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Everything is looking much better 😊 lovely little lamb.

It’s looking great, I feel this year especially we are all sat on the edge of hope as far as the weather goes. It’s still feeling cold here and now on my day off it’s also pouring with rain so I can’t do much in the garden either. Super pleased for the lovely pheasant chicks and your lovely new lamb x

You ARE very much on top of things this year. ...and talking about "living on site..." have you YET got any lumber for your 2024 building project? I dont see your post rammer laying around! 🙄 Its closer and closer to the rainy season! Put ten posts into the ground and tie them togeter with 6x2, or 8x2 if you can afford. Looking forward to seeing you start it. Properly posted, it can get quite a few views. 😂

Hey Geoff. Thanks for the tour round the market and flower gardens. That week of hot weather has spurred things on, some successes and an odd disappointment, well it happens. You have things to make up the veg. boxes. That looks like a decent lamb and it's mother's growth doesn't seem to be too stunted, considering she was tupped early. We have taken a cut for baled silage, not a heavy crop but it should be good stuff. We hope all is ok with you Geoff. Best. Jacob and Johnny.

Our garlic has done exactly the same - hardly bulked up at all and very few have split. We planted at about the same time as you - it must be the weird weather we are having. Yours are doing much better for rust than ours though - I had to give up and harvest ours yesterday as they were absolutely covered in rust. Will just use them fresh as I don’t think they’ll store - definitely won’t be self-sufficient in garlic this year 🙈 - loved the tour - so brilliant to see everything getting moving - what a fantastic job you do - lucky customers to have a veg box grown with such love and care 😊😊

Hey it all looks really good considering all the challenges this year. I'm a great believer in just letting dahlias be, and nigella self seed wonderfully after a time. And a very lovely lamb!

You sound much cheerier this time round ...so pleased for you. ❤

Hope you are doing good ❤

The government told me that this was the hottest spring ever so naturally i trusted them

Nice to have sunny days!

Oh no. Hope there has been some improvement. Poor Horus that’s awful. Hope things are looking up a bit now. Lambs will be lovely.

What a brave little Horus! I hope he recovers very quickly after his op. I had a beautiful one eyed cat who lived to be nearly 20 yrs old. Stay strong Geoff😻

Hello Geoff, sorry to hear about all the challenges! Sounds like you have had it very tough. But admire your resilience and positivity. You are doing some wonderful things on the farm 😊👍

Get well soon 😊

Sorry to hear about all the difficulties. I hope things improve soon. It might be better to see if you can find a vet who uses homeopathy. They tend to be more about care and less about profit. Also, there aren't the huge range of side-effects that drugs have. Re blackbirds - are they afraid of birds of prey? You can get kites (as in the thing that kids fly) for pest control which are designed like different birds of prey. You can suspend in the air using a flexible pole, tree branch etc. Not sure how efficient they are.

Thank you for what you are doing, you are amazing. He is absolutely lovely, it’s so unfair that these things happen. I hope he can be saved and go on to live a comfortable life, he deserves it especially after the ordeal he’s been through. Please show him lots of love!

Poor baby good luck

Wishing you all the best! 🩷

Veg box looks great. Flowers are beautiful.

I hope the weather has improved slightly. It has been rubbish.

He's such a lovely cat, i hope more people donate so he can be saved 🤞

Keep going! Remember how far you have come and that yes, there are always ways to keep going and keep improving whilst also needing to maintain what you have but that’s all part of the fun even if it is a juggling act. You’re still doing a great job xx

Awk Geoff I'm so sorry for your troubles. That's a lot going on! I feel sorry for Horis, (I had a rabbit named Horis... And a horse named Bunny) but £1000?? Sorry but no. As sad as it would be I couldn't justify that either. Sorry about the chicks too. That's rough man! I'm glad to see your animal-pecked market garden is producing tho! And lamb stew.... Yum! 😂😂 And lamb babies!

Just potted 3 white and 3 purple... thanks for these helpful tips and info.. 1st time I've ever potted anything.

So sorry you're going through it at the moment. I had a bad run last summer, so I totally understand how demoralising it can be sometimes. Keep going! Things can only get better.. 🤗

What a time for you Geoff. But I so admire you finding some positivity as well, while taking all that nature can throw at you! And probably howling at the moon!

Just want to wish you lots of good luck and good health for all your livestock.

My neighbours have a fake flying hawk that is attached to a line. Maybe that might help with the blackbirds. Could you set up a go fund me for the cat?

Hey Geoff. Sorry you have had troubles with your dog, cat, birds can escaping sheep. It's good to know that you have some positives and some summer lambs on the way and you are selling produce. I hope this all helps. The weather has improved for you, it's even improved for us up here and we can hopefully soon have the contractor come in and do us a cut for baled silage. We think you are doing a great job Geoff. Thanks for this vid. 🤓🐶🧔

Vets are such conmen, if you can get a prescription look online and the drugs are a 4th of the price.

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There is nothing quite as stressful as (a) sheep that is an escaper, especially when the rest of them do the “she’s escaped” baaaaaa and then on the flip there is nothing as relaxing as watching contented sheep munching. Chickens are the same! So glad about the ducks, especially the surprise Appleyards ❤. Poor Horace, I think what makes it even worse, if that’s possible, is that vet practices have changed so much - it seems to be an all or nothing approach and the all is SO expensive and if you don’t take that option you are made to feel like you are failing your pet - but even 10 years ago and definitely before that all these scans and crazy prices were not normal. A decent vet would have compassionately told you that you could try for a few days, but perhaps PTS was the right thing - and even without the fractured skull the eye removal wouldn’t have been that much. Don’t feel bad, all Horace will know is that you tried and you cared and loved him ❤❤❤

I'm sorry to hear you have had a terrible week, we all get times like that, always try to focus on the good and don't feel bad if you have to think sensibley about your cat. Luv from the 🇬🇧

Sorry to hear the week has been so rough, farming sounds just like the gift that keeps on giving! It’s sad to hear about little Horus, I hope he improves but I understand your decision, poor thing. It’s lovely to see the new chicks coming on well and I’m excited to see new lambs. I hope your luck improves and the sun continues to shine

I feel your pain, Geoff! Though we are a farm animal rescue, we go through similar bouts of “What else on EARTH could possibly go wrong?!” Between gardening, animals, finances, family, and so much more, I think anyone with a farm is juggling a lot! Looking forward to a calmer season for you! 🤞 You are doing such a great job!

Early flowering is a survival technique in adverse conditions.

Maybe getting rid of the sheep would make you less stressed, and give you more time for the other animals

At least I’m not alone with the pheasant chicks… about 4 weeks ago I had hatched out 5 lady Amherst chicks after two weeks they had all died. I think it were because they weren’t eating enough. They gave no warning, they just died. My male have really not been breeding the females. Almost no eggs er fertile. I just hatched out 1 lady Amherst with 6 araucana chicks, I sure hope it will survive a little bit longer… Love your content. Gotta look up to a professional pheasant keeper😅

How do you stop a blackbird? With a scarecrow? Wish your animals well.

It was a tough watch, this episode, and the situation with the cat made me cry but farm life is what it is. Good to hear the garden is coming to fruition.

Wow! Sounds like a really tough week but I am truly amazed by your positivty! I wanted to say I think you're doing a realy great job. You're dealing with adversity with the weather, crazy animal behaviour and some down right rotten luck, however you manage to stay positive and in my opinion at least are making the best decisions for both you and your animals. Keep at it, we are all behind you!!!

Sorry you've had such a rotten week. It won't help right away but could you look about for selling sights for a extra large walk in brassica cage that you could cover the market garden with? I know you can get extremely large ones, or if you can get your hands on scaffold poles possibly making one your self that you could always move if needed but would protect your crops from the pesky birds?

So next big project is a serious fence around the market garden?