We had figured on our first hatch of the year being muscovy ducks. But the due date came and went. It is a bit tricky to decide when they start sitting, as they seem to sit some of the time for a while before getting on with it properly. But we are a week over [...]
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first hatch
Posted in chickens, ducks, livestock, self-sufficiency, tagged chickens, chicks, ducks, muscovy ducks on 2 May 2012 | 5 Comments »
Easter cupcakes
Posted in chickens, general wittering, recipes on 8 April 2012 | 7 Comments »
Hope everyone is having a good Easter weekend We are currently rebuilding the floor in my son’s room – it having rubbish joists and rubbish floorboards, and therefore a worrying feeling my hulking great teenogre will appear downstairs the fast way one day. But it is Easter and Easter is all about spring and fertility [...]
blue marans
Posted in chickens, livestock, tagged chickens on 5 April 2012 | 2 Comments »
We have moved Cosmo and his girls – that is the blue marans crowd, into a private and exclusive hen run. He is a good lad and attentive to his crowd of girls – but in the main run is outnumbered by twenty plus girls of varying ages. He does not seem unhappy with this [...]
how do they know?
Posted in chickens on 22 December 2011 | Leave a Comment »
cosmo and clint
Posted in chickens, livestock, self-sufficiency, smallholding, tagged chickens on 7 December 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sounds like a comedy duo, but Cosmo and Clint are this year’s cockerels – going with the alphabet naming scheme. Alvin, our old welsummer cockerel has moved to an ideal retirement home on my parent’s farm, where he has a lovely small flock of girls to look after and I am told he is still [...]
egg
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, livestock, tagged blue marans, chickens, egg on 4 November 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t think I shall ever get bored of collecting eggs from my chickens. But it has to be said, it is all the more exciting when they are first eggs from your home reared chickens, and again exciting when you find eggs in the nest box after a long egg-free period. So double excitement [...]
autumn equinox
Posted in being greener, chickens, frugal living, general wittering, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, smallholding on 23 September 2011 | 2 Comments »
I was saying to himself, over a munched lunch of freshly picked sweetcorn, that last year we were eating the corn in the sunshine in the garden and what happened to the weather eh? it’s like autumn etc etc. Then we remembered the date.. and perhaps the weather is not unreasonable after all. And our [...]
show
Posted in chickens, dyeing, general wittering, grow your own food, make it yourself, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables on 31 July 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Totnes show today. Haven’t been for a few years, mostly due to weather.. really is not much fun when its muddy and raining. But the weather was ideal – warm but overcast, and along we went. And we did enjoy looking at the sheep and cows, and humming and harring, and dreaming about what we [...]
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