The chicks arrive next week so we have spent the day setting up the brooding pens in what was the old piggery. It makes the perfect place to rear them as the insulated slate roof keeps them cosy while the windows to the front and rear provide plenty of fresh air. The chicks are reared…

The Royal Cornwall Show is an event we all look forward to every year and this year did not disappoint. We spent the morning looking at the pigs and sheep and of course visited the poultry tent where there were a fabulous selection of all our feathered friends from turkeys to geese to bantam chickens….