Month: December 2008

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Starting from number twelve there are four new photographs on…

Starting from number twelve there are four new photographs on the Photo Page.

We have lots of photograph for the Photo Page. All that you have sent in wikll be put on.

They have left me. Karen Stoke.

I think this lady .goes there every day to feed the geese, and ducks, it was lovely to watch she was talking to them. Karen Stoke.

This goose was desperate to get away as the seagulls were closing in on it but it got away. Karen Stoke.

Fred & Cleo have been told off, they both retreated to one of there baskets. Karen Stoke.

We put Arnie out into the Horse Field for a few hours today. He is still not a 100% but seems to be getting a little better every day.

Thornton seems a little under the weather. He hasen’t been eating as he normally does. He is walking around alright and we noticed him nibbling at the hay this morning. He dosen’t look in any distress we will watch him over the next few hours. With Thornton you can never know what he has eaten that may not agree with him.

Today we have sent to the Barn Owl Trust new equipment for next years (2009) Nest Box Webcam. With the new equipement we hope to broadcast the nesting in colour during the day and mono at night with infra-red lighting. We have also sent the wiring so that the broadcasting can be with sound.

The artical below was sent in by Marie.

Being an animal lover, I was reading this with interest when I had a good chuckle at the end.

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Starting from number seven there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number seven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

Photographs all sent in by Sue from her Cousins collection.

Karen don’t hurt your brain by worrying that the Female Reindeer are missing Padfoot. I am sure that they know that he has gone. In the wild the only real contact between Male and Females is in the rutting season. The Female Reindeer did not take any notice of Padfoot when he was in the Field dead. Don’t get me wrong when I first farmed I thought as you.

The only time when I have seen an animal being concerned for one that is dieing, is when Tass fussed around Jade the day and night before she died. We didn’t expect to find Jade dead in the morning that she died, but Tass knew.

When animals loose their young, even when still born they will try to revive their offspring and call out for them, sometimes for many days. Although I use milk I always feel sad when I hear Dairy Cows calling for their young that are more often than not taken from them after they have had the colostrum. Weaning Foals is not pleasant and I always feel for both the Mares and Foals.

The Charcoal Kiln arrived today. It is in a bit better condition that what I expected and other than a small amount welding it will do what we want it to do for a couple of years. I purchased it on Ebay for

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Starting from number one there are six new photographs on…

Starting from number one there are six new photographs on the Photo Page.

Dear Mr and Mrs Farmer, We are all so sorry to hear about the death of Padfoot, what a shock it was. I have put together a collection of photographs of Padfoot as a little tribute. Vicky, Diane and John.

I must admit losing Padfoot has been a great loss. We only had him for a short while. In that time I really enjoyed having him. He was never the threat that we were told he would be in the rutting season. The only time he showed any aggression, and I reckon that was him having a bit of fun, is when he put his antlers against the front wheel of the quad bike when we were taking it in to fix the fencing.

Padfoot mated with all of the Females and we did not see any return, so we are hoping that he will produce Calves in the Spring. It could be that he may not have been fertile as we do not know what his illness was. I was unable to take him for a Postmortem as a Fox or Badger had managed to maul his carcass at little in the night and any results would have been contaminated. Although you know my thought on hunting we do use the hunt kennels to dispose of our fallen stock. Hunt Kennel Men because of the amount and species of animals that they butcher are very good at seeing what animals have died of and he will be letting me know if he sees any thing that may have caused Padfoots death. He is also saving Padfoots antlers that we will mount.

We are now having to wait for the results of the blood and feces samples from the Female Reindeer at Cricket St Thomas, for I believe that Padfoot problems originated from there. If the results show that there is a virus or other illness that can be passed on to our Females we will need to take precaution and any measures that will stop them from dieing as Padfoot has. Once we know our Females are clear from any problems we will get another Bull Reindeer.

Arnie is a lot better, not a 100% but getting that way. He is eating as before he was ill and is a lot perkier. We have stable him from when he was ill. As long as he is alright in the morning we will let him out in the Horse Field for a few hours.

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Starting from number eight there are eight new photographs on…

Starting from number eight there are eight new photographs on the Photo Page.

I got that one wrong. There have been sent a lot of photographs today that will last for about a week.

Pelicans in Green Park.London. Janice (Leeds)

Here’s Dartmouth on a lovely summer day! We have a holiday home in Brixham, we love Dartmouth. Janice of Leeds

Roses – Hyde Park London May 2008. Janice (Leeds)

Atmospheric Glencoe. Janice of Leeds

Slapton towards Torcross. Devon. Janice (Leeds)

Slapton Nature Reserve. Devon. Roll on summer days again! Janice of Leeds

Ladybird poppies at Coleton Fishacre Garden. Janice of Leeds

The house at Coleton Fishacre.Devon
Janice of Leeds

First of all the good news. Arnie is much better today. Not completely right but he is eating well and he is a lot perkier. I can only guess but it could be that hew slipped over or even rolled that caused a strain in his abdomen. The problem was in that area by the way that Arnie was stretching his rear legs.

Now the bad new. Padfoot died this afternoon. I was going to mention in last nights Diary that we had seen him scouring on Saturday, he was eating well but had lost some weight. Some weight loss would not have been unexpected after the rutting season, but he was not putting any weight on now that it was finished. I was going to call the Veterinary in this morning to give him a blood test, but I decided first to phone Cricket St Thomas Zoo from where Padfoot came from to ask a few questions. There remaining Reindeer were also scouring badly and were being treated by their Veterinary. They had also had two Reindeer die over the past months. One before we collected Padfoot and one after.

I collected antibiotic and multivitamin from the Veterinary, that we injected him with at about 1.0pm. At 4.pm when I went to feed the Reindeer Padfoot was down and taking his last breath.

I had seen him as did Karen on the webcam walking about this afternoon, so to find him dieing really was a shock. We are going to take him to Bristol Veterinary College in the morning for a postmortem, that we hope will tell us what Padfoot died from. We are concerned for our three Female Reindeer after learning of the same trouble with the Reindeer at the Zoo. The only comfort is that Padfoot was scouring a while back and the Females have not had any problems yet. We are hoping for the best.

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Starting from number six there are two new photographs on…

Starting from number six there are two new photographs on the Photo Page.

Unfortunately we have no more photographs to put on the Photo Page. Had it not been for Janice sending two in today there would not have been any.

I hope that I am wrong, but it could be that with recent lack of interest in both the Forum and Photo Page that both have come to the end of their sell by date. It may also be that the Forum is going in the wrong direction as I have received a number of emails from disillusioned viewers telling me that the Forum is becoming an agony page with too many illnesses being described with full details. I have always allowed a good amount of freedom in what is allowed on the Forum. Being a friendly Forum all using it want to know of the welfare of each other, but try to keep it to recent happenings.

Christmas Decorations at Chatsworth House.2008. Janice. of Leeds.

Christmas decorations at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire. Janice of Leeds.

We did have a few floods in our area after Thursday nights rain. It was only being told by one of our Holiday Guests and the amount of water around the Farm Yard that I realised what a storm it was, for I had slept through it all. It must have also been very windy as there were a number of objects, some heavy that had been blown about.

Driving around the Country Lanes delivering the logs we could see just how much rain there had been. The small brooks and streams had turned into raging rivers flooding many roads that we needed to drive very slowly through or we may have flooded the car. Last night we had a very bad frost that caused more problems with turning the puddles and wet roads into ice, that made driving this morning a little dangerous, but it soon thawed out.

After returning down the drive from a quick hour of Christmas Shopping we noticed Arnie laying down in the Horse Field. At the time he didn’t look uncomfortable although Arnie doesn’t lay down very often. On fetching the Horses in for their night feed Arnie was not first at the gate waiting to come in as normal and needed to be led in. He was very wet and cold under his turnout rug caused by both wet and sweat. He had little interest in his feed, eating very little, not like Arnie at all. He was also pawing a little at the floor and stretching his back legs as if in discomfort with colic.

We have rugged Arnie to dry him out and to get him warm. His droppings are normal that takes away one concern, and he seemed to be in less discomfort, although still a bit cold at 7.0pm. We will keep an eye on him through the night to make sure that he warms up and is starting to get better.

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Starting from number one there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

There are no more photographs to go onto the Photo Page.

1/ Sandford on Thames lock cut, I spend many an hour fishing here! Clive

2/ Small weir pool at the start of the lock cut.
at Sandford. Clive

3/ The river which runs to the big weir at Sandford. Clive

4/ This bit of river is called the Fiddlers Elbow, it is between Sandford and Kennington. Clive

5/ The small weir at the side of Iffley lock, about 2 miles downstream of Oxford. All the pictures were taken on a walk on Saturday. Clive

We are still getting a few problems with our hacker although we are starting to narrow down who it may be. We have by tracing the IP address seen that the hacker has a connection to a major UK city. Be it that his or hers broadband supplier is located there, or even the hacker them self. I will let you know how we progress.

We invited a Woodland Officer from the Forestry Commission to put us in the right direction to manage Ash Wood that we purchased a month ago. Our first step is to have a Woodland Assessment carried out. The Commission has a grant to help with the costs. This will put us in the right direction to put the Wood in good order after years of neglect by Somerset Count Council the previous owner.

The Assessment will give a direct approach to what would be best for the Wood. The Woodland Officer confirmed my appraisal that the Wood needs thinning to allow regeneration by allowing more light into the Wood. There is some natural generation but not as much as is needed. There are many very large Ash and Oak but not a lot to replace them. Thinning and replanting would get the Wood in a lot better state.

Being an Ancient Woodland any felling of Trees will need a licence, that will only be given if it is necessary for the good of the Wood. Over the years many tree have fallen that we are cutting and chopping for logs. There are so many that with just those that are fallen there will be a good few years of logs that can be sold. We have also purchased an oldish Charcoal Kiln so that we can produce Charcoal. Over 90% of all Charcoal that is sold in the UK is imported from Countries with many unstainable Woods and Forests. The cost to our environment in transporting imported Charcoal is worth the effort to try to produce even a little at Denbury.

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Last night the website was hit by a Hacker The…

Last night the website was hit by a Hacker. The was no risk to those viewing the webcams or the website. I cannot for the life of me understand how these pond life get satisfaction from spoiling other peoples pleasure.

No doubt the pond life will attempt to hack into our system again. Until we find how it is getting in the only way that we will be able to stop it is to have a log in system where you need to register to make an entry on the Forum. I am sure that you wont want that, just as I don’t want to have to accept your registration as it will cause me additional work and cost that I do not want.

You would not want to know what the cost of keeping this website going, let alone having to pay for it, so I am not best pleased with any criticism that is made of any type or for any reason.

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Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

See what happens if you sleep around! Elsie.

I GOT STOPPED FOR SPEEDING YESTERDAY.
I THOUGHT I COULD TALK MY WAY OUT OF IT UNTIL THE OFFICER LOOKED AT MY DOG IN THE BACK SEAT. Elsie.

These are pics of Garson Farm where i go for all my produce and go to Pick your own in the summer and an xmas tree display there. Sarah.

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Starting from number six there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

Only one day of photographs left.

What can you make of this tree ladies, from my cousins collection. Sue.

These photos are just some of the owls at the Rutland Falconry and Owl Centre. Merrilyn.

This morning I heard the the Goose that had woken us for the past few morning as I was feeding the Horses. When I checked the webcam there was one that I managed to get on the webcam. It was on the Lake for half an hour. I wondered if it may have been the Goose that lost he Goslings and Gander earlier in the year. For a change for as well as the Goose there were a pair of little Grebe and a few Mallard.

I spoke to Peter from the Lock this afternoon. On the 3rd or 4th of January there is going to be a talk at the Lock on the Wild Cat and we are going to broadcast it live on Wildlife TV. It will be a first for us. Although the webcams are all real-time live they all concentrate on on Animals and Birds. Never on humans. Peter is sending me a copy of the poster advertising the talk. I will put it on the Photo Page when I receive it. Peter or myself will keep you up to date with all the information.

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Starting from number one there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

Only one day of photographs left.

What can you make of this tree ladies, from my cousins collection. Sue.

These photos are just some of the owls at the Rutland Falconry and Owl Centre. Merrilyn.

This morning I heard the the Goose that had woken us for the past few morning as I was feeding the Horses. When I checked the webam there was one that I managed to get on the webcam. It was on the Lake for half an hour. I wondered if it may have been the Female that lost he Goslings and