Gosling!!

Our two mums have hatched a sweet little gosling! All the geese are acting as a very protective family. There are still two eggs they are still sitting on but it has been several days since the first hatched so not expecting any more but they have proved good partents so I'm sure we will get more next year!

More fencing!

Well the fencing around the raised beds is finished with the addition of a large tank of water ready for all this sunshine we are going to get!? Also 4 beds are now full of potatoes. I'm hopeing to get more planting out done in the next day or so!

Sadly we have lost one of the ducks to a fox which had got in through a gap in the fence, now fixed with sonar scarers in place to make it not a nice place to visit again.

On the up side our last lot of eggs we incubated returned 5 out of 6 to hatch so we now have a total of 10 chicks at various ages keeping us on our toes!

Fencing...

No not the sword kind, got home from work to find one line of fence up around the raised beds and a war wounded Andrew who had been hammering his finger as well as the posts! I'm off work tommorow so at least he will have a second pair of hands to help him hold the posts up, will be keeping my hands well clear though!

Sunshine on a rainy day...

Today was cloudy and rainy not good for the instalation of our nice new solar panel, photos and how well it works to follow!

Tomorrow we are off to a smallholders show at the Royal Welsh showground which should be interesting!

Other news is that Dodger has more room to play as we have installed eletric fencing to give him a bigger area and the oldest of the new chicks is in his old run inside the new area so they can see each other safely. Also we have nearly finished enclosing the allotment area ready to be used safe in the knowledge our feathered friends can't damage the young plants!

A whole load of manure

That's what we were shoveling today into the new raised beds :-) Although still need to add a lot more soil to them also ready for the seedlings I am planting in the greenhouse at the moment which comprises of carrots, cabbage, leeks, onions, garlic, parsnips for starters. Also planted tomato and pepper seeds but they will be staying in the greenhouse.

New arrivals!

Well we have two new arrivals in the form of two more Light Sussex chicks one hatched before I left for work yesterday and the other had hatched when I got home. Both seem lively and chatty!

Although we have also a unwanted arrival in the form of scaly leg mite on Dodger, he must have brought them with him when we got him but only recently started showing symptoms so we have started treatment today and although kept seperate we are treating all the chickens as can take a while for symptoms to show as the mites are tiny little blighters, the fun bit will be catching Henna and Sulky to treat them!

Bed Time!

Well whilst I have been working Andrew has been busy putting in new planting beds so we will have plenty of room for the seedlings I have been sowing in the greenhouse. Looking at the amount of beds I will have to plant a lot more seeds!!