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Showing posts with label Cuckoo Marans. Show all posts

A quick catch up.. broody hens and springtime in the woods

 Here's my gang of broody Cuckoo Marans hens and the tiny wee lavender bantam Heidi. It's all very serious but I haven't got enough eggs for them to sit on yet so I'm having to chuck them out of their nests a few times a day... kindly of course.


Here is an angry broody...

Just had to share this close up of the really titchy tiny Heidi...

That's all I've got to say right now. Life's crazier at the moment than I've ever experienced in my ENTIRE life. Up and down and chaotic but headed in the right direction! Oh, I nearly forgot.. here's a few photo's of Spring in the woods :)

For the past two yrs there's been only one Wood Anemone growing under some of our oldest Ash hedge trees. This year there was FOUR flowering stems!

Badger badger badger! [please note: this isn't at Stock Wood...]

Moschatel... one of my all time favourite woodland flowers.



hen xx

Meet the ducks & chickens & goats & sheep!

Got no time to write very much so I just thought I'd share some photo's!

Indian runner duck- BATHTIME!

Small-1 the black Indian Runner duck has gone all broody and is sitting on 10 eggs. I took a sneaky picture of her nest when she wasn't looking! 

This is the gorgeous Heidi. She is sitting on 3 very dark brown eggs from my Cuckoo Marans. They only have a week to go! I'm very excited about getting lots and lots of eggs in the incubators in the next week too! 

Storm and Lightening. My shadows.. I can't go anywhere without them following me (whether there's a fence/giant bank/gate or hedge in the way!)

I watched these two like this for AGES the other day. Sleepily chewing the cud cheek by cheek. So, so sweet! 

Hebridean Ewe.. Lordy she's impressive.

These two Shetlands (well the one on the right is a Shetland/Hebridean cross) right freak me out.. "Look into my eyes.. bring us nuts bring us nuts"


Finnhe the Katmoget Shetland ewe. She's very pretty.


Finnhe puckering up.. she might be pretty but she's NOT my type!

Jingo.. my pride and joy! Shetland ram (fawn)

Hope you enjoyed meeting a few of the animals :)

hen xx

A few hours chilling with the sheep n poultry gang...

Willow and Small
Willow and Small have a few issues.. Willow delights in winding Small up and Small delights in chasing Willow. Small will zone in on Willow from the other side of the field, then sneak up on her while she sleeps, then let out a massive honk alarm in her ear! Suffice to say they don't get to hang out much together... I fear for their lives! Well.. I fear for Small's life anyway!


Little Blue and the heavily pregnant HebXsuffolks
At the moment I'm spending a lot of time just hanging out with the sheep. They're due to give birth any week now and so I'm keeping a beedy eye on them. This is my first ever lambing. I'm nervous but confident I've practiced enough. We're finishing their field shelter today and I'm going to set up a field office in their field, so I can continue to work on the Save Our Woods campaign but stay alert to any attacks by ravens/foxes/badgers.. some might say its not necessary but as it's my first time I think I'm going to spend as much time as I can with them!



Cockeral. Cuckoo Marans.
You might remember Cockeral. I got him and a couple of Cuckoo Marans hens a few months ago. Well, he's matured into a real beauty. I love the way he herds the hens and settles any disputes! He's very good at his job but mostly the ex-batts ignore him when he's trying to make them move somewhere they don't want to go! The hens lay the most beautiful eggs ever. Dark brown shells and deep orange giant yolks.. droOOol!



Cockerals holy bum.

My beautiful poultry gang


Hope you're enjoying this beautiful Spring weather!



hen xx

Photo Blog of a Week on the Farm

Please click on the photographs to enlarge them, as making them small has made them a wee bit fuzzy.

Willow rounding up the foraging ex-battery hens.

Mrs Cluck Norris overseeing my foraging efforts.

Chantrelles

Penny Bun

Field Mushroom

Non-edible but astonishingly coloured wax cap.

Natures' bouquet beats any florist I've seen.

Sweet baby slug lovin.

Ancient & magical.

A close up of the most beautiful tree in the world.
Draped in jade lichen, adorned with precious blue sloes.

Checking the Hebridean sheep in the morning.


Small gets her own back on Willow!

New arrivals! Cuckoo Marans. The two hens are in the back &
in the front we have the cockerel. Only 20wks old (give or take!) 


The purple heather on the moor catches the sunset.


No words today. Hope the pictures explain what I'm trying to say.


Warmest hugs,
hen xx
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