Chick Shed
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 […]
Tag Archives: killing
Pet Turkeys
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 […]
Jerusalem Mixed Grill
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 […]
Duck Eggs, Duck Hearts and Roast Duck
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 […]
Slaughter Sunday is Back
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 […]
Smoked Duck
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 […]
Dead Duck
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 […]
No more pigs
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 […]
Devilled Lambs’ Kidneys
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 […]
Chicken with pork and bread stuffing
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 […]
