Kate Pullen

Evie is still with us and is drinking and eating on her own, but is still not up. I think her scour has stopped, which means she should now start to put on condition. She is still in the downstairs…

Our smallest Angora goat, Evie was down on Monday – completely down, laid on her side and completely lifeless. We rang up the vet, as she had had a hernia operation earlier this year and we were pretty convinced that…

Hat number 2. 

Break for freedom 

Tinks showing how she can climb over gate without having to jump over Basil 

He broke in to say hello the Debbies sheep. She asked that we keep him shut up now, as now he has familiarised himself with the opposite sex, he will be intent on getting back in that field. I must…

I might have been wrong in my comment about moulting hens. It might be that the new feathers come through quill first which is what we are seeing and the whole feather has fallen out first. I have spent quite…

Crocheted pot 

I didn’t know that chickens did this when they moulted, not I suppose, having given it much thought I had assumed that their feathers completely fell out and new ones came through. So it was with a bit of a…

These are our Rhodes, the one on the left has moulted, the one on the right is going through moult now.