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Tag: homelife
I have a habit of giving all our pets nicknames, there's many of them for each of our dogs. We've Nelly for 4 days and already I have:
Nells Bells Nelly Bean Nelly Furtado Man Eater (after the song) Nelly the Elephant
It's anyone's guess which will stick. Our other dogs, Tia and Sid, are t-bone and squid (short for Sqidley) respectively. 🤷🏼♂️
New Pets, Sick Pets, and Hemorrhaging Money
It's been a crazy (and expensive) couple months at home!
Our new addition to the family, Nelly, has arrived and she's causing havoc already. 🤣
The poor buzzard was still there when I was walking the dogs this morning, so clearly something was wrong. Luckily my wife was able to get hold of a local falconer who was able to catch him and hopefully nurse him back to health. 🦅
Taking the dogs for a walk with our oldest and we came across this beautiful buzzard just sat there. Wasn't bothered by us really. I just hope it doesn't have a bust wing or anything.
Yup. Goat-proofing the chicken door really worked a treat. FML. 🤦🏼♂️
Today was spent goat-proofing the automatic chicken door. We recently moved it to ground level and now the goats use it as a scratch post. 🐐
It's a beautiful morning here in North Wales. My wife has taken our youngest to his cricket match, and our oldest is upstairs playing with his Lego out of the heat.
Me? I'm sitting in the sunroom, listening to the goats and chickens, with a coffee and book.
Perfect Sunday morning.
A Rant About Modern Cars
I recently bought a new Peugeot and the experience of getting setup on their online platform has been painful to say the least.
I have just eaten a GIANT bowl of granola, fresh fruit, Greek yoghurt, and home grown honey (by one of our neighbours). I have zero regrets, but I may skip lunch today. 🤣
Guinea fowl keets are doing great too. All 5 are loving life with their foster mums.
We now have 3 chicks - two white and one black.
First two chicks!
Two of the eggs are starting to hatch and we can hear multiple chicks cheeping away. Exciting! 🐣
Our 2 hens have finished sitting on the Guinea fowl eggs - out of 10, we managed to hatch 5 of them.
The chicken eggs we have in the incubator won't be ready for another week or so. Excited to see how many of them we get.
You know what isn't fun? Living in a 200 year old stone house, with no insulation, during a heatwave.
There's collapsed animals (not literally) and fans all over the place. 🥵️
The fox continues to prowl around our chickens. This morning we caught it in the GARDEN a few feet from our favourite chicken. Luckily the magpies warned us and we were able to scare it away.
It's not nice keeping the little cluckers cooped up in this heat, but needs must unfortunately.
Some goats, just goating around, watching me mow the field.
Little chicks are starting to venture out from under mum. 🐥
