How times have changed - in her previous corporate life, Tracey devised a "get-well programme" for her staff who were not pulling their weight - now a "get-well programme" is required for sick livestock!
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Despite all the loving care and attention, it seems that Dans' birds always think that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence!
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Despite paying ten times the budget amount on bird netting and spending two weeks in putting the cage together it has taken no time at all for the turkeys & chickens to peck it to pieces!
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The morning tour of the bird pound highlighted once again to us that "no matter what we do to rear healthy livestock and grow organic fruit & veg, we will always be up against Mother Nature"
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Within minutes of the turkeys being in the pound together and coming out of "cardboard city" they were trying to establish their pecking order.
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With a distinct lack of sunshine and the garden particularly wet from persistant rain the previous day & night we were limited as to what we could do in the garden.
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Another day of drizzle and as Dan was keen to have the new bird pens erected he spent the day cutting and stapling the netting to the framework.
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With the grass far too wet to cut now and persistent drizzle set in for the day, Dan started cutting lengths of wood ready for the turkey and chicken nursery pens.
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Following on from our turkey success of 2005 (albeit on a small scale), we decided to up the ante and not only raise them for ourselves but for neighbouring English as well.
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