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Coop Chaos as #Flockdown Continues

January 14, 2022 by farmerswifeandmummy Leave a Comment

So we are now into the seventh week of flockdown since Defra announced that it is a legal requirement for all bird keepers across the UK (whether they have pet birds, commercial flocks or just a few birds in a backyard flock) to keep their birds indoors and follow strict biosecurity measures to limit the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chicken Keeping, Farming Tagged: avian flu, chicken coop, chickens, farming, flockdown

Avian Flu-5 Ways to Keep Your Hens Happy in Flockdown

November 29, 2021 by farmerswifeandmummy 1 Comment

Housing measures for poultry come into force across the UK at 00:01 Monday 29 November 2021. Avian flu is back again. While it causes no threat to humans, it can rip through flocks of wild bird who in turn can pass it on to domestic fowl. This means whether you are keeper of two ducks … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chicken Keeping, Farming Tagged: avian flu, chickens, flockdown, lockdown, poultry

Egg Maths

October 18, 2021 by farmerswifeandmummy 1 Comment

From past posts, I imagine you are all au fait with the likes of chicken maths and then chick maths. This my friends is a totally different story all together. This is egg maths. It all stared with red mite which are pesky little critters who feast off the skin of hens. It ended up … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chicken Keeping, Farming Tagged: chicken maths, chickens, eggs, farming, poultry

Five Things to Consider when Expanding Your Farm

July 22, 2021 by farmerswifeandmummy Leave a Comment

Say you’ve been homesteading, and you have gone from backyard chickens to goats or other small livestock.  You have decided you like this farming thing.  Now you want to take the next step and start to grow food that you can sell at a farm stand or market as a side gig or maybe even … [Read more…]

Posted in: Farming Tagged: business, chickens, family farm, farm diversification, farming

Ideas For Using Eggs

April 29, 2021 by farmerswifeandmummy Leave a Comment

Spring time is lovely with the lighter nights and warmer days. If you keep chickens, you will know that these factors make for a very full egg basket. We sometimes get 14 a day and, with my menagerie of chicks growing fast, that number is set to multiply quite soon. What can you do with … [Read more…]

Posted in: Recipes Tagged: chickens, egg recipes, eggs, farmhouse kitchen, hens

Chick Maths

March 22, 2021 by farmerswifeandmummy Leave a Comment

When I wrote the post Socially Distanced Animal Buying At The Farm last month, I totally intended to go and pick up the two rabbits we had reserved and nothing else. The people had told me that they had an incubator full of eggs but at that point, even though I had a little chuckle … [Read more…]

Posted in: Farming Tagged: chicken maths, chickens, chicks, farmer's wife, poultry

Farm Life, June 2020

June 24, 2020 by farmerswifeandmummy Leave a Comment

Wow what a month on the farm. If you remember in the May Farm Life, I said we had finished lambing and I was very pleased with my one Ryeland lamb. Well, nature has a habit of surprising you and imagine how surprised I was when the farmer beckoned me to the front field one … [Read more…]

Posted in: Farming Tagged: chickens, Covid 19, farm life, Sheep shearing, turkeys

Hens Are For Life Not Just For Lockdown

June 1, 2020 by farmerswifeandmummy Leave a Comment

Food insecurity, a shortage of eggs, hens being also in short supply and, the ones that you manage to get are only available at massive inflated prices. These are thing that have all happened since lockdown from Covid-19 in the UK and I admit, I am worried for the welfare of some hens. The amount … [Read more…]

Posted in: Farming Tagged: chicken keeping, chickens, Covid 19, food security, hens

Siblings, May 2020

May 15, 2020 by farmerswifeandmummy Leave a Comment

Thinking over the last month, I think there is one phrase which keeps coming to my mind and that is thick as thieves. My three have really enjoyed spending time together. I know they have no choice but it still makes me all warm inside that they actually like each other. Obviously there are arguments … [Read more…]

Posted in: Lifestyle Tagged: chickens, Covid 19, farm life, Puppy, Siblings

Farm Life, March 2020

March 21, 2020 by farmerswifeandmummy Leave a Comment

I seem to have taken hundreds of photos of hens this month. I have a few fancy ones and their hilarious bouffants amuse me every time I see them. Photographing them though seems to be harder than it looks and I was happy with one photo until I went back and I had chopped the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Farming Tagged: chickens, farm life, farming, lambing, sheep
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