Eat Your Heart Out Virginia McKenna

Those post Christmas jobs need doing today and even though I am working again tonight, the feed has to be bought, the pigs need a new bale of straw and the duck house needs a good scrub. I was up with the light and decided to sort out the "babies" of the field first thing.
The turkey poults, I gently lifted out of their house and with difficulty (their wings are pretty tough) clipped each one's flight feathers. Then to the strains of "Born Free" (I was humming not singing it) I let each one go into the "wilds" of the turkey enclosure.
Nothing much happened.....then again with turkeys....nothing much does happen, as the four new poults wandered around, circled gently by Boris in full "sail". I suspect they will all be ok together

The guinea fowl, I have placed into their own ramshackle run, to get them used to the field. As usual they have spent most of their time smacking their bodies against any hard surface in noisey hysteria, and two of the pretty blue/grey birds escaped to fly haphazardly over the Churchyard and hedgerows. By 9am, they had all returned together to be fed, so hopefully in a weeks time (escapes permitting) I will let them fend for themselves.

Jesus is still with us too, as no one has come to claim him. I Will contact the animal sanctuary next week to secure him a home. Now off to the feed shop, then I need to clean the patio of the carnage of dogs, snow and rubbish.......I need too to make a few lists out for the new Year.......Chris has kindly offered to buy me two new net fences in order to enclose the Churchyard loving hens.......soon the graveyard will be clear of poultry completely!