Pinot has discovered the duck cam…
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Oh heck, nobody has told Pinot our foster Runner duck drake that Valentines is over… he is pursuing one of the black & white girls there with some determination!
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Our neighbouring farmer died a few months ago, and his executors have kindly allowed us to use the adjacent field. Fair to say Chip is beyond delighted!
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There's a #fullmoon tomorrow morning at 10:04am in the UK, so perfect conditions this evening at the #smallholdingdream to see it. And a plane in flight too.
This morning's #smallholdingdream photos were inspired by the U1 song whose lyrics start with "All is quiet on New Year's Eve" ....
These retired commercial chickens are 100% farmyard pets now - we’ve had them a year now. (Brian the bantam cockerel has been here for 4 years). They are moulting again at the moment so having a break from laying, but they do love a good rummage in the stable straw.
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Nature is telling me to be festive 🤦🏼♀️ this fell off the Field maple behind the stables.
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A friend came to exercise my mare today because I’m still not feeling great… brought his two lurchers with him and collected #AlfieTheBeagle from the house to play with them. Found this on the security camera…
Watch to the end…. 😂
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It’s all go at bedtime bathtime at the #smallholdingdream 😳🤣 - the ducks are staying inside unless weather is dry (partly b/c they turn the poultry paddock to mud, partly b/c it ⬇️ avian flu risk to stay inside) but they do have bathtime in the hosed-down stableyard every day. Sound on!
In big news at the #smallholdingdream, our neighbour’s beautiful runner duck drake is starting to get into his stride! I’m not sure he has yet figured out he needs to do a bit more than just stand on the hen duck’s back like an avian sychnronised swimmer mind you 😂
Parental discretion advised 😵💫😂
We've hit -1`C on the yard this evening at the #smallholdingdream
Brandy the #ShetlandPony behaving like the breed stereotype by standing out in the pouring rain at the #smallholdingdream when there is an empty dry stable full of nice hay ... 🤦♂️🤣
Hobnob the Fell pony foal left home today! He is now officially called Hobson. His new mummy is one of my closest friends who has been my horse guru for nearly 20 years! I am
So excited for her, and can’t wait to see them out showing next year!
#FellPony #RareBreed #NativePony #Smallholdingdream
Well, this answers the question as to whether my 2 year old Sports Pony Ceilidh (part bred Highland, SPSS graded and Futurity Gold award… anyone want her?!) lays down in the field shelter!
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Ceilidh auditioning for the “before” section of a Persil laundry detergent advert.
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Alfie the Beagle waiting for me to catch up and open a gate during this morning's walk at the #smallholdingdream
An almost perfect linear duck parade as @smallholdingh.bsky.social puts Eggstra, Tilly, Pinot, Pom Pom, Ducky, Midget, Kay and Ditto to bed at the #smallholdingdream
Treat time on the morning walk at the #smallholdingdream
Meet the Pirhana ducks at the #smallholdingdream (and check out our super handsome foster duck, Pinot)
A full moon cockapoo yesterday evening at the #smallholdingdream
Hobson is 20 weeks old now and at the Rod Stewart in the 1980s stage of mane and forelock development!
#FellPony #smallholdingdream
You are the reason I get out of bed in the morning with a smile on my face...all the way over in Australia as your posts come overnight. I love little Alfie and what a handsome pony Hobnob is becoming, how are the cats? 😊 I live in a unit and I ❤️ your
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The cats are displeased at the #smallholdingdream
Beagle and a black cockapoo sharing a dog bed
A black metal baby gate at bottom of staircase
Beagle in the foreground, man in the background fiddling with electric fence posts and tape in a field.
View across a field, barely visible dot in the distance is circled on the photo, that is Alfie the Beagle lying down
A sunny Sunday at the #smallholdingdream with #AlfieTheBeagle #HeIsStayinh… sharing a bed with Milo the cockapoo, a new baby gate for the stairs, hanging out in the paddock whilst @smallholdingh.bsky.social and I re-configured electric fencing then he sat and just sniffed the air far end of field 🤷🏼♀️
#AlfietheBeaggle enjoying the sun after all the rain yesterday at the #smallholdingdream
A photo from this morning's dog walk; one of several 'fairy rings' at present across the #smallholdingdream. 🍄🧚
That’s a funny horse poop….
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