sara | April 25, 2010
This week the cattle have left the fold yard and have gone out to graze, no more silage and fodder beet for them but lovely green grass to eat!
The cattle first went out onThursday and came in at night for the first two nights as we had a cow to inject with antibiotics due to [...]
sara | April 25, 2010
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sara | April 23, 2010
Everyone seems to be talking about growing and eating pea shoots. Heard Holly Willoughby on This Morning this week say that she loves pea shoots.
Farming Friends & TopVeg have now collaborated to create a How To Grow Pea Shoots growing card. The TopVeg website always provide me with excellent seed sowing information.
If you would like [...]
sara | April 22, 2010
I am sometimes asked if you should be present when a gilt or sow is farrowing. Some people believe that you should just let the gilt or sow get on with the farrowing. However if your sow/gilt knows you well then she may not mind you being present. It is useful to be on hand [...]
sara | April 21, 2010
Scott from Ozark Bantams website has sent me a message about his golden pheasants and as I have only seen golden pheasants on a petting farm I was interested to learn more about them.
I raise golden pheasants, and I can say they are a pleasure to keep.
The males are always showing off and displaying.
They are [...]
sara | April 18, 2010
Had an email on Friday night letting me know that a duckling was hatching early and then this morning I heard that the yolk sac hadn’t been absorbed.
Hi Sara, just to update you on our eggs. It is not due to hatch until Wednesday next week but it actually started to break the shell yesterday [...]
sara | April 18, 2010
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sara | April 16, 2010
I have 6 ducks and a drake.
3 of the ducks are completely a khaki colour and slightly smaller than the others. The other 3 ducks have some other colours on their wing, a dark blueand white colour and also have yellow stripes near their eyes as if they are wearing a zorro mask. They are [...]
sara | April 15, 2010
It is difficult to guess what gender a duckling is just by looking at the duckling but my ‘farmingfriends’ friend Maureen has challenged me to take a guess at the gender of her three ducklings named Treacle, Toffee and Fudge.
‘Hi Sara, as someone far more knowlegable than me, how do you fancy taking a guess [...]
sara | April 14, 2010
One of my farmingfriends forum members, Mama lives in France and has embden geese. Mama has kindly sent in some photos of her geese so we can see what embden geese look like as another one of our members, Michael was not sure if his geese are embden.
Here are Mama’s embden geese.
Mama is currently waiting [...]
