The Easter holiday comes as an annual life saver for me. It is a chance to catch up with everything (including writing my blog!!!). For...

There has been a bit of a duck changeover on the smallholding. The Pekin ducks had grown into brutes, just trampling right over the net...

Well, it's been a while. With the summer hols finished, the return to work did not go quite to plan as Sue and I found ourselves in at ...

More work on the pond First job on our return was to crack on with the big pond. The overflow boggy area wasn't working as it obviously...

A few days back the guinea fowl were shouting at the tops of their voices. They are great guards, a little over enthusiastic at times. But t...

Following on from the previous post about rearing chickens for meat, today I move onto ducks. We breed our own Muscovy Ducks for meat (wh...

Another catch-up post which should bring us to mid July. The drought continues... enough said about that. It is becoming a real problem. ...

Saturday 23rd June 2018 A big day today. 170 Ducklings arriving! Before that, the lambs needed worming and moving down to the main pa...

Saturday 14th April 2018 A dry day and blue skies! Today's job was to build a hazel and willow barricade around the small wildlife pon...

Friday 5th January 2018 Duck! Duck! Duck! Duck! Duck! I received a lovely message in my inbox today. A company who supply hatching kits fo...

Saturday 28th October 2017 Not a hawfinch in sight We've had some beautiful clear days recently and some amazing skies. I've...