Special K
We found a lump on Special K’s neck last week. It was huge – the size of my fist. I suspected it was an abscess. I phoned the vet and […]
Tag Archives: small farm
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 […]
Alpaca Wool
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 […]
Pregnant?
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 […]
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 […]
Winter Eating
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 […]
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 […]
Putting the bees to bed
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 […]
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 […]
Massacre
On Thursday night a fox came and left 31 dead chickens in our main coop. Most of my rare-breed Ixworth chickens that I have been breeding for the last couple […]
