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Chick Shed

May 2, 2017by Claire Leave a comment

The chicks born just before Easter have now moved outside into the chick shed with the older chicks. They are slowly getting used to each other. And starting to explore […]

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Animals

Pet Turkeys

April 11, 2017by Claire 1 Comment

I thought I had two pet turkeys. Life never turns out as you expect it to. The two turkeys that survived from the five we hatched out last year were […]

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Animals

Jerusalem Mixed Grill

December 10, 2016by Claire 5 Comments

We had the spice carrot salad with beetroot hummus, home made flat bread and yoghurt and Jerusalem mixed grill. The grill uses chicken hearts, liver and breast, but I left […]

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Dogs, recipes

Duck Eggs, Duck Hearts and Roast Duck

October 10, 2016by Claire 4 Comments

Yesterday was Sunday, so I imagine you can guess what was going on at our place. It was the turn of the young pekin ducks that we hatched out earlier […]

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Animals, recipes

Slaughter Sunday is Back

October 1, 2016by Claire 5 Comments

My dog eats meat. The ducks had five years free-ranging in the pear garden. They had pretty much stopped laying eggs. We decided that a quick, quiet, unexpected death before […]

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Animals, Dogs

Smoked Duck

May 30, 2016by Claire 8 Comments

I am exhausted. We have been working at least 12-hour days this long weekend between the campsite, processing ducks, sorting out sheep, doing the glamping tent, the polytunnel and sorting […]

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Animals, Food Truck, recipes

Dead Duck

May 25, 2016by Claire 2 Comments

Round here if you want to eat roast duck it requires a long old process. First purchase some Pekin duck eggs and hatch them out. Then realise you have 5 […]

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Animals

No more pigs

April 25, 2016by Claire 4 Comments

James took the Gloucester Old Spot boys to the abattoir early this morning. They were born to a free-ranging sow in August on a lovely care farm very near here […]

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Animals, recipes

Devilled Lambs’ Kidneys

March 18, 2016by Claire Leave a comment

In my continuing journey eating the less-often eaten bits of the sheep, I had devilled kidneys for dinner last Saturday night (and leftovers on Sunday evening as well). James had […]

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Animals, recipes

Chicken with pork and bread stuffing

January 10, 2016by Claire 2 Comments

We don’t buy meat, in fact we don’t really buy fruit or vegetables either (yeah yeah except bananas and lemons) we eat what we grow. So the only chickens we […]

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