Well its been far to long!!! Ive been so busy being ill...We've all had the nova virus.. nearly 3 weeks of sick and yuk!!! I lost a stone and a half, Lily has vowed never to be sick again, she been so ill, on the up side its cured her travel sicknes...lol.. cant be bad. So we really have had nothing to report, and on top of that we've had the worlds worst cold. Lets see what been happening???
My new Incubator.
I've been struggling all last year with bad hatches maybe 1 or 2 out of 30 odd eggs I had a useless polystiriene incubator, so I thought, but after binning it found out it was my thermometer that was to blame..Typical.
So I woke up to ebay, its amaizimg shopping on the net, I must be the last person to discover the benefits.. I even tried to do my food shop on line but we are too far out of the way for them..Even Tescos wouldnt touch us...
Anyhow I started looking at incubators and dreaming about these fully computorised USB models all you do is choose the picyure of what your hatching set go and it does everything, turning, humidity, temp ,counts down to hatch day and then changes its setting for the hatching , ... I thouht well dream on.. then I noticed some on ebay going quite cheap, but then got out bid so I took a look at Preloved that is a great site, found one still boxed as new the latest model for £220 so Paypal my new best friend did its job and here it is... perfect,
I have bought new thermometer combi hygrometer and candler so I have the right set up....and eggs on the net, Rhode Island reds, Wyondottes, Marrans and Speckled Sussex I think... anyhow they should all arrive soon and we will see what happens...
So I woke up to ebay, its amaizimg shopping on the net, I must be the last person to discover the benefits.. I even tried to do my food shop on line but we are too far out of the way for them..Even Tescos wouldnt touch us...
Anyhow I started looking at incubators and dreaming about these fully computorised USB models all you do is choose the picyure of what your hatching set go and it does everything, turning, humidity, temp ,counts down to hatch day and then changes its setting for the hatching , ... I thouht well dream on.. then I noticed some on ebay going quite cheap, but then got out bid so I took a look at Preloved that is a great site, found one still boxed as new the latest model for £220 so Paypal my new best friend did its job and here it is... perfect,
I have bought new thermometer combi hygrometer and candler so I have the right set up....and eggs on the net, Rhode Island reds, Wyondottes, Marrans and Speckled Sussex I think... anyhow they should all arrive soon and we will see what happens...
Ive also found this shop on the net...
P&T Poultry Contact Information :-
For Credit Card Payments contact Gillian on 0844 357 3926
For product information contact Trevor on 0844 884 3278
e-mail: gillian@pandtpoultry.co.uk
They are very knowlegable and provdide a fast excellent service. I have been shopping with them a little bit!! When I upgrade to a bigger version of this model they will be the ones I go to..Look them up on ebay...
Now What else...
Mini mini pigs.....
A lovely lady responded to my livestock always wanted add on Preloved, she brought me 3 Pedigree Kune Kune's now I thought our mini pig was small but they make her look huge!!!
1 Sow and 2 Boars, they had grown too big I think she said and were destroying her hay padocks, also the brothers were getting too friendly with there sister.. Who we now believe is pregnant... oops. I have never seen such cute gorgeous pigs I cant stop watching them. Will ad pic soon. They were very badly affected by the move, sulking and shocked, I have never seen pig shock before they just sat in the mud and refused to move for a few hours, by morning they were a bit better but 3 days on they still not too happy, they had a couple of cracks of the electric fence which did not help, as soon as they are settled and happier we will put them on fresh ground out of our training pen..
Electric fence training pen...
Electric fences are great for pigs that know about them but any young pig who's never seen one before will hit the wire, shoot forwards screaming and there out, the ensuing chase is not good for man nor beast, so I invented our training pen...It consists of several unmovable metal post which then have 1inch square gauge mesh of about 4 foot tall wire on and pulled tight all the way around, then put a few lines of electric fence wire all around on the inside about 4 inches away from the back up solid fence .. so they catch the wire shoot forward keep getting the shock and have to reverse, they onlty hit it a couple of times and learn to respect both wire and solid fences, its never failed. Some of my old timers learnt that well that they wont even cross where the wire was when you take it down I have to walk back wards and forwards to show them its ok..honest..
The Orchard
The council in ther infinate wisdom has forced us to plant huge amounts of trees on our tiny piece of land... every bit counts every blade of grass, but no we need to plant every where...so we thought we would plant edible trees so as to make the most of it all, so we prepared with our hand rotivator and shovel...The digger of course i'm not stupid!! a traingle bed and planted Stella cherry, Conferance Pears, Brayburn Apple, transplanted huge Hazel nut trees, added a pampus grass and "hey presto" instant orchard.. we will add more but the rain has hit .. which is exactly what they need but I'm not working in it, on our land your boots just get heavier and heavier...
Thats it for today I have decided to bake all day and hide from the weather, and maybe spend on ebay a bit more...
