With the inside in a slightly more acceptable condition, we started to focus on the front of the shed. The cladding was very weather worn and rotting in places and so we decided to strip this off and replace it with treated plywood panels. This was relatively easy as we do tend to excel in… Continue reading The Lambing Shed (Part 2)
By now we had got used to the daily running of the farm and started to look ahead. We put together a list of things that needed doing and realised that we'd have to address them individually, and over a period of months, if not years! Our first priority was to get the lambing shed… Continue reading The Lambing Shed (Part 1)
It's been six months since our last blog post, and rest assured we haven't been resting on our laurels. A lot can happen in that time period and it certainly has! So, lets fill you in on what has been happening... On 28th October 2016 we completed on our farm! After a lot of searching… Continue reading The adventure begins…
This is the time of year where we start moving our woolly friends around and along. Rab and Tag, the Bowmont weathers, have joined us and we are looking forward to seeing how they develop over the next few months. We sold our three coloured ewe lambs to a lovely local couple. These three sre6beautiful… Continue reading Sheepy movements
Mr P-J has been working very hard on the turkey enclosure and it is finally finished! With a bit of help from Binty and Little P we now have netting across the top of the area, just in case the turkeys decide to have a bit of a flap. Much like some aircraft, turkeys are… Continue reading Turkey Tuesdays: Let’s build 3
We have been busy little bees since the last Turkey update! The feathery fiends continue to grow and have now discovered that they can jump up onto the kitchen windowsill to watch daily goings on. The enclosure is coming on well. We have found a shed, put in posts and started the wiring, over a… Continue reading Turkey Tuesdays: Let’s build 2
This weekend Binty and Little P took on the not-so-easy task of worming and Heptavac-ing the flock. For those who aren't well versed in sheep maintenance, it is important to ensure that they are up to date with everything, especially prior to lambing. Heptavac P Plus is a vaccination that covers Pasturella as well as diseases… Continue reading Sheep maintenance
After posting about making a treat for the chickens on Sunday, I remembered that not all of our chickens have had the same start. Earlier this year Binty bought some ex-battery hens who are now in retirement with her. This is retirement in the sense that they weren't bought with the expectation of eggs, simply to… Continue reading Our battery hens
This evening we collected three lovely Blue-Faced Leicester ewe lambs; a coloured and two whites. The coloured girl will be going to a friend who breeds coloured BFLs and the whites will be staying with us and going to the ram next year. At the moment the ewe lambs are pretty much the same size… Continue reading Baby Bluefaces!
This afternoon around 5pm Binty got a call from the contractor who has been sorting out our hay. "The hay is done, but you're going to want to put it away before it starts raining." Sadly by the time the phone-call had ended rain was starting to set in. So, we all pitched in; Mr P,… Continue reading We’ve got hay…sort of
