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You will be pleased to hear that following the incident with the Fox in the night there are 4 new arrivals at Hoe Grange to keep our golden silky (now named Lucky after her fortunate escape) company - well I couldn't leave her all alone. They are all Warrens, a good reliable egg laying breed, and are settling in well, although as you can see from the photo Lucky is not entirely sure about the new recruits! Who's eating my dinner! The new free range hens are a year old and already laying eggs for our guests - why not book a holiday with us i...
A disaster at Hoe Grange - this morning I went as usual to let our free range chickens out only to find feathers everywhere. In horror I realised that I had forgotten to shut them up the previous evening - having just come back from holiday my routine went to pot and I simply some how forgot - as David will tell you I am usually paranoid about shutting them up last thing at night. the girls enjoying the great outdoors The hazard of a truly free range life is that Mr Fox is never far away and ever ready to take advantage of any such opportun...
Lambs first outing in the paddock Our cute and ever growing kade lambs ventured out into the large paddock for the first time today and enjoyed gamboling in the sunshine - so fast in fact that my photos are a little blurred! Shepherd Elliot looks on as they race around. Leaping lambs Felicity...
Life is certainly very hectic at the moment! Spring work at Hoe Grange Farm Inbetween all the preparations for the arrival of the new self catering log cabin David has been busy farming and trying to keep on top of the Spring work at Hoe Grange. It is vital to get the fields in shape at this time of year, including chain harrowing to rip out the dead grass and aerate the sward, allowing the younger grass to come through quicker. It also levels out molehills, flattens uneven ground where cattle have trodden up the mud and breaks up and distrib...
Our cute, cuddly lambs are now 6 weeks old and growing fast and Elliot is still bottle feeding them twice a day. Coco, Chanel, Tia and Maria love to gambol around the garden following him at top speed! They are extremely agile. Amazingly I managed to capture this picture of all four of them standing still. Cute lambs at Hoe Grange Free range freedom for hens at Hoe Grange! Not quite so cute are our 8 new hens - in fact far from cute - they have been rescued from a more intensive egg producing unit and are in quite a state. They are...







