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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

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, January 2020

January 21, 2020 by farmerswifeandmummy 1 Comment

**Contains an image of a fox ravaged duck It’s been a funny old month on the farm. Christmas has been and gone and in terms of farm life, everything carried on as usual. Having the children off school meant any animal feeding had help took three times longer but they do enjoy collecting the eggs, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Farming Tagged: chickens, ducks, farming, fox, poultry

Coop Chaos at the Farm

October 17, 2019 by farmerswifeandmummy Leave a Comment

I’ve been meaning to write this post for ages but things got in the way. Over the summer, there were big changes in the chicken shed. We had an old coop which has been used for many things over the years including chickens. The chicks I had purchased were fully grown but then the battery … [Read more…]

Posted in: Farming Tagged: chickens, eggs, farm life, hens, poultry

Farm Life June 2019

June 21, 2019 by farmerswifeandmummy Leave a Comment

We started off the last farm month with promising weather and a first cut of haylage in one field. Considering that this time last year, all hay was safely in the shed, we had high hopes for a repeat. Alas the weather had other ideas and a very wet June has ensued. There have been … [Read more…]

Posted in: Farming Tagged: farm life, field work, poultry, Sheep shearing, vegetable patch

Farm Life April 2019

April 17, 2019 by farmerswifeandmummy 1 Comment

In the last month, lambing has just about exploded. We have pet lambs coming out of our ears and the lambing shed is actually starting to look a bit quieter which is a relief for us all. All in all, it has gone well. You have to be pragmatic about it sometimes. Remember my post … [Read more…]

Posted in: Farming Tagged: chickens, farm life, farming family, lambing, poultry

10 Facts about Turkeys

December 5, 2018 by farmerswifeandmummy 1 Comment

We are a nation of turkey lovers and nothing says Christmas more than the smell of turkey filling the house on Christmas Day. As one of our most seasonal foods, it seems while we may know quite a bit about cooking the bird (or visiting Mr Google several times between picking up the turkey and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Farming Tagged: Buy British, Christmas, farming, poultry, turkeys

A Guide to Keeping Chickens Part 2- What You Will Need

May 21, 2018 by farmerswifeandmummy Leave a Comment

I hope you enjoyed the first post in my chicken keeping series last week. This one is the next (and last) preparation post before the fun bit-choosing which hens you want. Before that though, you have decided you want to keep a few hens and you have chosen the coop. What do they eat? What … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chicken Keeping, Farming Tagged: chicken keeping, chickens, farming, hens, poultry

A Guide to Keeping Chickens Part 1-Plans and Housing

May 14, 2018 by farmerswifeandmummy 2 Comments

I have kept chickens for as long as I have lived at the farm. I started with two (Daphne and Pearl) and I certainly caught the chicken bug. Things haven’t always gone to plan. I’ve made mistakes and, on the whole, learnt from them. Chickens are a great pet to keep. You don’t actually need … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chicken Keeping, Farming Tagged: A Guide to Keeping Chickens, chicken coop, chickens, farming, poultry
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