dove farm diaries

with a little help from my friends

I have been (not so) gently reminded by darling other half (aka @dovefarm) that the whole purpose of a journal, or blog, is to write regular posts;  and the purpose of dove farm diaries, is exactly that –

to be a diary – a kind of captain’s log of what is going on and happening at the farm.

I have been remiss in my duties on that score.

There’s no getting away from it.

So, I will just  say that February ‘ happened’ – and here we are, into March.

With a bit of help, I have half put up another shed; always difficult these kind of jobs, because we rely on  a fair bit of goodwill and spare time energies of colleagues and friends to help – so progress is as economical as it can be, but often slow, confined to fair weather weekends and so on. The purpose of this new shed, which is joined  on to an existing one, will be to house livestock, as and when required.

We have taken the opportunity to  get some maintenance tasks done; in the cottages, in our house, and on the vehicles.

We have thinned out the poultry (too many cockerels) – too skinny to put in a pie, so the foxes and badgers  had a treat that day.

Had the vet out to Danny Boy donkey, to do a castration. After a winter of ‘nothing showing ‘ – Danny  decided spring had sprung, and we realised that everything had ‘dropped into place’. As they get older, stallion horses or donkeys, do not generally make good pets, so it was time to call in the vet….funny thing is, our vet is also called Dan.  Darling other half, called it sweet irony.  Yeah.

 Have done a fair bit of horse-trading  in Feb meself -  machinery wise that is.

Our new website for used farm machinery, ,www.stretton-agri.co.uk is performing nicely,  and serving as  a showcase for  the agri-machinery we no longer need, as well as items we have bought in or traded against.