Milkweed & Teasel

Friday, 31 July 2015

Greener Grass

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It's moving day for the ewes, who have been sharing Kitty's paddock. The sheep eat the excess grass in her paddock, which helps Kitt...
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Friday, 24 July 2015

Summer Work

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It's been a busy summer, but a good one overall. Here's a quick run down so far: Mike and Ian put about 60,000 eggs through the in...
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Sunday, 24 May 2015

Easy like a Sunday Morning

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The bottle fed lambs do not understand the concept of a Sunday morning lie-in. At daylight they trash any kennels left open, including their...
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Thursday, 30 April 2015

This Year's Crop of Bedding Plants...

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is underneath this year's crop of lambs - Eh, it makes a change from the chickens scratching up the flower beds..
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Friday, 17 April 2015

A Good News-Bad News Kind of Week

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Ewe 2841 lambed healthy, if smallish, triplets with only a little assistance on the last one. But, with no one to hold her head for me, the ...
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Monday, 13 April 2015

Turkeys are Tasty, but....

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...they are not great at Hide & Seek.
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Saturday, 11 April 2015

The End is Nigh

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In the past 36 hours I think the ewes have lambed every few hours without much break in between. It's all I can do to process each deliv...
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Jennifer Montero
Two decades ago I left New England for olde England with nothing but my books and degrees in anthropology and art history. After some years toiling in various museums and historic sites, I decided to pursue my passion for the outdoors and enrolled in agriculture college. While working as head gardener on an estate in Dorset, I met my husband, a gamekeeper. His is one of those archaic jobs that only appear in Hardy novels and episodes of Downton Abbey. We now live and work together on a private estate raising game birds. Life in the country is not all bunting and cream teas—more blisters and cold rains. But with a dog leash in one hand and my Debretts Guide to British Etiquette in the other, I am conquering the British countryside, training dogs, caring for pheasant chicks, battling predators, and cooking. LOTS of cooking. In my spare time I tend a flock of sheep, and in winter I butcher and sell local game and wild food. It's hard work, but it's never dull. So sit, read, and laugh along. And be glad that you work in a temperature-controlled building like a normal person
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