About a couple of weeks after moving, Gwilym's 30th birthday present from my Mum was 6 chickens - they arrived in good condition although looking a little younger than what they should have been. They are now laying 6 eggs a day regularly - I cannot make enough cakes to keep up and so have started to sell them in the honesty egg shop!
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It did not take long for the 2 cats to settle down here - they really enjoy chasing mice, and the rabbits! They do not think much of the inhabitants in the field however!
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Chloe is the fluffy one, and Bandy is the skinny one. Don't be surprised if you leave the yurt or house doors pen to find either or both of them curled up on your bed!
Back in October we had our second additions to our smallholding - Kune Kune 'Lady' and her brood of 3. Unfortunately our boy Brick died before Christmas but the 2 piglets left are doing very well and growing quickly.
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Unfortunately Lady is no longer with us, being sent to pig heaven in the sky via the butchers, and we bagged up 100 bags of 6 premier Kune Kune sausages with gammon, bacon and hams joining us in the next month or so.
We will be looking for a home for Peanut (Nuts) and Noodle (Noods) in the next month or so, as we have recently found out that they are not a good specimen of Kune Kune and so unable to breed from them. They have been replaced by 3 very beautiful sows, the lovely Onion who is making babies with a film star boar called Brad Pig
Rita, who flops over on her back with all four legs in the air for a belly rub!
And LittlePig, who is partly lame, deaf in one ear and is the smallest of the group and so gets picked on by Nuts and Noods.
They were moved up to the yurt field on the hottest weekend of the year so far, and now they have about 2 acres to run around, wallow in the mud and root in!
Fred the tortoise is still growing well - although we have moved im from the one living room to the other, he does not usually like disruption. He is thriving now that the garden is growing again, as he loves the weeds that grow, especially dandelion leaves!
We have been working on our orchard and vegetable patch, although it is still fence posts at the moment, and the trees will not be planted until the autumn.
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We released a hedgehog in the wild up here a few weeks back, and he has been enjoying the slugs that feast on my plants in the garden!
I believe we have 2 escape artists in the shape of billy goats joining us soon, apparently whenever they see children, they jump the fence so that they can join in and play games with them! Look out for them from the middle of June onwards!
It did not take long for the 2 cats to settle down here - they really enjoy chasing mice, and the rabbits! They do not think much of the inhabitants in the field however!
Chloe is the fluffy one, and Bandy is the skinny one. Don't be surprised if you leave the yurt or house doors pen to find either or both of them curled up on your bed!
Back in October we had our second additions to our smallholding - Kune Kune 'Lady' and her brood of 3. Unfortunately our boy Brick died before Christmas but the 2 piglets left are doing very well and growing quickly.
Unfortunately Lady is no longer with us, being sent to pig heaven in the sky via the butchers, and we bagged up 100 bags of 6 premier Kune Kune sausages with gammon, bacon and hams joining us in the next month or so.
We will be looking for a home for Peanut (Nuts) and Noodle (Noods) in the next month or so, as we have recently found out that they are not a good specimen of Kune Kune and so unable to breed from them. They have been replaced by 3 very beautiful sows, the lovely Onion who is making babies with a film star boar called Brad Pig
Rita, who flops over on her back with all four legs in the air for a belly rub!
And LittlePig, who is partly lame, deaf in one ear and is the smallest of the group and so gets picked on by Nuts and Noods.
They were moved up to the yurt field on the hottest weekend of the year so far, and now they have about 2 acres to run around, wallow in the mud and root in!
Fred the tortoise is still growing well - although we have moved im from the one living room to the other, he does not usually like disruption. He is thriving now that the garden is growing again, as he loves the weeds that grow, especially dandelion leaves!
We have been working on our orchard and vegetable patch, although it is still fence posts at the moment, and the trees will not be planted until the autumn.
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We released a hedgehog in the wild up here a few weeks back, and he has been enjoying the slugs that feast on my plants in the garden!
I believe we have 2 escape artists in the shape of billy goats joining us soon, apparently whenever they see children, they jump the fence so that they can join in and play games with them! Look out for them from the middle of June onwards!