Charlie doesn't seem to mind.

The sheep don't care as long as there is food.

I probably should have tried harder to get this in focus!

The kittens aren't really sure what to make of it.

If you have any suggestions, let me know.

]]> Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:20 GMT http://www.perldog.com/2008-04/67?rss Finally, Number 27 delivers the goods. We found the happy family enjoying the early morning sun.

No LambCam yet, sorry.

On closer inspection however, it was clear that both lambs were Nellie's, but since they had been born in the field, Tippet was keen to claim one for herself. Much bleating later, both lambs are now safely penned with Nellie to increase the bonding process and avoid "mis-mothering" - Tippet is still bleating! Hopefully she'll have her own lambs soon (although we're not entirely sure that she will).

The other lambs are doing well (and busy exploring outside now that their home as been invaded). Plus they now even have proper names - #27.1 is now 'Sawyer'

And #27.2 is now 'Kate'

]]> Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:35 GMT http://www.perldog.com/2007-04/2?rss An about an hour later, #27.1 has a sister - please meet #27.2.

You can keep an eye on the whole #27 family over on the LambCam

You can keep an eye on #27 and #27.1 (name coming soon) over on the LambCam

This year, things are a little less organised - we don't have precise dates like we have before, and that's not really helping much. For a couple of weeks now we've been checking on the sheep looking for any sign that something might be about to happen.

It looks to us like the current star (known to us as 'Number 27', but her friends call her 'baaa') could be due today - she's been a bit restless and has come into the stable several times during the night (we've been leaving them free to roam outside, rather than penning them up). This morning we decided to keep her in so we (and you, through the power of the internet!) can keep a closer eye on events.

You can check on her progress over on the LambCam.

They'll be staying inside for a little while longer, since they are pretty young. Here's a snap of them - Milly, Molly and Mandy (in no particular order!)

]]> Tue, 09 May 2006 17:11 GMT http://www.perldog.com/2006-05/intro?rss Please meat, I mean, meet Phil and Grunt, I mean Grant.

Stay tuned for the arrival of HamCam (although as you can see it might be difficult to see the pigs!)

Here's a picture of some of the quail.

Roughly one hour later, #6 came along...

Meanwhile Stacey (#3), Ruby (#4), Martin (#2), Sonia (#1) wait outside with Harlequin and Creamy.

This was our first outside lambing (Creamy and Tufty have been outside during the day) - luckily it's quite a sunny dry day. After everything looked ok, we quickly set up a second pen and brought Creamy and her lambs inside. You can check on their progress (and Harlequin and her lambs) on the LambCam.

In the meantime, Lambs #1 + #2 are doing just fine.

You can check on their progress over at LambCam

The lamb was up on its feet and trying to suckle within 15 minutes so everything looks good.

Fingers crossed there should be another one along shortly - keep watching!

I've also finally sorted out the camera - click on the preview below to get to the 'live' (updating) version.

* Creamy has been re-named Basil, because we have a sheep called Creamy too, and it was getting confusing. The new name was chosen because she has a funny walk.

Currently they are living in the stable, soon we'll introduce our other chickens and then we'll move them all outside to their new extended outside pen (complete with much larger chicken house and electric fence).

I'll try and get Lamb/Hen cam hooked up to the website properly soon, but here's a quick preview.

Should be just the job for the return of lambcam this year.

Turns out it's quite hard to take a decent photo of a TV, but I had a go anyway just so you can see roughly what it looks like.

BTW: If Sony ever go into the flat-pack furniture business, then I think IKEA should watch out - the stand was really well built and the instructions and labelling of all the individual bolts was really impressive (although I probably shouldn't be impressed by that sort of thing).

It came down pretty fast - this is what it looked like after just 30 minutes - there was no snow on the ground before!

This one has a bit more detail, but it didn't exactly hang around to let me take a better picture.

Apparently low flying helicopters aren't restricted to any kind of minimum height - they could in theory just hover a couple of feet over your back garden and you can't really do much about it - although when we did complain about them scaring the livestock, they happily told us you could claim £100 for every dead animal!.