Smallholding Tips Ramblings

Polytunnel Vegetables

Lincolshire Buff Chicks 3 Weeks Old

Willy and Milly Our Pygmy Goat Twins

Sharon and I cleaned out all the birds and livestock on the Smallholding today. It is a long job but one that gives you a great satisfaction when finished, knowing that they all have nice clean quarters again.

The most fun job is cleaning out the 2 saddleback weaners, they are so inquisitive and so playful we usually have a great time with them, when I go in their hut to get the old straw out they inevitably follow to see whats going on which then leads to lots of scratching and they seem to have a great liking for chewing the laces on my boots, all in all they are just having fun and when the new straw bedding is put in they are sraight in there nosing it all up in the air and restructuring it to their liking. Pigs are just great and everyone who comes loves them. However I never loose track of why they are here.

The new Pygmy Goats Willy And Milly continue to cause havoc in the chicken coop and as yet I havn't devised a plan to keep them out but allow the chickens in, Im sure I'll come up with something.

Sharon did a lovely salad for tea with everything coming from the smallholding. New Potatoes from the polytunnel, Sharon had grown some in tubs and I was very surprised at the amount she got from a small tub also some italian rosso lettuce, beetroot, green peppers, cucumber,rocket, ferline tomato's and fresh boiled eggs.