Showing posts with label Smallholding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Smallholding. Show all posts

Wednesday, 20 June 2012

Pictures.......at last!

I know,I know it's been a whole week since I said I would put photos up of our week looking after a friends small-holding....life just took over and energy levels dipped out a bit so here we are now!!
Gorgeous old Farmyard

The pony and foal in one of their fields

These were just visiting!!

Daft ducks, followed each other everywhere!

Pinky and Blacky - they were like Laurel and Hardy...very amusing!!

The little one-eyed duckling being looked after by one of the Silkie hens

The mad geese on the rampage..

The evil ram- he had serious issues!!
It was stressful at times and we had a huge learning curve to go through but it was great and we loved it!!

Sunday, 10 June 2012

Small-holding week

Well, our small-holding dream has come true......well, only for one week but it's a start. Some friends of ours have gone off on holiday (first in a looong time) and left us in charge of their lovely house and small-holding. It's been an interesting  learning curve with an escaping rabbit and guinea-pig, a ram with serious issues and chickens who didn't seem to want to go to bed! Fortunately the rabbit and guinea-pigs were thankfully caught again after a stressful half-hour and we think we've found a way around the evil ram's field to get to the lambs we need to feed! Mr Ram is not in my good books after charging us and scaring the living daylights out of B and me. He is just greedy and wants the lambs food but he needs counselling!! So tomorrow I will wave the bucket at him while I bypass his field and get the lambs fed another way!!

I'll get some pictures up tomorrow .....hope the weather holds! ...(edit: pictures may be a few days!!)

Tuesday, 17 April 2012

Lambs...

We had a lovely afternoon yesterday up at a friends smallholding, just having a nosey about, playing and chatting. The highlight of the afternoon for the kids was feeding some lambs which have either been orphaned or taken off their mothers to feed.
 
Happy Face!
After an encounter with a stroppy goose they may not make it to our wishlist!!