Welcome to our BLOG and thanks for stopping by!
This is our online diary of life on a smallholding.
You can meet the animals on our website at http://www.broadwaters-smallholding.com/ and we will endeavour to post plenty of photos and videos within this BLOG.
We are Jay, 36, Caroline, 28, and Lucian aged 4
We currently keep pygmy goats, a pony, rabbits, ducks, geese, chickens, guinea pigs, a barn owl, a foster puppy who has his own BLOG and Lucian also has pet snails... Giant African Land Snails :o)
In 2012 we also plan to create a new 'market garden' on our property and we will post details of its progress right here! We have yet to plan out exactly what we will be growing but our family, friends, neighbours and our animals can be sure to be provided with plenty of good n fresh food!
We are also working on the finer details of a poultry breeding programme. Last season we kept and bred our own chicken breeds and still do keep Silkie, Silver Spangled Appenzeller Spitzhauben and Lemon Cuckoo Pekin Bantams. However, for 2012, we plan to incubate and raise chicks from eggs purchased from a variety of local farms and poultry keepers. Preliminary plans are to hatch 30 chicks a week!
Our third venture is our rabbits. During 2012 we plan to breed Continental Giants, Mini Lop, Lionhead, Mini Rex, Dutch and Dwarf Lop rabbits.
Having had a good few years experience in raising rabbits then taking a break, we are very much looking forward to getting stuck in again.
We would also like to look into getting more nanny goats as we currently only have one (plus one wether and three billys!). We will see how we get on in April when Hermione is due to kid. If we do not have a heart attack and manage to get through the stress of our beloved nanny goat giving birth then we may well decide to expand upon the goat breeding. This year will teach us what to do and give us the experience we need.
Well that is about it really. We really hope you enjoy the BLOG :o)
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