A Large Sack of Pig Nuts: Morning Rounds on the Farm

Описание: Today: feeding the pigs, topping up their water and straw bedding, checking in on Gerald and Gertie (pheasants with a personality clash), collecting and sorting eggs by breed, hardening off seedlings, and heading over to the flower farm to inspect the tulip beds, plant ranunculus corms, and check the tanacetum, lupins, alliums and hollyhocks.

0:00 Picking up pig nuts at the farm store
0:07 Carrying the sack down to the pig paddock
0:30 Good morning, Kevin and Ava
0:47 Breakfast time -- feeding the pigs
1:23 Gerald and Gertie get a handful
1:48 Water and straw check
2:32 Making fresh beds in the pig arc
3:36 Gertie: boy or girl? How to tell by feathers
4:45 Egg collection round
5:31 Sorting eggs by breed (Light Sussex, Rhode Island Red, Australorp)
6:41 Incubator update -- 11 days until hatch
6:57 Seedling tour: sweet peas, perennials & herbs hardening off
7:45 Over to the flower farm
8:41 Tulip disaster -- why are they so short?
9:32 Weeding & checking tanacetum, lupins, alliums, hollyhocks
10:55 Planting 100 ranunculus corms
12:42 New bed prep for delphiniums and planting anise hyssop
13:45 Ava's beautiful nest

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This is Muddy Puddles Farm -- a smallholding in the UK, Cornwall where we're working towards growing and producing as much of our own food as possible. I am doing a #OneYearOneChallenge and only eating what I can grow and/or barter for.

Music:
Anitra's Dance (Peer Gynt Suite) -- Edvard Grieg, performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, courtesy of MusOpen (public domain)
In The Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt Suite) -- Edvard Grieg, performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, courtesy of MusOpen (public domain)
Unity -- TheFatRat
   • TheFatRat - Unity  
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

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