summer Summer 2017 As you may have guessed from our lack of posts, it's been a busy summer on the smallholding. Now that the days are getting a little cooler, and the nights a little longer, it feels like a good time to update you on some of the highlights since
chickens A busy start to the year You'll have to excuse the lack of posts so far this year. We welcomed our second child (a healthy little boy) into the world at the end of January so have been a little busier than usual. Whilst you could mistake a lack of posts for a lack
marans Marans chickens Regular readers will know that we hatched out three Cuckoo Marans chicks [https://www.limesendcottage.com/marans-chicks/] towards the end of last month. Being slightly disappointed with only getting three chicks from a dozen eggs (and realising that we had two cockerels and one hen) we decided to look around
marans Marans chicks The weekend after our last post [https://www.limesendcottage.com/getting-ready-for-spring/] we had four little Cuckoo Marans chicks hatch out in our incubator. One of them was sadly a little too weak and didn't make it through the first 48 hours but the remaining three all appear to
chickens A new arrival Towards the end of January we came across a bantam cockerel wandering around the entrance to one of our local woods. It was getting dark and we found the headless remains of another chicken nearby (presumably the result of a fox attack) so we decided to take the cockerel back
chickens Chicken timelapse Since getting our chickens at the beginning of August we’ve often wondered what they get up to when we’re not around. To find out the answer to this I rigged up a time-lapse at the weekend using my phone and an Android app called Framelapse Pro [https://play.
