They don’t look like much now, but in 21 days these beauties will be chicks. One of our old hens, Victoria is an excellent mum and she’s getting a bit broody so we thought we’d put her ample, feathery posterior to good use. We got a dozen fertile eggs from a local chicken breeder for [...]

We have two more bouncy lambs in the flock. I came out this morning to find one of the ewes had birthed triplets in the early hours but sadly, only two had survived. The survival rate for triplets without intervention is quite a bit lower than twins or singles and the lamb that didn’t make [...]

Our Wiltshire ewes have started popping out their lambs and the first two arrived on Friday. It’s been the two older ewes that have lambed so far – I guess they are old hands at it by now and can probably pop out a lamb with a good sneeze. We have eight girls of mixed [...]

When I first posted the pictures of Chickenopolis, Roger asked for some inside pics. I finally got some snaps when I cleaned out the house this week (more compost!) So here are some pictures…and as for dimensions, I used 2.4mx1.2m sheets of ply so the length is 2.4, the height at the front is 1.2, [...]

Daemar and Jack on a sunny morning. They seem to be enjoying their new digs.

Schmoo, our nice but dim kitty has 46 acres of farm to use as his own personal litterbox, but it seems he can’t shake his city ways.

Here are the finished stables. The only thing left to do is fill the bottom of the stalls with sawdust so we can install the old ponies. The rails are 200x40mm old man pine milled by Stu at Salvage Timbers. They did a great job for a fantastic price so if you need any untreated [...]

Today the horses got their weekly dose of new grass. Just minutes before this photo was taken they were yeeha-ing madly around the paddock. You can see Masterton in the background on this beautiful Winter day.

The Chicken Rescue Network is a wee project I set up about 18 months ago after we had re-homed some ex battery hens from the SPCA. It’s just clicked over the 300 member mark and we have re-homed more than 400 chickens, roosters (and the odd duck). It’s a very small drop in the ocean [...]