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March 25, 2018by Claire Leave a comment

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 […]

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Animals, Dogs

Snow Day

February 27, 2018by Claire 4 Comments

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 […]

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Animals, Dogs, shepherding

Cutting toe-nails

February 17, 2018by Claire 2 Comments

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 […]

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Animals, shepherding

Cat Got the Milk

February 15, 2018by Claire Leave a comment

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 […]

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Animals

Waiting

February 1, 2018by Claire Leave a comment

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 […]

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My other life, shepherding

Brussel Sprouts

January 3, 2018by Claire 10 Comments

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. […]

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Animals, shepherding

Happy New Year

January 2, 2018by Claire 2 Comments

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 […]

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Animals, Bees, gardening, shepherding

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