Our New Life in the Country: New Babies on the Farm

Saturday, 17 August 2013

New Babies on the Farm

No it's not this talented little fellow, but we do have a new Black Pekin Bantam mum with her six little Silkie 10 day old chicks.

She's living in a cat carrying basket overnight in the utility room, all cosy and secure while we get the broody cage out of storage and then she will take up residence in Chicken World tomorrow when we move it along the paddock and onto fresh grass. We didn't want her to be even more stressed after her scary day at the Smallholders Sale with her babies hiding under her wings with too many moves.

She looks a lot like this ....

... and her babies are like this, all different colours and so tiny.

(These two pictures from Google Images.)

We have also bought six more Hyline hens as we needed some more egg layers to keep up with demand from our regular customers.

The sad thing is we have now sold our Chinese Grey Geese, so Harry, Larry and Mo have left the farm. At first we were really worried about what sort of home they would go to, but they were bought by a couple who also bought six Chinese Grey goslings so they are now part of a larger goose family. This will suit our girls down to the ground they were desperate for babies of their own, now they are adoptive mummies of some lovely young geese.

We have also sold one of our lovely henhouses, and it went for a brilliant price so we were extremely pleased with the outcome of that, more money in the bank to buy a different style of henhouse for the new place.

All in all a very successful day at the Smallholders Sale.

Sue xx

5 comments:

never too old17 August 2013 at 19:32
how lovely,im so envious.
How do you move them all when you go to Wales?
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Susan at Frugaldom17 August 2013 at 20:06
Sooooo cute! I missed out on hatching any chicks this year because of the renovations and garden work going on, but my Silkie and Pekin hens are always going broody. Maybe next year. :) Good luck rearing them, hope you get plenty of girls and not too many boys.
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CJ17 August 2013 at 21:58
How exciting, it is all change. Looking forward to seeing pictures of your new hen and chickies. I'm very envious! One day, one day...
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The Squirrel Family18 August 2013 at 10:56
OOh look forward to seeing them in their new home soon, we too have added a few more hens to our flock some black rock and Lincolnshire buff crosses all the older hens are either moulting or broody and all my chicks are not quite at POL
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Anonymous18 August 2013 at 18:16
The chicks are so adorable! Glad to hear you had such a good time at the Smallholders Sale :)
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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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