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A growing flock

A growing flock

Last week we moved the final two ducklings from this year’s hatches out to their permanent home in our field. Having reached that little milestone we thought it was a good time to look back and reflect a little on how we’ve done with our ducks this year.

Getting ready for spring

Getting ready for spring

The first day of March marks the official start of spring in the meteorological calendar but things have already started to get a little busier for us as we gear up in anticipation of longer days and warmer weather. After the long dark evenings of winter the lengthening days are

And then there were four...

It's been ten days since we started to incubate our Aylesbury duck eggs [https://www.limesendcottage.com/incubating-eggs/] so we thought we'd update you on how they're doing. After a week we candled the eggs for the first time and found that one of the six was unfortunately infertile and

Incubating eggs

Our first batch of Aylesbury hatching eggs arrived safe and sound yesterday morning after their long journey from Cornwall. It’s the first time we’ve ordered hatching eggs through the post so we were relieved that they arrived in one piece. We’d switched the incubator on in plenty