Today for the first time since we got the alpacas (maybe 5 or so years ago), I actually trimmed their hooves. Normally I help […]
Cat Got the Milk
Fermie (aka Fermat-Newton, our ginger cats are named after scientists and mathematicians – when you have a lot of cats you need a naming schema of some kind!) has been […]
Waiting
A long day teaching in London followed by a night waiting for Elsie to kid. I thought she was close to giving birth when I left yesterday as her ligaments […]
Brussel Sprouts
A friend called, his girlfriend wanted to know if we could use 500kg of brussel sprouts that a local supermarket were looking to off-load. Err, yes, of course we could. […]
Happy New Year
Happy New Year. Hope 2018 brings you a fuzzy feeling of peace and a general sense of contentment. Here are my best nine instagram posts from 2017: lots of multicoloured […]
Piglets
As our last two rounds of AI did’t work with our Large Black gilts (not 1 and 3) we decided they were more suited to a university career so off […]
Oops
Kenny the ram came to visit with his two Herdy friends. The plan was to keep them in the hugelkultur field for a week and then let the ram in […]
What Would Toffee Do?
There is a new dog training regime round here – WWTD – or what would Toffee do? Toffee is a beautiful, toffee-coloured Spanish hunting dog of a friend. Apparently when a […]
