Blog Entries from Craigard Croft
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Last Update: Saturday, August 3, 2019 - 09:09
"Bullshit" and it's synonym "bollocks" are common English expletives regularly used in response to nonsensical or misleading statements which have no concern for reality or the truth. Next week...
Somewhere near you?Sixty five years ago I had my first school chemistry lesson with, "Doggy Collins" a scary old Welshman. I clearly remember two topics that are relevant today, the gases...
At the end of February the UK experienced it's hottest ever winter day. On the same day there was a debate in Parliament on the climate change emergency.I counted 35 of our 650 MPs in the...
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...
