Quailettes
We have three little quails. They are tiny, not much bigger than a 10p piece and a lot lighter! Two hatched overnight on Tuesday and one on Wednesday morning. They took about 24 hours from first pipping to complete hatch.…
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Hadrian
Of course Ian’s birthday present is not an ostrich. However I shall take it that he was dropping a veiled hint and will keep a look out for ostrich eggs on ebay. His birthday present is Hadrian, the angora billy…
my toy doesn’t work
Well tonight I actually started writing my blog on my handheld with the intention of hotsynching to the pc and uploading from there. Unfotunately for some reason I can no longer connect the handheld to the PC. I’ll get it…
Update
well, Crumpets babies still appear to be alive, although anything else which tries to set foot in the cage obvioulsy doesn’t. I put a carrot in for her earlier, and it was like watching pirahnas at work. I hope she…
Don’t look her in the eye!
Well the Mineral House menagerie increases again courtesy of Crumpet and Stud Muffin. As I see that Kate has already explained, Crumpet had been some way over her expected time. In fact Kate has redone her maths and now believes…
Crumpet has had babies
and I think that every mother reading this will have a certain amount of empathy for the poor buns, given that last night she and Muffin were ‘playing’ together, at a point where she was 5 days overdue. To put…
Horrace and Hovis
What a shock! We had Horrace, our big stud ram who fathered all of our lambs this year, sheared. And he shrunk! He is tiny under all of that fleece. Herdies are much smaller than they at first appear, I…
Sound of silence
by putting ply wood over the windows of the chicken shed, we make their home dark, which makes them sleep which means that Kevin and Simon (and Mr Silkie) don’t feel the need to crow from 3.30 onwards. Bliss! They…
Ian says that the hill is nicely in focus! However at least it proves we do have owl!!!
It might not be pretty…
…but at this moment in time I truly believe that the barbed wire that I have run approximately along the top of the dry stone wall facing the road will prevent any sheep from breaking out of land. Admittedly we…