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 of activity
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 Back to 'Plan A' Looking back over our blog posts from the last month you’d be forgiven for thinking that we’ve become a bit obsessed with Aylesbury ducks. After hatching out two ducklings from our first batch of eggs we’ve been on the lookout for some more to join them – without
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 EggCam is live! We're hatching out our first batch of Aylesbury ducklings and have set up a webcam so you can see them hatch. If you’d like to see how they’re getting on then simply visit the webcam page by clicking on the link in the navigation menu at the top
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
