Category: Friesland Farm

Where has the last week gone, it seems to have flown past very quickly! We have had all kinds of weather, bright blue skies with frosty mornings, plunging freezing temperatures and now a blanket of Snow! I prefer the warmth the snow brings to the bone chilling cold that we had just before it, it…

Well we managed to trap the elusive fox finally, but there is now another! After re-setting the trap and inspecting it the next morning we found that we had caught another but he had managed to rip the metal off the bottom of the trap and dig his way out! This will call for a…

We use rubber eggs here at the farm for two reasons, firstly to encourage the hens to lay in the correct place, otherwise they can randomly lay all over the place and every day would be an egg hunt! Secondly some hens take to egg eating, this is something you need to nip in the…

I hope you all had a lovely festive season, I thought I would give myself a couple of weeks off from the blog, I was, as I suspect were you, too busy in the run up to Christmas and too tired afterwards! Well the New Year has certainly blown its way in here, the winds…

We are well and truly in the season of mud here, for a time during Autumn we get some mud but the Sun comes out and dries it up again, from here on in that wont happen again until March, unless it freezes! It is a daily case of slipping your way to the fields. I…

Good morning bloggers, it is a cold North Westerly blowing here this morning, making it very fresh indeed! We were up early, having a dentist appointment at 9am means action stations or we would never have got there in time. Luckily no treatment needed for another 6 months 🙂 I rather jinxed everything in last…

I have just checked the outside thermometer and it is registering -5, that’s a whole 2 degrees warmer than when I first checked it at 6.30 this morning!! It’s a bit of a shock to the system to say the least, but I am well prepared this year and so I donned my salopettes, warm…

Unfortunately we have been put on our guard this week and become suspicious of every new vehicle and person that comes! During the night last Tuesday someone broke into a van which was parked about 1/2 mile up the road and stole £1000 worth of work tools, since then we have heard of two other…

Good morning, we have had a mixed bag of weather over the last week but yesterday was glorious, lots of sunshine and great temperatures for the time of year. We have to embrace those days when they come as they will be fewer and further between from now until the end of February!! The rain…