Soon we're going to need a Farm!

So, in my First Blog Post I mentioned that we have some animals.  Well over the last weekend, the number increased by five.


Let me introduce you:-


First we have Tabby, we've had Tabby for nearly 7 years now, she came with her brother Grey but he was sadly run over after about a year.

Next we have Sandy, he's a rescue dog (which is why he's so skinny).  We're not sure how old he is but it's somewhere between 11 and 15.

Then there's the chickens - we did have 3 but Monica was egg bound and died in January, the other two are called Rachael and Phoebe.

My son is now 12 and wanted a pet of his own, so we built this...

Gerbil Towers

...to house Charlie and Simon

Every week my step-daughter Holly comes to stay for a few days as she goes to college in Newquay, in an attempt to stop her being bored, husband decided to get some Rats for them to have joint responsibility for.  So, after getting a free rat cage from Freecycle, over the weekend we welcomed Lola, Chandler, Shadow and Fat Stripe to the house

And last but not least, at around 5.30 yesterday morning, the little fella came into the world...

...he is the only one to hatch from a batch of 6 eggs.  We know it's a "he" as the eggs were from some Cream Legbars chickens where the males and females have different markings from day one.  Unfortunately this means we will not be able to keep him as the area where we live is too built-up for cockerels so until we decide his fate he is called "the chick".


That's all for now...although there are 6 Runner duck eggs in the incubator and 6 Khaki Campbells duck eggs to be added tomorrow that are due to hatch at the end of March :D