Posts By: Elizabeth

Chicks arrived!

21 days exactly and there was cheeping to be heard in the incubator. The rocker (which keeps them gently moving all the time in place of a hen moving and turning them) was turned off, the incubator elevated to the table for improved viewing and within 2 days we had 9 chicks. Not bad from… Read more »

Eggs at Easter – Boscrowan style!

Whilst most people are hoping for smarties or a kinder surprise in their easter eggs – we’re hoping for chicks and what we’re really hoping for are new girls who will lay blue and deepest richest chocolate brown eggs next year. There is so much more to this poultry lark than you could possibly imagine!… Read more »

Cornwall in colour.

  Out and about with my camera just last week  to two of our most local gardens. Trengwainton Gardens (NT) 15 minutes walk from Boscrowan and Trewidden Gardens – a 5 minute drive away, which are privately owned are looking wonderfully colourful at this time of year. So some of these spectacular sights I thought needed… Read more »