Milkweed & Teasel

Saturday, 25 June 2016

Vermin Patrol Part 2: Ferrets

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If you don't like the idea of traps, how about using a ferret instead? This is the first time I've tried ferreting. The con...
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Monday, 13 June 2016

Chick-Chick-Chicks

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We stop collecting eggs from our pheasant hens this week – a welcome milestone in the keeper’s year as it frees up 2-3 hours every evening!...
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Monday, 23 May 2016

The Vermin Paradox

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There are still more posts to come describing different methods of controlling vermin. This is a brief interlude to demonstrate the irration...
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Thursday, 19 May 2016

Vermin Patrol Part1: Snares and Traps

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Snares and fenn traps hanging on the side of our barn Mike and I are doing a skills swap. Last year our neighbour Bill taught me a bett...
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Wednesday, 18 May 2016

It's why they're called "Springer" Spaniels

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This is Gertie, now seven months old. We're going to our trainer Vic tomorrow for her first real training class.
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Thursday, 12 May 2016

Who needs a Jungle Gym when you have a Jungle Jen?

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Wednesday, 27 April 2016

Separating the Men from the Girls

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The last lamb was born on Sunday, a single ewe lamb to Ewe 00025, with no intervention, just more dancing from the shepherdess. That's t...
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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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