Chickens have arrived

Chickens have arrived

Get chickens they said, it’ll be easy they said…… One of my long term projects is trying to be more self sustainable. I can see there is a lot of wastage going on with shopping etc and I want to try and do something to combat that. To that end we got...
More goats!

More goats!

We’re somewhat experts now in the world of birthing goats it seems! With the 2 born in Dec and now 3 born in a matter of weeks of each other we think we have this nailed (except when one got stuck and we had to get the vet out!)     We’re now up...
Goats have arrived!

Goats have arrived!

They finally arrived! After almost 3 weeks late (we got the dates wrong it seems) they finally arrived on Saturday morning! I near shit myself when I walked to the barn and the first one (mostly black-coloured male) was already born. The white female was on its way so...
Pregnant goat you say?

Pregnant goat you say?

We’ve now added another goat to the herd called ‘Rosie’ (after my mother-in-law :). We initially went looking for a buck for the females (Brenda and Wilma) that we already had but when we met her we had to take her home with us! She’s due with...