Woolly Tales Belinda Bibble-Bott and her Egg Yolk Peritonitis Belinda Bibble-Bott (Belinda for short) is one of our big, friendly Orpington hens who came to us as eggs back The daily hay ceremony From the end of October through to the beginning of April (give or take), we move the little darlings Planting apple trees Back in the summer we decided it would be nice to plant some more apple trees. Over the last few Cud transfaunation for Witchy You can tell a lot about the health of an animal by what comes out the back end. One of Shovelling sheep manure Every so often it's time to do some dung shifting here on the smallholding. Despite having a relatively small flock “A diary update” – by Elliot – Anatolian Shepherd rescue dog from Turkey The last time I wrote in my diary was over a year ago. You can read my last story here. Drystane dyke repair This is not the the first story about drystane dykes and probably won't be the last. Most of the ground Flystrike prevention This summer's been a bit funny weatherwise, after a hot and dry May and June (so dry that we ran A health check for Vi A couple of weeks ago as I was cleaning out the field shelter, the sheep milling about me 'helping', I Woolly veggie patch We have a large area for growing veggies; six rectangles of about 2 x 4 metres. We like to grow Hand shearing Vera Since last week's story about shearing, we still had one sheep left to shear - sweet Vera. Vera has photo-sensitive Shearing 2023 Last Saturday I was just back from walking the dogs and was sitting down for a cuppa when the phone Cuddle training the hens – part two Progress with the hen "cuddle training" since my last blog story has been a slow. Mainly because I have been Cuddle training the hens – part one Last year we came to the realisation that our hens had gone a little too feral for our liking. This Cherokee the cockerel and his foot problems For the past few months we've been bringing our friendly cockerel Cherokee into the kitchen to perform a minor procedure Hen spa in the kitchen Our chicks who hatched last summer have grown into big, beautiful hens. It sounds cliche, but it's hard to imagine 1 2 3 … 16 Next »