Our Life At Denbury Farm 16th August 2018
The gosling with the angel wing definitely cant fly and look as if it will be staying with us at Denbury. It parents keep coming back to the lake in the hope it will fly away with them but unfortunately it is not going to happen. As much as all the geese bicker when on
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Our Life at Denbury Farm 28th July 2018
. The first pair of Canadian Geese with their single Gosling flew away yesterday. Another pair of geese that came to the new lake hatched 5 goslings and just four weeks later another pair came from nowhere with one gosling. The gosling defiantly couldn’t fly, how it got there or where the geese were nesting
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Our Life at Denbury Farm 28th April 2018
I thought you may like to see some our new additions. Our yearly Canadian Geese produced only one Gosling. Not sure if there were any more and they were victims of the crows or that one egg hatched early and the geese left the nest too early. It could even be that any other eggs
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Our life at Denbury Farm 14th April 2018
Two badger cubs with their mother came out of the sett last night, full of mischief causing their mother a few problems. The roe buck was feeding just a few feet from the sett entrance where they came out from. One of the cubs never seeing a deer before went to investigate, nearly touching noses.
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Our Life At Denbury Farm 26th March 2018
You can see that these two mothers are feeding young. The badgers from our sett and the vixen who comes to the sett for its regular feed. We reckon there are at least six badgers in the sett plus their cubs. As a bonus a buck roe deer losing his velvet. It’s going to be
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Our Life at Denbury Farm 18th March 2018
To our relief our Llamas have tested negative to TB. I must admit we are very surprised that not even one had it. More so with the history of bovine tb on the dairy farm next door to us, and that Llama are very susceptible to the disease. Not only is a good for
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Our Life At Denbury Farm 24th February 2018
I must be mad. Mrs Farmer had me up at 5.am to drive 25 miles to the RSPB Wetlands at Ham Wall, Meare this morning so she could do a little photography. The drive takes us across the Somerset Levels where in 2014 we had the major floods. First time that I have been
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Our Life At Denbury Farm 9th February 2018
Lots of different creatures like the Badger Sett and Badger removing old bedding We are having the wettest winter on the farm that I can remember in the 30 years we have been here. The fields are sodden, walking on them they quickly turn to mud making it difficult to walk
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Our Life at Denbury Farm 22nd December 2017
Some good news, By the way that the Badgers are acting and changing their sett bedding we reckon that there may be a pregnant sow in one of our setts. They had cubs last year in a satellite sett that was confirmed by Bobbie and Fox, who saw youngsters whilst protecting the sett during
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Our Life at Denbury Farm Blog 22nd November 2017
What I would like more than anything is for my farm blog to be happy, with nice things happening and nice thing to write about, but unfortunately with the filth that is about there always seems to be nasty things happening to the wildlife by evil people. The photographs of one of the two buzzards
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