25 May
The Jeremy’s along with many other friends had a great day at Becki & Phil’s Wedding. We had a great day, with lots of food and fantastic weather.
The Jeremy's @ Becki & Phil's Wedding
14 May
After losing Ethel and Peggy, we have extended our farm. We now have 2 young pullets.
Meet Flossie who is Warren breed, which is a cross between a Rhode Island Red and Longhorn breeds, she is my wife Sue’s replacement for her favourite chicken, Ethel who died a couple of weeks ago! She approximately 16 weeks only but not yet laying.
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| From New Ladies Arrival |
Meet Bluebell, as well as being call Bluebell, she is also a Bluebell breed, which also looks like a Speckledy breed which is a cross breed with Rhode Island Red and a Maran. She is also approximately 16 weeks and has just laid her first small egg today! Well Done Bluebell.
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| From New Ladies Arrival |
More photos!
22 Apr
Sadly we had to say good bye to 2 of out Chicken this week!
Ethel the brave, who was Sue’s little favourite. Ethel was an ex-battery hen who came to us nearly featherless in May 2010.
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| From The 'Ladies' settling in! |
Ethel died after having a great year of free range freedom at her new home; her feathers grew back to look like any other chicken!
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| From The Ladies – Nov 2010 |
Peggy was one of the latest adopted chickens, she had a full life of free range freedom and enjoyed the last months in her new adopted home.
They both had to be put down by the vet due to them being very ill.
10 Jan
We have added is some new additions to our chicken family. Our friends Reg and Eve ask us if we wanted to adopt their 2 chickens. Peggy and Sue are 2 black chickens that they have had for 2 years and they needed to find them a good new home for them. So on the 9 January 2011, we took in these lovely ladies.
Peggy and Sue are a crossbreed of Rhode Island Red and Black Rock breed of chickens.
Peggy & Sue have settled in well, but they soon established their place at the top of the new pecking order with Mavis, Ethel and Getrude at the bottom.
8 Dec
Published in the Metro Tuesday, December 7, 2010
FORGET exploring the aching of your soul or the meaning of life – what really makes us happy is the chance to have a cuppa with friends and sing some songs, scientists say.
Being part of a church congregation surrounded by like-minded friends is more important to happiness than prayer, a study has found. The sense of ‘belonging’, rather than the religiosity, is what made people ‘extremely satisfied’ with their lives. Of those that went to church every week and had three to five close friends in the congregation, a third were ‘extremely satisfied’ with their lot. Of those who went to church several times a year but had up to five close friends there, the proportion fell to about a quarter.
However, only a fifth of those who had no close friends at church were extremely satisfied, which is the same proportion as for those who never go to church. Belonging was ‘the secret ingredient’ in religion that made people happier, said US researchers.
‘One of the important functions of religion is to give people a sense of belonging to a moral community,’ said Asst Prof Chaeyoon Lim of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ‘This community, however, could be abstract and remote unless one has an intimate circle of friends who share a similar identity.
‘The friends in one’s congregation thus make the religious community real and tangible and strengthen one’s sense of belonging to the community.’ The findings applied to the three main Christian traditions but researchers said they found ‘similar patterns’ among Jews and Mormons.
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