Our New Life in the Country: Chickens and Sheep

Wednesday, 27 July 2016

Chickens and Sheep

" Look I think Mum's got some food."

"Oooh is the grass nice ....

... I think I'll try some."

" Come over here everyone .... this is lovely."

This post is brought to you by sheep and chickens ..... and ooops did you notice in the first photo that I've left my bucket on the far gate post ... I'll just go and retrieve it, have a nice day :-)

Sue xx

3 comments:

SusanM27 July 2016 at 08:28
I looked after someone's chickens recently and they are such a study! The cockerel is a right old bossy boots and noisily rounds up the ladies to put them to bed and shows them where to eat! I could watch them for hours. Love your photos x
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Simon Douglas Thompson27 July 2016 at 17:11
Needed sharp eyes to spot that bucket! Mother and I were laughing at how every news organisation tried to make sure they had shots of Dolly's cloned sisters when they were walking in a line, or all stood with their heads looking the same way
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myshabbychicvintagefrugallife28 July 2016 at 09:22
Wish i could keep some chickens but i dont think the neighbours would be very happy lol xxx
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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax into a world of dogs, cats, chickens, polytunnels and veggies with the occasional grass munching sheep thrown in for good measure.

Sue xx

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