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...

This seems a long time ago now Six months does not seem a long time for a table bird to live before it makes the journey into the freeze...

29th March 2018 I am keeping a diary of the progress of Ewe 0004 and her lamb, but I am going to publish it all at once when I know what th...

Wednesday 14th February 2018 Valentine's Day What more romantic activity for Valentine's Day can there be than killing and pluckin...

Saturday 30th December 2017 Poultry thinning The Muscovy ducks are so big now that, despite recently waving goodbye to four of them, there...

There is much I disagree with about the activities of the shooting and hunting fraternity. There is also much I disagree with about those wh...

November is the killing month. Animals have fed on the summer's bounty and the land won't sustain them all through the winter. It...