Tag: chickens
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Bird flu, gale force winds, snow, rain and a whole load of other stuff!
Monday: 15th Jan 2018 What a different Monday this week, last week it was dry and stayed dry all week which meant the ground got easier and easier to walk on, today a weather front has arrived like an unwelcome house guest and peed us all off, back to trudging, that’s the only word for…
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Seed order, missing dog and red mite remedies.
Monday 8th Jan: It’s cold but dry this morning, did the morning rounds, one of the hens from the front paddock seems to have a bad leg so I got her in and put her in a stable with some water and food. She wasn’t walking very far so wouldn’t be able to get to…
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Rouge ferret, sad goodbyes and an eco egg.
Monday PM: Just got back from my away day with the girls and a fabulous time was had by all of us 😀 Update on the Guinea pig versus ferret episode: Saturday night, I heard the guinea pig squealing at around 10pm went out with a torch to see a ferret chewing on his neck,…
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Steaming the pudding, more unwelcome visitors and cuddling a chicken
I picked up some reduced cranberries in the supermarket, had to be a bargain at only 5p 😀 I will probably use them to make a cranberry and orange sauce to go with cold meats at Christmas as we are not having turkey this year. I may pick up some more if they have any…
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Soup, ducks and a big hole!
Monday, felt great, well rested from not doing much at the weekend, decided to get a move on and start clearing the garden and tidy up, it was going well, I took up and old raised bed and moved all the earth to a new bed, dismantled the rotten sides and levelled out the ground,…
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Harvest Moon
I have been writing things down as I go along this week otherwise I usually find I cant remember what I did and write the blog in a haphazard way. After our weekend away the first job on the list was picking as this had not been done since the Thursday before, there were plenty…
