All change

When I got home I found two pigs in the chicken and duck coup!!

Ducks and Chickens all over the smallholding!!

Sheep in the electric fence!!
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A sheep acting dead!!

With a shake of a bucket, a check on a sheep and a bit of untangling all is well again now!!
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All in a day at katies smallholding!!

Time to enjoy last years fruits

I have just poured the first glass of last years home made wine. Have to say its drinkable!! must remember to get some on the go for next year!!

Identity Crisis - and latest pics of the smallholding

I dont know a kind neighbour farmer came and topped my field and a sheep wants to be a chicken! That gratitude for you!! Yes I found the sheep in the chicken coup

Best of Pals

The Naughty Pig 

The new look 

Follow the leader who was biting my wellies

Lay in

I decided to have a lay in this morning and got up at 8am - to the animals disgust!!!

Stardust decided at 7.30am that i had had enough sleep and kept patting me with that right paw of hers!!!

She and the other moggies got fed and water so i went to the pigs!! They saw me and decoded they didnt want to wait for me anymore and couldnt get out anywhere so they decided to take the field gate off its hinges!!

Once fed they have no wish to get out  - Think if they can take a gate off they are heavy enough now for bacon!!!

Autumn is definately here

Awoken by the wind - so glad I tied down the bee hives last night.

However the pig sty wasn't as lucky!! Completely flipped the sty over nextdoor neighbour has just helped flip it back. So we are all back to being present and correct. I wont mention the sheep sty which is in a serious need of a re build. No rush for that though as sheep don't use it.

getting back on the saddle so to speak.....

Um bee hive needed mending and with weather forecast of wind and lots of it there was nothing more to be done but be a beekeeper!!!

I put on three layers of clothes wellies and bee suit and three pares of gloves and went in.

Bees now tied down and bee hive fixed and phew no more stings Shoulkd be able to leave them alone now for winter other then a quick feeding.

Pigs meet the bees

Sorry to all my fb friends already posted this on fb but as my blog is my diary just capturing the moment. what a morning - pigs escape to get to me filling feed bucket knocked the bees over. Bees attacked me and the pigs - no bee suit - never ran so fast into a shower in my life - red from head to toe with hives from multiple bee stings - now that hurt. All sorted now pigs fine, bee hive back upright and i am starting to feel a little better. oh well could have been worse i guess! Thanks to all my fb friends for commenting their support was really welcomed.