Winter continues, not too surprising really as it is February, but I really cannot remember us having such poor weather for many a year now. Hopefully we will turn the corner soon and March will reward us with good weather.
Posts Tagged ‘Soay Sheep’
The Stile Guide – February
Thursday, February 11th, 2010The Stile Guide – January
Sunday, January 10th, 2010Happy New Year!
Here we are again in a New Year and what a start to the year it is proving. Here in East Sussex we have been pretty hard hit with all the snow. We have had well over one foot of snow and in places it has drifted to almost two feet in depth. It makes walking over the fields quite laborious but the animals have to be fed whatever the weather!
The Stile Guide – September
Monday, October 19th, 2009Norfolk Black Turkeys
The Turkey enclosure has been built and the Turkeys just love it. They are completely free ranging now and have really grown quickly which we attribute to being outside with plenty of fresh air and natural food upon which to forage.
We really hope that this will feed through into an excellent egg laying programme for 2010. Our rearing arks have arrived and so we really are all set for raising upward of 1,000 Turkey poults which will be for sale in 2010.
Its very exciting at the moment. We also have a few too many Stags in the pen which we intend to slaughter for the Christmas table for 2009 but these will only be marketed locally. We aim to raise maybe 100 for the table in 2010 which we may sell through the web site.