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Pet Turkeys

April 11, 2017by Claire 1 Comment

I thought I had two pet turkeys. Life never turns out as you expect it to. The two turkeys that survived from the five we hatched out last year were […]

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Natural Reproduction

June 23, 2016by Claire 2 Comments

The difference between our turkeys and many commercial ones is that ours reproduce naturally. There has been a lot of turkey love round here recently. And after the sitting fiasco […]

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Animals, Dogs

And that was March…..

April 1, 2016by Claire Leave a comment

Ducklings hatching and turkeys sitting on eggs; lots of tomato seedlings planted and pricked out; rhubarb coming up and leeks being eaten; the bees being checked and the pigs growing. […]

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Sitting Pretty

March 15, 2016by Claire 4 Comments

Spring is here – one of our turkeys is already sitting on a clutch of eggs. Do you see that pile of fencing in the background? There is a gap […]

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Animals

And this was February ….

March 1, 2016by Claire 6 Comments

Happy digging pigs, duck eggs in the incubator, a sneak peak into chicken-flower practice, the first purple sprouting broccoli, three lambs off to ‘university’ and wonderful Kainaat qualifying and winning […]

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Animals, Dogs, gardening

Frosty Animals

February 16, 2016by Claire 5 Comments

This morning was bright, frosty and cold – last night was the coldest night of the winter so far. The animals were covered in frost Except the pigs who slept […]

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Animals, Campsite, Dogs

And this was January

February 2, 2016by Claire 2 Comments

Sheep, and pigs, hens and eggs, sunrises – and of course fossil finding. Custard the cat, walking in Somerset, naughty lambs eating cabbages, lovely Juniper socks, turkeys and naked necks […]

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This is little zephi in a huge amount of pain. Yesterday while trying to wriggle through the top two bars of a hurdle (so he could say hello to a friend walking through the smallholding) he got stuck and dangled screaming by his back legs. I was just a few metres away preparing the goats for milking. By the time I got to him he had wriggled free but couldn’t put his back right leg down. We went straight to the vets. They gave him pain relief and said maybe it was a ruptured cruciate ligament. We went back today to talk about options and get more pain relief. He is in a lot of pain but is being very brave and stoical. He still won’t put his leg down. On Tuesday he’ll have an anaesthetic and x-rays and they’ll manipulate him some more to try and determine what’s wrong. If it is just the cruciate ligament then a very expensive operation (with no insurance) should fix him. If there are other complications or problems then this might not be possible. This is not very good at all. . . #poorlydog #zephi #wsd #cmfzeph

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