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Tag Archives: chickens
6.8.39.
No rain, fairly warm. The big crab tree in the lane has failed to produce any apples, but found others with fruit. Blackberries still only in flower. Hazel nuts still solid inside. Inne’s cows due to calve shortly. Waterhens still … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged black slugs, blackberries, chickens, crab apple, dead cat, goldfinches, greenfinches, hawfinch, hazel nuts, rabbits, waterhens, weather
2 Comments
20.7.39.
Some sun in the morning, otherwise almost continuous rain all day. Impossible to do anything outside. Notice that hens always eat less in this weather. Top of hay under a few stacks is still dry in spite of the constant … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged chickens, Daily Telegraph, electricity consumption, goats, hay stacks, weather
6 Comments
17.7.39.
Warmish in the morning, thunderstorms & heavy rain most of afternoon. Picked first peas, about 1lb. Thinned out turnips, which are very good & look untouched by the fly. Began digging patch for greens, but too wet to do much. … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged chickens, newt tadpoles, peas, thunderstorm, turnips, water-snail, weather
3 Comments
11.7.[1]39.
Warm but not very sunny. Pricked out 90 wallflowers (flame). T. [2] thinks the lame pullet may have “the disease” (presumably coccidiosis) in which case it would be better to kill her. The infallible symptom is yellow dung, but apparently … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged chickens, goats, Kate, lame pullet, milk-yield, stawberries, wallflowers, weather
1 Comment
8.7.39.
Raining much of the day, a fine interval in the evening, very windy. Picked some more loganberries. One hollyhock beginning to flower. A few runner beans show buds. Tomatoes flowering, also several marrows. One or two snapdragons beginning to flower. … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged chickens, ducklings, egg total, hollyhock, limping pullet, loganberries, marrows, potatoes, runner beans, snapdragons, tomatoes, weather
3 Comments
5.7.39.
Hot. A short shower in the evening. Bergamot in bud. The white chick looks bad, & the pullet which is limping no better. A few loganberries ripe enough to pick. Started creosoting henhouse. Sowed radishes, cos lettuce, parsley. E. sowed … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged bergamot, chickens, cos lettuce, Eileen, french beans, henhouse, limping pullet, loganberries, parsley, radishes, weather
1 Comment
3.7.39.
Warmer, sunny most of day. Planted pumpkin (somewhat too late, & in a too shady position). Earthed up north[1] side of the maincrop potatoes. No gaps, but some very immature. Lifted tulip bulbs. One early potato withered up – trust … Continue reading
2.7.39.
Overcast most of day, a heavy shower in the afternoon, & cold enough to have a fire. Both the hens guarding chicks have begun laying eggs & the younger one showed a tendency to stray away. E. therefore put her … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged apples, broad beans, chickens, clarkia, Eileen, Full-o-Pep, gas, loganberries, strawberries, weather
4 Comments
14.4.39.
Cloudy, & a few small showers. Cold after dark. Saw two swallows (not martins). This is rather early for this locality & a latish year. No one else has seen any. All day cleaning out strawberries, which have not been … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged chicken feed, chickens, Muriel, strawberries, swallow, wallflowers, weather
7 Comments
