ebay plants

Well my first ebay plants have arrived, 2 Rhubarb plants, can't wait to get down the allotment now and plant them.

Cracked Egg

I was turning the quail eggs earlier today and managed to crack one, Arghh, My book says to piant nail varnish over the crack. I have done this and popped it back in the incubator.

They are due to hatch next Monday/Tuesday.

Plants

I have decided to order some plants from ebay to get us going on the allotment.

Asperagus crowns , Onion sets and am now looking for some more.

Trains I hate them

Ok bad day, didn't get to Selby thanks to the stupid trains.

First 3 trains cancelled, next one late, conection cancelled (take another 2 hours to get there), Ticket office said they couldn't give refund only the ticket man on train as he had sold me the ticket, got on train to come home also late ticket woman wouldn't give me refund as she said the ticket office should have. Arghh.

To Selby we go

Henry and I are off to Selby today to see this other Poultry Auction.

Picture later.

Try again

There we go, its worked this time. That blurr is a clutch of snail eggs in the fish tank.

Eggs, yes more eggs

Well they are eggs but of another type, not Bantams, not ducks, nout any sort of bird.

No, they are Water Snail eggs. Yes the pair of little water snails that live with the goldfish have mated and layed eggs on the side of the tank. They can just be made out in the above picture a blur on the side of the tank.

Henry and Swimmer

Henry has enjoyed a cuddle with Swimmer his Bantam.

Ducks

Rosie has managed to catch all the new ducks today and ring the runners who look very similier at a glance (Well they do to me).

Our Harvest

Just Some of todays harvest, our slightly bent cucumber.

Some of our beans and peas

and our only red tomatoe

Allotment Trip

Well today we spent several hours on the allotment digging, weeding and harvesting, yes Harvesting.

About 4 lbs of Potatoes

2 lbs of Beans and Peas

1 Red Tomatoe

1 Cucumber
and several beetroot

Plus a sack full of dandelions for the ducks and bantams.

Henry helped with the compost by compressing it in to the Compost bin. Rosie picked Beans.

On the way home Henry was to tired to walk so had a ride in the cart.

Henry

I managed to get Henry a little boiler suit.

Opps More Ducks

Well we went to Thirsk Auction Yesterday. Sadly we had missed the Poultry Auction, looked good as well some really nice birds.

Decided to visit the cahp we had purchased our runners from. Well I got the 2 more runner female I wanted, as well as a male runner , and a Aylesbury drake , and ohh a Silver Appleyard Drake. I also feel in love with a Muscovy drake called Henry (we may yet be going back for him).

We have decided not to kep the Silver Appleyard and so are now looking for a really good home for him with other ducks.

Ducks

Still need some more ducks, and not having much luck finding any.

Rain, Rain and a bit More Rain

Well its raining, hard, I wanted to go out to the feed merchant and get some more wheat for the goose.. May go out later when it stops.

We need more Ducks and a Goose

We need more ducks, Brandy seems to be getting broody.

And Goosey needs a friend.

Goosey

Well Goosey has well and truly settled in, happily munching the lawn, and nibbling my plants.

Red House Stables Car Boot

Sunday we went to Red House Stables car boot sale, interesting sale with a Carriage driving theme.

Loads of carriages, horse riding equipment.

Selby Auction

Went to Selby Auction on Saturday to buy some new female ducks, need more eggs.

Sadly they didn't have any, they only ducks they had were a drake, 2 young drakes and 2 cages of very young unsexed khaki campbells.

We werre just about to leave when the girls saw a late lot arriving a lovely friendly goose. Well what could I do it looked so lonely and the only other chap interested was buying it for the oven. So I bid.

Any way we now have a very firendly goose, well gander. He loves the kids and follows them everywhere.

Incubator

Set the incubator up and started off the first lot of eggs.

more on my new hatching blog http://hatchingeggsandchicks.blogspot.com/