Now I grew up in the country and over the years have handled many snakes. Ok, I was never a big fan, but I was always comfortable around them. Until tonight that was. Brenda called me up to one of our raised vegetable beds where she had placed a tarpaulin to keep in the heat and progress the compost. Watch…
This evening when putting the turkeys away I heard the churring of nightjars across the valley. Since moving to Dodpen we have heard them every year, and it is wonderful that they have returned once again.
The hatchery Building goes up today. Finally, Heritage Turkeys get its totally dedicated hatchery building. Ok, it is essentially two stables and a tack room, but as a combined unit it offers the space and flexibility for our incubators, hatching units and heated pens. It is located next door to my office so we finally have everything together to manage…
Today we acquired a pair of British White turkeys and these are to form the nucleus of a new breeding program at Heritage Turkeys. There is so much that is unknown about these delightful birds and it is going to be interesting to undertake background research to find out more about them, and to initiate a breeding program to ensure…
Our first Buff turkey chick hatched today and it I am absolutely delighted as it is healthy and strong. This is such an important event given the critically low numbers of this delightful variety. Excitingly there are a few more Buff turkey eggs pipping as I type, and at last candling, all the other eggs from this group appeared fertile.…
The Buff turkeys are laying which is brilliant news given that this particular variety is down to very low numbers and has in fact almost disappeared completely. We are desperate to save the Buff turkeys and scoured the UK looking for birds to improve and develop our line. Sadly even after all our searching and miles travelled we only found…