I had hoped to get a decent photograph of our young Scots Grey pullets and cockerels joining the main flock today. However, they took one look at the camera and bolted into the darkest corner of the big poultry run where they clustered into a shivering huddle. The photo, above, was the best image I [...]
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Dinner queue
28 September, 2011
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Our Berkshire sows can be scattered across the hillside. Some can be asleep. Some can be grubbing up roots. Some can be sunbathing. Some can be chatting up “the boy”. But no matter how busy they are are and no matter how quietly I try to fill the feed buckets, whenever I venture out with [...]
Read more ‘Walkies? Please?’
28 September, 2011
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I’d taken the camera out to photograph our poultry, but as I walked up the ramp from the outbuildings I spotted Gus, our Berkshire boar, trying to open the gate from his pen. He had the bolt between his teeth and had turned it inwards, but not managed to get it open. This time. As [...]
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