I’ve been busy!

I’ve been a bit quiet on here this week – rather busy!

Saturday, Sunday, and Monday I was:
• Cleaning out the chickens (layers and growers)
• Feeding/watering chickens, ducks and geese
• Collecting eggs from layers
• Bedding some of the pigs
• Packing logs for the farm to sell
• Walking around the farm checking for burst pipes and leaks as we had no water in many areas for a few days. This meant some of the water troughs were not refilling so we had to hand fill them. The leak was found in a broken tap in the orchard and has since been fixed!

Tuesday was my day off and due to water issues on site the washing machines weren’t working so a trip to the launderette took place.

Yesterday I was:
• Harvesting savoy cabbages
• Harvesting salad
• Sorting potatoes and onions for the farm store and veg boxes

Today was box packing day so we spent the whole day doing this as we had 70 or so orders to pack.

The weather has cheered up a lot in the past few days, with the sun coming out and warming us up!

More photos will be added soon – just having a few problems uploading them from my camera.

New job & new piglets

Monday was my first day of work at Church Farm and it consisted of:
– A 7:30 start
– Feeding all the chickens, ducks and geese
– Coffee
– Towing a car out of the frozen mud
– An unexpected DEFRA visit
– Bacon sarnie’s
– Chicken coop and nest box cleaning
– Egg collecting
– Custard creams
– Moving two of the rams (called Andy and Randy) to a bigger field
– Catching 25 chickens for plucking
– Checking pregnant ewes for injuries (and moving injured ones closer to the farm)
– Checking on newborn piglets
– Stacking log bags

My first day was busy but in the nicest possible way! Today was my day off so I spent my time relaxing, keeping warm, and walking around the farm when the sun came out.

In the photos you can see Large White piglets experiencing their first day outside! The last photo is of the newborns.

Charlie 🐖

I’ve moo-ved!

I’ve moved! I’m now all settled in my cosy caravan, and can’t wait for work at the farm to begin tomorrow.