Christmas comes early!

We now have a trio of Norfolk Black Turkeys, I'm so happy!

I have to point out these guys are not for Christmas Dinner, well I'm sure Ron would say other wise at the moment as the stag (male) hit Ron over the head with his wings this afternoon! lol

Just before the summer holiday Ron and I had talked about getting a few turkeys in for xmas , but thought we'd go with the meat chickens to start with.

But today while I was looking on the pet ad pages, I found a lady locally selling them off cheap! I had to find out more. Within a couple of hours we were all on our way to get them.

I'm very jealous of this lady - she had horse, chickens, pigs, peacocks and the turkeys. She had just about enough land as we would want, it just lacked a house lol

One day..... One day I'll have my proper little small hold.... One day

xx

Reusing & Recycling.....

As the weather is getting a little bit colder, I know my salad outside won't last long. So I thought it's about time I sowed some indoors. But I have 1 problems with that, and her name is Willow!

My 9 year old cat has always had a think for anything green!

I had a nice range of house plants until I got her for my 21st birthday. With in a month they had all died from her eating or knocking them on floor.

So whatever I grown my salad in it has to be cat proof!

That's it! Cat proof.....

What can't be any more cat proof than Diego's old OVO Habitrail units!

Poor Diego the hamster die early this week at the age of 2, which we are all sad about. But I'm sure he'd be happy with us using his tank to grow some salad.

So, that's what I've done.

I layer of compost in the bottom, sowed the mixed salad leaf seeds and watered. I've closed the lid and put the stoppers on the tube holes - Now I have a very strange looking mini greenhouse.

I have few other units that I will do the same with over the next few weeks, spacing them out by a week.

I wonder what else I could grow in them?? mmmmm...........

Anyone for a roast??

I can't believe it's here already!

Our 1st lot of meatie chicks are now fully grown chickens and ready for the table.

We plan on doing it sometime this week - well Ron is.

I have only had to dispatch one of our chickens and that's only coz Ron wasn't about. I not sure I could dispatch, pluck and gut 5 chickens in 1 day 1st time round.

I plan on having a roast with the 1st one. and the rest will be put in the freezer until they are needed.

The 1st of the meaties!!

Yesterday, Ron Fi & Josh went off to pick up 5 new chicks.
These are not egg layers, these will be dinner, and the kids have been told from the start not to get to attached to them - and most importantly no naming any of them!!

Josh has said he'd like to have a go at plucking a chicken, which I'm glad coz I'm going to need a hand clucking 5 chickens!
Knowing my luck he'll be better at it than me!

The lady we got them from (Joy) has given us lots of advice on what to feed them and when, so we get the best of of them.
They are the same type of birds Huge (River Cottage Man) used in his programme when they raised the cheap 2 for a fiver type ones in the barn and the ones outside free ranging (I can't think of what the programme was called right now - but if your a Chicken Out fan then you know the one I mean)
I'm really looking forward to raising these little guys, mainly as it is going back to basics and truelly raising my own food for my growing family.

In less than 16 weeks (chicks are 3 weeks old now) time I will be cooking and eating a a happy healthy chicken that was spoilt rotton all the way. They may be meaties but they still have the same needs as our eggy girls and they will get it all, unlike their poor barn raised cousins around the country.

xx

Intro...

Hi
This is the blog of Ange & Ron and their 4 children who live on "Ron's Farm".
But I have to set 1 think straight.....
....We don't live on a farm (yet!)

It all started in August 2007. I (Ange) moved in with Ron in his mid terrace house with my 3 children. I had 1 German Shepherd called Starr, 1 rather fat cat called Willow, and a few rabbits (I think it was about 6 or 7) & Ron only had 1 cat called Smoky. Sadly Smokey is no longer with us.

Now, well it's a bit different, you can't go far in our house without meeting something furry or with feathers on!
I'm going to blame Ron for it really - it was his idea to have a few chickens and for me to get a few more rabbits (lol)

But just from that idea we have change our life forever.
Self Sufficenicy is now our goal and we will get there one day. But for now we are happy living in our little 'farm' and thanks to Kerrie we have a name for it - Ron's Farm.

xx