Updates from the farm

Farm update — a fall in the hen house, a Telegraph mention and pumpkins for the hens

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The past few weeks have been a hard grind, with a few highs and lows… It didn’t start quite so well. One Sunday morning, I decided to mend a nest box, rushed into the hen h…

Farm update — autumn hens, solar power and our new website

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The hens are enjoying the cooler, autumnal weather, and it's lovely to see the fields filled with hens again. Last week, we spent several days moving them onto fresh grass, giving the areas they've been using a chance to recover. With very little grass growth over the summer, some areas had become rather bare, …

Mayfield free-range hens out on the grass

Farm update — lock the doors after Witney Feast

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My understanding is that my grandfather, Ralph Tibbetts, was the first in our family to keep hens. He was a baker who made the most fantastic lardy cakes and lived all 94 years of his life in New Yatt, near Witney. He initially kept hens and pigs after the Second World War to become more self-sufficient, and I …

James Lyall collecting eggs among the hens at Mayfield