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Stonehead wrote ; What I'd really like to make is elderflower and gooseberry jam, but with the elderflower in blossom now I think I'll have to skip that this year and use the elderflower for other things.[quote why not pick the elderflowers now and freeze them for later use...i do this so i can make...

This is how I have done it. Makey-uppy-recipe (first time trying...) warm loads of sugar....(this can be adjusted to taste as you experiment) and disolve in a little boiling water to make a strong syrup. stuff as many rasps, or elderflowers, or strawbs etc, as possible, into a container put all this...

:lol: Ihave been, aherm!!, making raspberry gin, :lol: redcurrent vodka :geek: , elderflower gin :cheers: , strawberry vodka :shock: , tayberry hic gin, :king:....looking forward to long dark winters nights being warmed by the acloholic fruits of my labours....well already have some tasting sessions...

Hi - thats the thing I do have a lavender peking bantom but she has never shwon signs of brooding!! Ill keepmy eye on her morethoguh and see if she looks as if she would like to have a moresecludedbroody spot
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yeh I was beginning to wonder if id said something un-PC!! Or could it be that there is no way of interfeering in this aspect of nature. Matilda the duck is still quite happily sitting on the four hens eggs...havent quite worked out what Ill dowhen they hatch...is she going to head straight for the ...

I dont know how to encourage the Hens to sit! and go broody in the safety of the hen house. (One hen got out of the field and did return with three chicks. I do have a muscovy duck who is sitting on 4 hen's eggs - may end up with an identitiy crisis when the chicks hatch) Has anyone got tips. Someti...

Went into the hen house this morning to find two of the nesting boxes occupied...no problem there ! Well.... one was Rory, my No 2 cockeral..sitting on eggs and refusing to budge! He was making all the broody henny type noises and pecking at me when I tried to get the eggs. Ive heard of mister-hens ...

Went into the hen house this morning to find two of the nesting boxes occupied...no problem there ! Well.... one was Rory, my No 2 cockeral..sitting on eggs and refusing to budge! He was making all the broody henny type noises and pecking at me when I tried to get the eggs. Ive heard of mister-hens ...

Hey it happened...we had a day of NO rain, plenty of yellow rays and a good dose of wind to dry things off.....yippeeeeeeee. spent the whole day oooot the hoose soaking it all up

thanks to everyone for their words of welcome. Wrist is still sore...but thats :flower: my own fault because I cant stop myself from doing silly things like trimming hedges and cleaning out the hen house....and of course this is all in the rain....ummmm i supose everything we do is in the rain these...

Hello....I am not sure what to write - dont want to talk too much about myself. We have a smallholding here in Strathmore...about 5 acres now. Animals include 2 horses (floyd and shelby), 3 dogs (Maddie, Sunny and Oddy-Asbo), dont knowhow many cats, 20 hens including 2 cockerals (Tom and Rory)...Thr...