Posts Tagged ‘Quail’
Quail chicks
Posted in Quail, tagged chick, photo, Quail on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not there yet… back to normal I mean
Posted in Day-to-day, Garden, Quail, tagged Garden, power cut, Quail, snow on February 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There is still snow on the ground here, and more fell last night. There was also a power cut, I’m not sure how long it lasted. I woke up to the smell of a burnt orange candle and Rhys telling me that there was a power cut but not to worry, he’d already put a [...]
Beachcombing
Posted in Goats, Quail, tagged beach, chicks, Cuttlefish, goat kid, Goats, Quail on January 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’m a little bit last with everything this week, I went on a residental at the weekend which was great fun. It was in Wales by a beach, I haven’t been to the beach for ages and I also liked the beach at this time of year.
We spent loads of time on the beach and [...]
White Texas A & M Quail
Posted in Quail, tagged 2009, egg, hatching, incubator, log, plan, Quail on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I started some more eggs off in the incubator the Friday-before-last, I bought 24 White Texas A&M eggs to try and have 11 of my own eggs in there as well. The time has gone really quickly, they’re due to start hatching a week tomorrow.
I’ve only put in eggs from one of my quail houses [...]
Winter Solstice
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food, Homemade, Quail, tagged bucket, carrots, chocolate, Christmas, eggs hatching, garlic, leeks, moon planting, onion, peas, Quail, Winter Solstice on December 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today was the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. From now on days will be getting longer and everything with start to wake up.
As a sort of celebration I have spent this evening making paper pots and sowing peas, carrots (to be grown in buckets until the warmer weather when they can go outside) [...]
Quail Egg Setting
Posted in Film/Video, Quail, tagged Eggs, film, hatching, incubator, Quail on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Eggs all now safely in the incubator!
Getting ready for hatching
Posted in Quail, tagged Christmas, Eggs, hatching, incubator, May, Quail, thunder storms on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m getting ready to hatch some quail eggs, I’ve been collecting the eggs and turning them for the past two days and the incubator has been washed and is running ready to put the eggs in on Saturday.
It seems like an ideal time of year for hatching now, especially after the disaster of the lot of eggs [...]
Well, winter is finally here
Posted in Day-to-day, Food, Garden, Goats, Quail, tagged Eggs, Garden, Goats, holiday, knitting, Local Exchange Trading System, Quail, rain, snow, socks, spinning, vegetables, Winter, wool, work on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Outside it is snowing, huge flacks but it’s been raining all afternoon so the ground is, touch wood, to wet for it to settle.
October has flown by; I’ve spent most of it working. I work right though from the 13th until the 22nd, two days off and now I’m back at work. Officially I’m on [...]
