Are you joining in with Malc with the oh! No
Yesterday I arranged to look after two more donkeys. I can hear the cries of horror from here.
Let me explain, friends of the young couple over the road have bought a bit of pasture land nearby
for their two small castrated donkeys. I had the idea of putting them all together as we have plenty of pasture and two donkey sheds. When they all escape I will have young folk to help me bring them all back, now that should work , shouldn't it? It will be so lovely for my girls to have little friends.
Then today we met Mimi and Kevin, local farmers who are over run with chickens. Penny our hen has been very lonely and Annie granddaughter really fancied choosing a couple of hens to keep her company. She had spent most of the holiday in Spain deciding on names and had come up with "Scratch and Peck". When we went with the cat box tonight to choose two there was no way we were going to be coming home without chickens. My plans of buying specialist chickens thrown out of the window, Annie decided on a smart black hen with very red comb and a rather large scruffy brown one. Now the one problem was Mimi was not sure if the black one was a cockerel or not and the last thing Malc wants is a clutch of chicks. ( well not exactly the last thing as two more donkeys are not high on his list) Tomorrow we have to wait and see if the black hen " jumps" the other two. Mimi tells us this is a sure way of spotting a male.
Quite a different way of obtaining two new chucks for me, my normal way of ordering two brown at point of lay which come in a box on Thursday mornings delivery at Unicor seems very civilized and easy in comparison.
So saying Mimi and Kevin at Cambou have lots of hens for sale if you need new hens.
So now we wait to see what tomorrow brings and at least Annie has gone to bed happy.
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