I haven’t successfully hatched eggs since 2016. I did set the incubator up last year and put eggs in but it was in the farm workshop and it got accidentally knocked off the table. The eggs were ruined and my incubator broken and, with a new baby, I just couldn’t be bothered looking into it…
When you live on a farm and can’t take holidays, you become very popular. Especially with people at your children’s school. You see, finding your nearest farmer’s wife who has a problem with saying no means everyone’s dog, cat or hamster can be sent for a fortnight’s holiday at the farm and have just as…
Emma Watkin lives on a 100 acre farm with her husband in Suffolk. She met her husband Tobias through a dating website as neither of them were into going out clubbing. While Emma did not grow up on a farm herself, both of her grandparents are from a farming family so they were very pleased…
Another year on the farm and this year has seen some big changes on the animal front. As I read last year’s animal inventory, it surprised me just how much our animal numbers have changed over the year. https://farmerswifeandmummy.com/our-animal-inventory-2016/ Rocher and the Ginger Tom still live in the little out house next to the house….
Most farming families love anything to do with farming. Especially novelty items that directly relate to whichever type of farming they do. If I ever see a sheep ornament for the Christmas tree, I snap it up and this year, I have decided to take the hard work out of it for you and show…
What do you do if you really want an item of clothing but can’t find anything you like? Well, if you’re Jenna Thompson, you design a whole range of your own and start selling them. Last year, Jenna, an illustrator and copywriter from Bristol, despaired at the lack of Christmas jumpers with original slogans and…
Hens are amazing and funny creatures and, in my five years of keeping them, they have provided me with no end of amusement and entertainment. I have decided to write a bit of a guide to tell everyone about some things, you may not realise about our little, feathered friends. A chick takes about 21…
It seems I can’t just go and get a new animal. Something always happens. I should know better by now. Free to a good home or too good to be true, never ends well with me. I love Peking chickens. They are so small and fluffy but adults can be expensive to buy and start…
Ever since I got our very first two hens (Daphne and Pearl), way back in 2012, I have loved everything chicken. Over the last five years, I have accumulated a lot of chicken things. Plates, cups, cushions, doorstops. If there is a choice of anything with chickens on it, I choose it. I even get…
Just before Christmas, there was a tiny news report on the television reporting an outbreak of avian flu. If you blinked, you missed it. Unfortunately for poultry across the UK, the result was very misleading advice from Defra about what poetry keepers should do. Their chief vet imposed a restriction on birds and suggested keepers…
