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Chicks Chicks Chicks!

Posted on May 3, 2014 by Bidders

I keep hens because they lay lovely eggs. I love that I have beautiful yellow yolked eggs whenever I want them, I never need to worry about the condition of the hens producing them, because I can look out the … Continue reading →

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Quail chicks!

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Bidders

When I told people I’d bought 12 quail eggs off ebay to hatch they laughed. As I signed for the little (heavily wrapped) package the postman actually told me it would never work. To an extent I could understand them … Continue reading →

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The arrival of Quail

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Bidders

I know, I’ve had a bit of a blogging holiday but in my defense it was Christmas, new year and THEN we moved house. A great deal has happened in between time, one of the most notable things being the … Continue reading →

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Baby ferret photos

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Bidders

The weather here is pretty horrible and my computer needs to go into the menders pretty soon so I thought I would take the opportunity to do a little organising (I’m one of those people who saves everything to the … Continue reading →

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Bee keeping

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Bidders

Dumfries and Galloway have, in the last two weeks, held host to a ‘flavour fortnight.’ I found out about it all a little too late to be really involved but I did manage to have a look at a couple … Continue reading →

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Baby ferrets!

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Bidders

For some reason or other two ferrets were not enough. Polecat ferrets, little girl ones, were put up on gumtree and were impossible to resist. Named Denny (after the place they were born) and Shredder (for obvious reasons) they are … Continue reading →

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