Casalinho

Category: Animals

  • Our Week in Pictures: 29th September 2014

    Another busy week! Making up for the rain of last week we’ve been cracking on with the first part of our grape harvest and wine making. Harvesting and produce preservation continues, with tomatoes and quinces still being top of my processing list. Volunteer Marjolein has been filming this week, which has given Jeroen a marvellous more »

  • Our Week in Pictures: 8th September 2014

    It’s been another week of harvesting and processing. I’ve been making the most of the summer sun to dry as much as I can, with particular emphasis on things that can add variety to the animals’ winter feed. Left to right, top to bottom. 1. We discovered that the dead stalks of the parsnips we more »

  • Our Week in Pictures: 11th August 2014

  • The Mystery of the Disappearing Guinea Pig

    Last night there should have been 5 baby guinea pigs in the hutch when I went to lock up. But there were only 4. After emptying the hutch completely then meticulously sifting through the deep litter on the floor by hand, I eventually concluded that it had fallen out and been nabbed by a hungry more »

  • Welcoming Bambi

    I’ve been searching for the perfect Billy goat to join our little goat herd for some months now. My requirements were that he should be horned, and that he be large. Let me introduce you to Bambi, on the right. OK, maybe he’s not very large yet, but he’s only three months old at the more »

  • Tolerance 2: Goats Speak Up

    Living with the chickens is all very well. We can put up with being used as perches. But we really, really wish …. … that they wouldn’t crap on us!    

  • Tolerance

    Who would have imagined that goats could be so tolerant? Kylie and Beyonce share their morning corn ration with the rabbits.

  • Livestock means Deadstock

    Now isn’t that a depressing title for a post? But sadly it’s true. Keeping livestock occasionally means that you have deaths to deal with, and I don’t just mean the deliberate ones that end up on your dinner table. So far this season we’ve had four little goat kids born. But sadly only two have more »

  • Never Believe the Salesman’s Story!

    Please welcome the three newest members of the little Casalinho goat herd. Mrs Magoo, Beyonce, and Kylie arrived yesterday, and before you start sniggering, I did not choose those names!   This is Beyonce. She’s the biggest by a long way, and bigger than our existing goats too although more leggy.           more »

  • A Visitor’s Perspective: Musings on Goats

    This is part of a series of posts where we ask one of our volunteers or visitors to say a few words. The spectacularly named  ‘Horatio Lovejoy’ (he’s shy!!) has been volunteering with us for around 6 weeks now, plenty of time to get to know the goats.   A Visitor’s Perspective: Musings on Goats   more »