Last week we made the decision to take the two 'barren' ewes to sell at market - so on Thursday, we met the students at market (well not quite all of the Thursday students...some got lost in Driffield village!) and saw our ewes make £65 each - not bad for last week, as the average was £55.00 - it was a quiet week for all livestock apparently
We also put 24 quail eggs into our incubator - we have been collecting them up, hoping to increase our quail production for this year. They will hopefully hatch around 17 March.
Dan, one of our new volunteers, helped by the students, has been busy putting up the new pig ark, that we have been given funding for. It's going into a 'nursery', where we really hope Sandy will go at the beginning of May - ready for farrowing....! It looks very majestic sat on it's concrete plinth in the field!
We also got our wonderful little trailer back; completely over hauled by 'Firefly' Phil, from Cerney House (just down the road) It looks amazing, and will be really useful her for stock moving around the farm.
Funniest thing happened today (Monday) we discovered that one of the Marrans we hatched last year, is a cockerel - we were convinced we had two hens, but .....he is definitely a cockerel, and looking far more majestic than last week - he's not crowing yet, but doing everything else!
We had a busy day with the students today - they all worked really well as a team, mucking out and getting the stables ready for the horses; mucking out the ewe pens (which we do twice a week at the moment) and looking after two visitors this afternoon.
We have a new sign up again at the Care Farm - thanks to Cotswold Signs, and one on the drive to direct people up past the yard to our site!
Photos to follow - i can't remember how to download them off my phone again.....sorry!
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