Our new chickens are settling in well. This year we decided to buy in six from Moonridge Farm in Exeter, www.MoonridgeFarm.co.uk @moonridge_farm, the stock is always looks healthy and well looked after. We have bought ducks and goslings from them in the past who have thrived into adults. I would really recommend. We normally...
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Geese are laying!
Last year our first goose egg was laid by our ladies on 25th February. This year it was today, 26th February 2020! Talk about keeping to a timetable. Quite amazing! Next it will be the swallows turning up on April 14th …… which they always do, give or take a day. I know what...
Continue readingRIP Mrs Goose
WARNING: This blog entry contains some pictures readers may not like. As usual, I went out last night to lock the animals away at dusk. The chickens always go back to their coup, to roost, so it is just a case of shutting the door. The dog lets me know if there is a...
Continue readingJemima has gone! Was it a Fox?
Ok, so the other day, my favourite duck (the only white one I have, and hatched out last year) disappeared. She was there in the early evening, and when I went to put all the ducks to bed they were all behaving oddly....
Not eggactly the same size
Sticking with the geese theme this week, here is a comparison of egg sizes. From left to right. A large chicken ? egg, a duck ? egg, and a goose ? egg on the right. The goose egg is about 10cm in length....
More Fencing
I’ve lost track of how much fencing I have put up in the past 5 years. Since arriving in North Devon, we have created lots of enclosures for the animals. Currently the geese in the front field are kept in with temporary fencing. They have recently learnt that they can just walk over it....
Continue readingThe chickens are coming into lay.
Each year, the chickens cease to amaze me. They are so sensitive to day light, that as soon as the days start to get longer, they start to lay more. We are only a couple of weeks after the Winter Solstice. During December, the chickens were producing an average of one egg every other...
Continue readingHappy New Year! A Photo a Day for 2019?
Last year, the aim was to do a blog a week. I achieved this with 76 articles, so slightly better than I expected. This year, can I do better ….. a photo a day? We will see. Today I spent the first day of 2019 in the garden, pruning roses and vines in the...
Continue readingEgg Static
New Season Ducks are Laying Well The ducks we hatched out this year (along with the 5 Khaki Campbells we bought) have been laying well for a month now. The four ducks we hatched have all matured to be female (one white - probably a White Campbell, and four black - some genetic throw...
Continue readingLet Them Eat Tea Cake?
Geese Eat Grass Not Tea Cakes! We’ve had to put a sign up, as passers by have been feeding the geese extra snacks. What people don’t realise is that geese predominantly eat grass and greens. So bread snacks, roast beef and yorkshire pudding are shouldn’t be part of their diet. Anyway, the geese are...
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