Category: Animals
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Did I say Spring?
It’s absolutely my own fault. I should never have mentioned nice weather. The weather gods must have been checking out my last post! Since then I swear the whole Atlantic ocean has landed on our place 🙁 Our damp but good spirited bunch of volunteers have been soldiering on regardless and have been doing a more »
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Animal Update
Firstly, a sad lament for our last pigeon who escaped and went searching for a new mate earlier this week. I hope he finds one. Our other pigeons were taken one by one by what we think we identified as an Egyptian Mongoose about 6 weeks ago. This one survived because Jeroen caught the murdering more »
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New Poultry Run Open for Business
It’s spectacular …. it’s spacious …. it’s the new poultry run! After the difficulties we’ve had with stray dogs and our chickens, we’ve made the rather sad decision that the poultry can’t be routinely free range any more. They’ll still get for out for a scratch about when we’re working on the big veg fields, more »
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Those Ducklings I Promised
I cannot believe how big these guys are getting! They’re co-existing with the chickens really happily now, and have moved into the chicken shed to allow the rabbits more room. The new poultry run should be ready shortly and they’ll welcome the extra space. This little paddling pond they’re using is just a hollow I’ve more »
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New arrival in the Goat Shed
Yesterday evening when I went to milk, I was thrilled to find that Horny the goat had finally produced a little one. I rushed off to fetch the boys, and in those few moments that I was gone she had a second one. This photo was taken within minutes of the births, so no apologies more »
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The Ducklings have Arrived!
There’s six of them, and they’re adorable! Julio from the village got them for us, and they’re the same breed as the delicious bird we had at Christmas. I’ve yet to work out what that actually is. Everyone had told me that ducks make a mess, but I hadn’t appreciated before now actually how much more »