Blog Entries from Craigard Croft
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Last Update: Sunday, June 16, 2019 - 16:51
Colourful pre-industrial diversity surrounded by deep green desertIndustrialised agriculture in the UK began after WW2, until then we had traditional low input, low output farming, a time when...
The goats don't seem to mind the squatters My brown egg laying hybrid hens lay an egg a day at the moment, there's over 14 hrs of daylight and it's warmer. So each day they go looking for a nest...
Day 2 of sitting on the nest and not moving.... definitely broody!It's the end of May....... the start of the "broody" season.... Hens now want to sit on a clutch of eggs and hatch them....
Humans domesticated by goats 11,000 years agoEstimates vary but it seems that humans were first domesticated by goats between eight thousand and eleven thousand year ago in the mountains of Iran....
I should know better but last month I slipped half a dozen fertile duck eggs under a bantam hen with little hope of any hatching after the long, rough journey by mail from Shetland. Then, one morning...
I have worked with all types of farm animals during the last 60 years and the two most attractive are goats, they are intelligent, clean, efficient milk producers, small, friendly,...
Twenty years ago we were staying in a Canadian Alpine Club hut in the Rocky Mountains, the occupants were international but all European. The log hut was situated in a alpine meadow, there were vast...
These blog posts flit between North Northumberland and Kilchoan. Today it's a possible pine marten sighting in the West Wood between Harbottle and Sharperton. Elliot the Red Squirrel Group...
Some few thousands of years after the end of the last ice age (10,000 bp) a great wood extended across Scotland from the valleys of the Cairngorm plateau to glens of Lochaber in the west. The climate...
The earliest ancestors of my hens were domesticated in S.E.Asia over 5,000 years ago, these Red Jungle fowl lived in the jungle undergrowth and woody scrub that provided food, shade and shelter....
