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Christmas turkeys 2015

Happy New Year everyone! With the festive period already feeling like a distant memory we thought we'd look back at our second year of rearing turkeys to remember what we got right and think about where we can improve in 2016. Sticking to the basics We’ve had some superb

Useful turkey links

When we were thinking about rearing turkeys for the first time last year we did a lot of Googling to find out what other people had done and pick up some tips. As tomorrow will be a year to the day since our first group of turkeys were delivered we

New arrivals

One of our yearly milestones came and went last Tuesday as a dozen turkey poults were delivered and moved into the shed in our field. This is the second year that we’ll be rearing our own Christmas dinner and it’s nice to have turkey chicks on the smallholding

Christmas turkey orders

We’re now taking orders for Christmas 2015 turkeys! If you would like a delicious free range Norfolk Black turkey from us this year then please contact us through the site [https://www.limesendcottage.com/contact] or in person to reserve your bird. June may seem like a strange time

Turkey run

Getting ready for work this morning there was a real feeling that Autumn was in the air. Since the start of the month the days seem to have got noticeably shorter and our alarm is now going off whilst it’s still dark outside. By shifting our morning routine around

Home improvements

Having lived with our new garden poultry shed for a little more than a week we’ve started to think about ways to make it more suitable for housing animals instead of garden tools. Over the weekend we put a couple of these thoughts into practice in the hope that