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sara | April 30, 2008
An article written by James Gulliver of Gullliver Geese on the Growth of the UK market for Fresh Goose. Gulliver Geese are the largest producer of day old goslings in the UK and have goslings for sale from April through to August.
The Goose Market is Getting Fat
Historically Goose was eaten on special occasions such as [...]
sara | April 29, 2008
I planted some red onion sets a few weeks ago and the shoots have just started to appear.
The TopVeg website was able to provide me with excellent onion planting information.
Farming Friends & TopVeg have now collaborated to create a How To Grow Onions growing card.
Click on the image to enlarge and if you wish to print off this growing card, right click [...]
sara | April 28, 2008
I put 38 duck eggs in the incubator on Sunday. I got a dozen khaki campbell duck eggs from ebay. Half a dozen Aylesbury and khaki campbell duck eggs in an exchange for guinea fowl eggs from iaf on the river cottage forum and 24 khaki campbell duck eggs from the rare breed sale in York. [...]
sara | April 26, 2008
A hen is egg bound when they cannot lay their egg. This maybe because;
the oviduct is too small for the egg to pass through,
the egg may have broken and cannot slip through or
the shell of the egg is too soft to let the egg pass through.
Young pullets sometimes find it difficult to lay the first [...]
sara | April 25, 2008
Are guinea fowl eggs a speciality egg or just a small egg? I have been pondering this thought recently as I have decided to sell some guinea fowl eggs for eating at the farm gate. As I made the decision to sell my eggs, the next question to answer was how much to charge?
I did [...]
sara | April 24, 2008
Fluffy The CatIt was four years ago to this date that I found Snowy the cat in the heifer barn with four kittens. My friend Izzy took two of the kittens and we kept two, who became Tigger and Fluffy (two beautiful white and ginger tom cats). Tigger used to follow me everywhere Fluffy followed [...]
sara | April 23, 2008
My five remaining gilts from my sows’ first litters are nearly 6 months old. They are lovely good natured Saddleback pigs. They have been raised in the barn and have enjoyed playing in the straw, rooting for clumps of grass and fodder beat, dashing about the barn and playing with a football or empty milk container. [...]
sara | April 22, 2008
Last week I planted some tomato seeds.
The TopVeg website was able to provide me with excellent seed sowing information.
Farming Friends & TopVeg have now collaborated to create a How To Grow Tomatoes growing card.
How To Grow TomatoesClick on the image to enlarge and if you wish to print off this growing card, right click on the enlarged image and then click print [...]
sara | April 21, 2008
I received an email asking if guinea fowl can mix with peacocks and how they can be separated,
“We have recently received 2 male peacocks. Ever since introducing them into our little farm one of the female guinea’s will only stay with the peacocks. I know this is a dumb question, but can they mate, and [...]
sara | April 20, 2008
Here are a few photographs taken on the day that the piglets were born (Thursday 10th April 2008).
These are British Saddleback piglets that are less than a day old.
