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The eggs that have hatched on the Hatchery webcam are from an assortment of Bantam that we were given. Out of 14 eggs there are 10 live Chicks. Three eggs have failed to hatch and one Chick had tried to break the egg in the wrong place and died. We needed to help four of the Chicks to hatch by gently taking part of the egg shell away. The Bantam eggs were given to us from people that we had got some Geese eggs from. They have a large number of fancy Bantam so hopefully we may get a few pure bred.

We put 10 Goose eggs in another hatcher that we had hope to show on the webcam but unfortunately none are going to hatch. The embryos have died in the incubation period. We have more Goose eggs that are due to hatch over the coming weeks. After these failures we are not to confident that any will hatch. There are Turkeys and more Bantams due to hatch next week.

After a lot of running around and fencing with have finally managed to stop the Sheep from straying onto neighbours potato crop. They are staying mainly in the Horse Field. There is one gap in our fencing that they have managed om find but that leads onto our drive so that are straying local. This morning a few managed to find their way to the Lake area and were grazing around the unfenced smaller Pond. Fortunately our new gates have stopped them from leaving the Farm. Ewy has now gone back with the rest of the Sheep. She manages to feed with Breeze when we feed the Horses in the Field. We need to get the Sheep penned in shortly to get their fleeces cut off. Don’t think that is going to be particularly easy. Ewy has started to lose her fleece naturally. Just as well as she would have been a nightmare to get in. Her new fleece is very dark, nearly black. I cant remember it ever being that colour before. I cant imagine that it would have changed.

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