OUR BLOG HAS MOVED!

Hi Guys,

Our blog has moved and is now integrated with our website, so i'll no longer be posting here.

Go and check it out at www.westpeekfarm.co.uk

:)

Rain Please!

We're still lambing!

Only a few young ewes left to finish now though.

Some of the lambs need a helping hand to suck in the first few hours while the mothers learn what to do....

Spreading well rotted manure back onto the fields returns some nutrients to the soil and helps the grass grow.

The greenhouse is rammed with plants waiting to get potted up or planted out.

Chain harrowing....

Every year we inevitably get a certain amount of 'poached' ground at the entrances to the pony paddocks. So in the spring on a fine day we run the chain harrows over it to break it up and level it out. Then we scatter some grass seed, harrow again, and then give the ground a rest from any livestock and allow it to recover.

In the Veggie Plot...

The early peas are almost ready...

Four Varieties of Brussels Sprouts are in....

And the spuds are up.....

Now what?!

Our tomato house before the winds came....

And after.....

The frame has been completely ruined and now we have 60+

tomato plants with no home. We lashed it to 4 strong fencing

posts at each corner and it still wasn't strong enough.

My favorite pig this year...

She looks tasty doesn't she!

It's been a beautiful month.....

LAMBING TIME!

As ever, the first lambs of the year have brought complications! Ewes abandoning their lambs, and others mothering lambs that aren't theirs! But we're generally off to a sound start.

The sunrise photo i took the other morning, but it really doesn't do it justice.

It was absolutely beautiful.

I'm busy now preparing for this weekends sheep keeping course.

I'll post some more cute lamb pictures soon!

Scaly Leg Mite

Spraying the legs of one of the 'old english'
hens, at the first sign of scaly leg mite.

Feeding time

Feeding the sheep with haylage and protein nuts is a daily
job in the build up to lambing. When it's cold, dry and
sunny it's a lovely way to start the day.

This is what it's all about!

Some of last years cockerels are now in the freezer

Home grown potatoes,squash,cabbage, and chicken