OPEN DAYS NEXT WEEK!

I start this post unbelievably upset as that .....FOX has had another load of our chickens this morning...
She was obviously lying in wait and when the hens were out of their house she pounced and we found four left in the pen ready to collect later (one bantam in the house) and loads of feathers again so she had taken several during her
first visit.  By the way i say SHE as we think it's definitely a vixen and her cubs that are laying waste to everyone's hens round here at the moment (they are feeding their young)

Free range piglets!

helping Mum!

On a more positive note, we started feeding the piglets today - they haven't quite got the hang of it yet - rather prefer eating Sandy's food, but they ventured out of the pen gingerly and have definitely eaten some of it!  They really do look cute lying in the sunshine, and have grown So much over this last week

''My birthday present' proud dad!

Last Friday Mike, Ella and i drove up to Mildenhall in Suffolk to collect Mike's birthday present....a lurcher puppy!  He is gorgeous, called Rufus, and is so far being amazingly good - although he did wake us up at 5am in the morning to start with (it was just like having a baby all over again...NOT used to that!) and he was rather sick all the way back in the car!

We are flat out now, getting ready for our Open Days that start this Sunday with OPEN FARM SUNDAY, and continue with Open days next Monday, Wednesday and Thursday  Everyone worked their socks off today, cleaning, building, strimming, mowing, and generally tidying around the site - in between gazing at piglets playing!