aylesbury 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.
incubation 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
ducks And then there were four... It's been ten days since we started to incubate our Aylesbury duck 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 so had to be removed
ducks 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
