Our Animals
Our 'animals' are a real favourite with guests of all ages. To see our free range Aylesbury ducks wandering past your cottage door is one of the delights of staying here. We keep poultry, waterfowl, and pigs (usually during summer months only). Also rabbits and guinea pigs and new for 2011 our beautiful minature Shetland ponies. Guests are welcome to help feed them, pet them, and maybe collect eggs from the hens - we are trying to build up a laying flock of Light Sussex hens.
Our Shetland ponies are called Frankie and Snowflake and will be one in May. We got them in December and so have been getting used to them and they to us over the winter. We are hoping guests will be able to help groom them; as they are still "babies" they won't be able to offer rides for a few years yet!!
Rocky our Light Sussex cockerel is a gentle giant. He's very friendly and interested in everything that is going on. He has a couple of wives which hopefully will lay eggs during the summer months, so we can collect the eggs as well as have baby 'Rockys'.
Our Cornish game bantams have beautiful feather markings of brown and black.
Our white 'Jemina Puddleduck' Aylesburys are very popular with everybody. See if you can take a photo of them all in a row. They waddle along in a comical fashion, tending to follow the leader, usually Harry, our drake with the curly tail who keeps his five wives well 'in line'. They lay well during spring and summer when you can buy our duck eggs. We also incubate eggs during the summer months. The ducklings are so cute - they start off as yellow balls of fluff and you can see how they have grown day by day.
We also keep a number of Muscovy ducks. Arnold, our old boy, is a big fellow and doesn't fly much - or maybe he's just lazy. Our female ducks who tend to be called the 'black and white' duck and 'black duck with white head' (appropriate names are always appreciated!!) are smaller and lighter and can fly a bit more - especially if it is feeding time. However, they are not very good fliers and sometimes only just make the top of the fence! Their ducklings are black and yellow and are even cuter than the Aylesburys.
Our geese are (Mrs) Gandhi (our first 'animal!' acquisition) and named Gandhi until we found out she was a 'Mrs' and Nehru, her husband. Not quite right historically, but we like the names! Geese pair for life and can live for up to 30 years. We keep our geese behind fences in the fields, as they can be pecky, but where they make effective lawn mowers.
We managed to breed from our turkeys in 2010 - the babies were actually quite pretty and fluffy. Our daddy turkey, Timothy, can display his tail feathers in a beautiful peacock-like way and has even been accused of being a peacock!!
In the summer we often keep a couple of pigs, their antics are always very popular and they usually run over to the fence when they see you. They love a treat of banana skins or vegetable peelings. We usually get the pigs in April or May, but may not in 2011 to give us a break whilst we get used to our ponies!!
Our rabbits are Pickle, and Louise Midnight. Louise Midnight is beautifully big and black and has lovely lop ears. Although new to Trevorrick she's very friendly. Pickle our male rabbit is a few years old now and if he gets out he certainly moves fast! He's a lionhead rabbit and has an attractive 'mane' around the top of his head. My youngest son called him Pickle as when we got him and he was very young he used to escape frequently and I spent hours late at night on many occasions playing 'chase' around the fields. Despite several overnight outside 'sleepovers' in the early days he survived so he must be quite bright. We also have some guinea pigs. They are quite timid and like their shelter, but enjoy being petted when we get them out of their hutch in the morning.
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