Saturday 3rd August 2019

Never a dull moment
Today has been full of animals slightly doing things that have made us go: 'really?'. We have had kittens in sinks, sheep in water troughs (dry ones, dry troughs that is, not sheep...) and as the bottom photo shows: a chicken, a duck and a turkey all sharing a nest box and trying to 'sit' on six eggs between them.
The best was Pebbles though doing an amazingly good impression of a dead goat, such that only when we knelt down and actually touched her (somewhat nervously) did she dain to open one eye, give us a 'look' and then re-close it!!!
So glad she was so comfy and chilled!!!
Relaxed at Home
Relaxed at Home
Banana, who left her first brood to fend for themselves a good three weeks ago now, had obviously begin laying again and several days ago stopped coming into the stable at night, signifying that she was indeed now ‘sitting’!!
We are reasonably confident we don’t have a fox around at the moment and as far as being hidden goes, she has chosen a fab spot, so... fingers crossed.. (we do of course have the alpacas in the field next door).
Whilst we don’t really need any more ducklings (we have bred almost 50 this year), we have a poultry course at the end of the month and by then, the eggs will hopefully be hatching, so actually... great timing Banana.. well done!!