Our New Life in the Country: Caldwell Has Found His Doodle!!

Monday, 28 June 2010

Caldwell Has Found His Doodle!!

Caldwell with Nellie, the New Hampshire Red.

Yes, at last Caldwell, the little Lavender Pekin Bantam cockerel has found his 'Doodle'. Since he was twelve weeks old he has been 'Cock a Do-ing', but last week for the first time he 'Cock a Doodle Do-od'.

# Well worth waiting for, I love the little sound he makes, I love

that he fluffs up his feathers and jumps on the chair to do it, and the fact that he does it bang on 6.45am is a bonus, although with his volume, earlier wouldn't matter! #

Caldwell's ladies (from left to right) - Isabel, Little Lucy, Alice and Prudence. We feel like a 'proper' farm with our very own cockerel crowing every morning, funny how the littlest thing can add so much pleasure! Sue xx

7 comments:

BadPenny29 June 2010 at 08:24
now I'm singing " Cock a Doodle Doo -The maid has lost her shoe ..." etc etc
Bless him.
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Pipany29 June 2010 at 10:31
Glad he has found his doodle Sue and I love your cowavan in the last post! x
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ted and bunny29 June 2010 at 13:55
Hi- not sure how I found your blog but so pleased I have- it's great!

We have a doodle-doing chicken (DEF not a cockerel) so we have the best of both worlds- early morning alarm call with eggs ready for breakfast!
xx
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Anonymous29 June 2010 at 14:31
Good old Caldwell - our cockerel manages a cock a doodle do ... but then trails off with a 'oh, what's the point...' type sound. Makes me smile every time.
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fromsophiesview30 June 2010 at 01:09
So...there are other types of Doodles out there...I've been enlightened...yeah ALL Doodles!
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Jim30 June 2010 at 02:40
So glad Caldwell found his 'doodle'....lucky ladies.
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Charlotte30 June 2010 at 14:57
Yay... go Caldwell!!!
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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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