This week on the farm we celebrated the lifting of avian bird flu housing measures. Watching the hens go back onto fresh pasture is a great relief after six months of restricted housing for our hens.
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is probably one of the most dusty, itchy, and sweaty jobs we do, as oats are an incredibly dusty grain. Yet the satisfaction of seeing a full trailer of homegrown oats to feed our pigs and chickens and give milking parlour snacks to our cows throughout the next year makes it totally worth it and we have a lot of fun doing it too!
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With the grass already looking greener, it also gives a nudge to start thinking about the inevitable autumn. In the wetter months we have to manually carry everything to the chicken houses. To ease this load, we position the tunnels further down the hill, closer to the track.
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The cost of chicken has risen by 10% recently due to the increased cost of feed. All the more reason to be grateful for the wonderful organic pasture reared birds we get from our supplier, Springfield Poultry.
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The laying hen enterprise has undergone a lot of changes in the last two years. The new chicken tunnels are doing well, and the hens appear to be happier and healthier in them despite inclement weather and avian flu lockdowns.
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The ewes have been scanned and we’re expecting 109 lambs in six weeks! This year, Gala put our two new Shetland, Icelandic and Poll Dorset cross rams in with some of the flock, so we’re all excited to see their multicoloured lambs.
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Plaw Hatch Farmer and Shepherd, Gala Bailey-Barker, discusses the exciting changes happening with our chickens this year.
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Maya, Miriam and Louisa kicked the year off by attending the Oxford Real Farming Conference.