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In The Potting Shed: June 2009
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In The Potting Shed. A Place to Potter, Ponder and Procrastinate! Wednesday, 17 June 2009. On feeding the chickens this morning, I was met with a jaw dropping sight. Patch two had been totally massacred. By Deer. My spinach had been gnawed. Within an inch of its life and my runner beans were nothing but leafless stalks. Fence now as once they've had a taste they will surely be back for more. For now I have propped up dozens of 6ft planks against. Much to my dismay, my carrots have failed me! I happened t...
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In The Potting Shed: Cockadoodle...urk!!!
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In The Potting Shed. A Place to Potter, Ponder and Procrastinate! Wednesday, 22 April 2009. We played out our normal scenario and watched as all three hens flew up and then down. We stood and waited for Maestro to make his grand appearance but it never came. I peaked over the top of the door to find an empty stable and no Maestro at all. Burt was the next one in line for the pot but due to Maestro's demise, he has now secured his place at the farm. Looks like the best cockerel won!
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In The Potting Shed: May 2008
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In The Potting Shed. A Place to Potter, Ponder and Procrastinate! Tuesday, 13 May 2008. There is now a woodchip floor in the coop as the birds were getting so brown and muddy when it rained. The coccidiae eggs hide away in such flooring and instead of disinfecting, the vet has suggested that I thoroughly rake over the coop thus exposing the eggs to the heat of the sun and killing them off. Chickens sitting hunched up with ruffled feathers. A decline in laying. The Complete Encyclopedia of Chickens. Some ...
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In The Potting Shed: March 2009
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In The Potting Shed. A Place to Potter, Ponder and Procrastinate! Thursday, 5 March 2009. Home to roast . I mean roost! Finally after a couple of days of false starts, the Mangalitsa piggies arrived this morning. They were delivered straight into their pen by Ashley, our supplier, after he'd managed to reverse his pig trailer up into the old hay barn. Eaving in and out of the large overgrown clumps of weeds. I'm sure they'll make light work of that lot in a very short space of time! We switched on the ne...
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In The Potting Shed: Piggy Summer Camp ...Bog Style!!!
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In The Potting Shed. A Place to Potter, Ponder and Procrastinate! Sunday, 10 May 2009. Piggy Summer Camp .Bog Style! The plan has been for a while that the girls would head down to the bog land in Charlie and Harry's care for the summer months and as the weather has now become really quite warm, that time has now come. Rnley-Whittingstall do something similar on River Cottage a few weeks back and was most impressed. Seriously, after eating a real handmade pizza like this, you would never touch a fast foo...
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In The Potting Shed: Clucking Good Eggs!!!
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In The Potting Shed. A Place to Potter, Ponder and Procrastinate! Friday, 12 June 2009. I sat at the kitchen table yesterday evening with a large glass of red wine and painted the wording black and red. I was very happy with the end result and hammered the stake of the sign in with a mallet the following morning. I dragged a table to the end of the driveway and busily went about making it look very country. Im sure it wont happen but just dont get mixed up with me! 2 July 2009 at 00:14. My sign is a simp...
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In The Potting Shed: June 2008
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In The Potting Shed. A Place to Potter, Ponder and Procrastinate! Friday, 13 June 2008. In the wake of Basil and a very apparent re-structuring of the hen pen, some important news fell by the way-side. Minnie and Dora are an inseparable pair and Minnie's temperament is so gentle. Knowing that attempting to keep two cockerels in such close proximity was out of the question (I've been told they'll fight to the death) I knew I was going to have to make a decision in the very near future. I know it sounds li...
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In The Potting Shed: July 2008
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In The Potting Shed. A Place to Potter, Ponder and Procrastinate! Friday, 11 July 2008. I picked peas for a good hour and a half and filled one side of the double sink in the kitchen. It felt like forever as I shelled them all afternoon and it really surprised me how many maggots had managed to force their wa. Y into the pods and set up home. A nice evening treat for the chickens, not just peas but little wriggly things too! After the shelling, came the blanching, where the peas were plunged into boiling.
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In The Potting Shed: The Teenagers
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In The Potting Shed. A Place to Potter, Ponder and Procrastinate! Sunday, 26 July 2009. After the very disappointing. Episode of the chicks in May of this. Year, I quietly decided to try my luck once more without reporting on my every move thinking it might be a bad omen. I am very pleased to say that I have succeeded. I have four beautiful chicks whom of which have now reached their teenage era. I have three Dorking's. One of which is a definitely. Chick, namely buffy. Neck feathers come through.