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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Clare Beebe winds up her two part series on incubation with a timely article on rearing your newborn chicks and Janice Houghton-Wallace sets out the rules for a home-reared Christmas turkey dinner. Meanwhile Claire Waring is preparing her bees for spring, Dot Tyne covers lambing and shearing your sheep and Heidi Sands pays tribute to the proud history of the Clydesdale horse.
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The Rutlands have ‘inherited’ 2 free range llamas on their farm and, despite early reservations, now wouldn’t be without them. Claire Waring takes a close look at how to acquire your bees and looks at swarm control and Janice Houghton-Wallace explains that ‘You are what you eat’ goes for your chickens too.
Clare Beebe considers the ideal way to house your chickens and Janice Houghton-Wallace looks at natural incubation. Meanwhile Claire Waring considers what to look out for in early spring inspections as the apiary begins to get busy and the Rutlands weigh up the merits of keeping ducks. We also have both sides of the argument on micro pigs. Cute pet or potentially a threat to farming and a genetic frankinstein.
