Two chucks died in two days, not a good week, and not a good record.
One of the old girls, a real beaut, had her final days. Meaty girl, big hole. The other was a bantam who had a small foot problem which the other girls had noticed and begun to peck. This morphed into physical leg issues which we tried to medicate, but without success., so the vet euthenased her. Interesting fact #37 from David the vet “chickens are solitary animals not flock birds”. Interesting comment from him “it’s a privilege to do this”, ease an animal out of pain!
More fishy goings on in our pond. There was I observing the frogspawn and my…
Is river rock-pooling a thing? It is on the Wye, especially when the frogs are…
A polytunnel! “If it takes two or three men, two or three days to erect…
It feels a bit false to say that because we have only known the greenhouse…
Yes, there are dull days in January. Dull, dreary, dreich, cold, freezing, snowy (or “wintry…
We had a software glitch which rendered the site unstable. We are glad to report…
