All Kidded Out
It’s been a busy few week with the latest round of kidding getting underway. We are all done now having added 21 healthy kids to our...
The Choice is Yours
Even before the first goats arrived two years ago, we had got a couple of pigs for our personal freezer. We were so delighted by the...
Post-Script
As a wrap up to this batch of updates, I would just like to share the following. On a Saturday evening our lovely vet called in to look...
Post 6 - The Church 'Darwin Awards'
If you haven’t heard of the Darwin Awards, do Google it (other search engines available) – the stupidity of humans never fails to amaze,...
Post 5 - The Goats Part Deux
So we knew ‘we’ were expecting 23 kids sometime between the end of January and March, but aside from Tiggy and Gloria who were attended...
Post 4 - The Goats : Part 1
What were we thinking? We didn’t have a scooby do about goats. The nearest I’d ever got to a goat was mucking out a pen for pocket money...
Post 3 - The First 6 Months
I’d liken this time to the ‘honeymoon period’ – endless possibilities, we had some money in the bank and, until we purchased our first...
Post 2 - The Plan
Disclaimer – we don’t really advocate our somewhat cavalier approach, but given our particular situation it was right for us! The...
The Story So Far
The following 6 blog posts have been taken from my contribution to a Facebook group 'Celebrating Smallholding UK'. For the benefit of...
Do Not Adjust Your Set!
A quick post to welcome two new arrivals to the Fronrhydd herd, Leaf (no horns) and Rosie The two new ladies are most definitely not Boer...