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I started recording our livestock expenses versus 'revenue' from not having to buy eggs and meat since early November. As we've had all of our livestock since before then it is a bit weighted in our favour. I get the 'revenue' from not buying eggs (€3/dozen), chicken meat (€6.50/kilo), duck meat (€5...

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We've got a couple of Turkeys on the go at the moment.

Last weighing they were 13 and 10 kilos each, so pretty hefty birds (around 5 months old I think).

I'm expecting to do the throat/jugular cut, if possible going all the way through the spinal cord which should make it fairly instantaneous.

Hi there, have been monitoring since we got here last February. Small farmhouse, all ground floor. Wood heating (oil c/h not turned on yet) Two adults Three dogs Hot water manually turned on every other day during lower rate period. Average (with hot water) Day = 8 kwh / Night = 9 kwh Average (witho...

Ooh, forgot about the strawberries, don't think they'll fruit much longer as the frosts are now starting here.

Home grown chicken
Home grown potatoes
Home grown leeks
Home grown carrots

Thrown in the pressure cooker, nice, tender and juicy

Store bought wine...lol.

Carrots
Leeks
Brocolli
Brussels
Sweet corn

Chickens
Ducks
Turkeys
Rabbits

we're on the army flight path near salisbury plain, so we get some huge chinooks overhead every day! some times they fly low (and very loud) on a sunday morning and scare the b'jesus out of me when im trying for a lie-in We get them beggars too occasionally... bloomin' eck feels like the house is b...

The .pdf file downloads just fine.

Why upload it to S'Ish forum when the link to it has already been posted...?

We've lived overseas now for the last 11 or so years, having just moved to France in February from the Middle East. The grass is certainly ' greener ' here in France, :lol:...there was so little grass in the Middle East. Life is what you personally make of it, there were some difficulties living out...

I've been experimenting with this. We've a lot of dry hay, cut and packed in boxes in our barn. So I use one of those hand-operated briquette makers, using a mix of hay and 'used' rabbit bedding (wood shavings et al), compress it after first lining the unit with cardboard and a string for tying. See...

Andy Hamilton wrote:Ah that reminds me, I have linked to some ishers and would be happy to link to any more but please do link back.

Congratulations, you're the first to join the blogroll of my new blog.

Frost was here in the Vienne a couple of days ago, albeit light.

Now we're into rain, good for filling my new interlinked waterbutt system...

We've just had the first of our many chickens go broody, so we decided to let her get on with it. She was seperated from the others in her own 'maternity' ward (dog travel crate (minus dog)) and a couple of days ago we heard the first cheeps from under her. We know the sound as we've also had a coup...