We were farmers .... me ..."Mummy, can we go to the seaside on Sunday?" Ma ... "Yes, if it's raining."
Exactly what Roland’s parents used to say, and even then his dad would start getting edgy in the afternoon, anticipating milking. Â
By the time we moved to Suffolk and so within reach of the coast, we no longer had dairy cows ... nevertheless we had to get back in time for the pigs and chickens to be fed and for Ma to milk the goat. Just occasionally Mr Read who lived on the corner was kind enough to feed the pigs and chickens and milk the goat one afternoon so could go and see granny in her holiday caravan at East Runton 😎Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm getting really sick of shopping with Adsa now. I used to try and avoid them if I could but we're stuggling for delivery slots from anywhere else and they're the only place locally that has drive-through pick up. The click and collect service has been great and I'm glad we've had that facility but it's still at an average of 15-20 items missing each week, we've had out of date products (biscuits yesterday that were best before May ) and basically their food ethics are crap and misleading. How in this day and age is anyone still selling eggs packaged in plastic boxes? The latest batch of 'free range' eggs in their plastic box had shells so thin that the ones that were stuck to the box were impossible to remove without shattering them. I've looked up a few of their ethical labels from products too and they're fairly meaningless.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I get the Clarence Court eggs. Have a bit of trouble cracking the shells sometimes. Don't know anything about chickens, but really thin shells sounds like some sort of deficiency.
Either a calcium deficiency or very young or older hens whose ‘systems’ are not fully synchronised. If all thee wd ceggs from a particular flick have thin shells then it’s likely to be a dietary problem. We used to feed ours oyster shell grit as well as the ordinary dirt, as the oyster shell helped produce strong shells. I think modem feeds are supposed to have enough calcium content without supplements but  ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I get the Clarence Court eggs. Have a bit of trouble cracking the shells sometimes.
Don't know anything about chickens, but really thin shells sounds like some sort of deficiency.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.