Ballyteige Farm
Adventures of a city girl who gave it all up to live the good life on a smallholding in rural Ireland.
Broody Hen
The Blackrock hen has gone all broody. She is sitting on a clutch of eggs, 15 or so, waiting for them to hatch. I looked it up, it takes 21 days so another 18 days to go and we should have some little chicks running around. Excuse the quality of the photo but I was...
Pig Butchery
Back in February I bought two Oxford Sandy & Black piglets to raise for slaughter. Tadhg, a committed vegetarian, had repeatedly asked me not to send them to slaughter. In a moment of grief, I publicly vowed to his siblings that the two pigs would receive a stay of...
The Bees
An exciting day today when more livestock arrived on our little farm. 20,000 native Irish Black Bees! I have the hive already set up with the frames in place. The bees arrived in a nuc (nucleus/mini hive) on 5 frames which were transferred to my hive with another 6...