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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

Alpaca Wool

March 2, 2018by Claire 10 Comments

Is is cold and snowy here, but the alpacas don’t seem to mind too much – although I do note they are actually using their shelter at the moment. So […]

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Animals, shepherding

Pregnant?

January 19, 2018by Claire 4 Comments

Today’s question is: has Elsie eaten too many brussel sprouts or is she pregnant? What do you think? I think that is definitely a baby bump. I don’t really know […]

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Animals

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

Winter Eating

December 26, 2017by Claire 9 Comments

I like cooking for friends. This week we have lots of lovely people coming to visit us and i am planning what to make. Planning menus used to take sometime […]

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gardening

Piglets

December 12, 2017by Claire Leave a comment

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 […]

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Animals, Food Truck

Putting the bees to bed

November 12, 2017by Claire 2 Comments

Earlier in the week I finally got round to putting my bees to bed for the winter. I wrapped them in chicken wire – well the hives, not the individual […]

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Bees, shepherding

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