Friday, May 02, 2008

The Peahen Laid An Egg

Great news our peahen 'Snow White' has laid her first egg. Asmaani our peacock has been hard at work in the flirting department he is constantly displaying and shaking his feathers at basically anything that moves, isn't he like all men!!! I found the egg on top of the rabbit hutches sitting all alone and cold, so I took a small tyre and filled it with straw and put the egg in it. She may be drawn to the nest or not lets hope so.

Roy has set the big cauldron up for boiling. It now takes 3 hrs to boil a large batch of piggie porridge that will last them 6 feedings. A little better than the every day boil we were doing. the farm is in its usual mud surroundings after a couple of days of heavy rains and snow yet again, but we are looking forward to some sunshine over the weekend.

I have the first Llama trek of the season booked for this weekend and also the first group of school visitors coming next week so we shall put up my signs for the learning stations around the farm of which there are 12. At each station there is information about what animals are there, some history of their domestication and why we have them on the farm today.

Roy and I took some days off while Jenn and her boyfriend Jay were here. We made good food, had a sausage cookout one night. Rode the horses, did a carriage ride and played tock till the wee hours of the morning. And a good time was had by all!