Tag: peahen
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Big Birds in Barns
The barn is heaving with birds at the moment, not only the big domestic birds- all the homeless roosters that are not allowed to live with the hens, the peahens and the two oldest guinea fowl on the planet, and Mr Flowers the peacock, here is dear old Pania – one of the original peafowl,…
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Yesterday I lost one of Poppy’s piglets. She looked a bit off on Friday evening, stopped eating on Saturday, did not respond to the usual treatments and died yesterday morning. I don’t know. I take these things hard. She had no symptoms at all. No scours. No vomiting. No cough. But something was happening inside her. There…
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Gorgeous and Gorging
Are they related? Gorging and Gorgeous. This mob(all these hungry piglets) gorge on their food until they are stuffed like deer heads on the wall and they are rather gorgeous as well. Maybe we gorge on their good looks. Geraldine, like the dogs, is never far from me. Waiting at the back door, or staring at…
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Have Feathers will Travel
Geraldine the hand raised peahen frequently sits in the bed of the truck and has to be evicted when it is time to drive over to the other barn. I have always wondered what she would do if I just drove off and left her there on the truck- how long she would stay whether she…
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Barn Beds
The kittens are dealing with the cold by lying about in my washing, playing in the fruit bowl, sneaking into the cupboards and their table manners are dreadful. Boo still loves them though. The barn was still yesterday. Still and quiet. Cold. The birds fluffed up and warm, peering about watching for any loose oats…
The Kitchen's Garden 