ethical WARES - a lifestyle blog
life, loves & living with rescued animals by a Vegan run family business in West Wales.
Monday 21 July 2014
Thursday 15 May 2014
Meet Charlie
Charlie is a BIG goat (far left in this picture). Very
big and incredibly strong.
He has a lovely nature but has a particular dislike of
having his hooves trimmed. And you can see in this picture Charlie, has
no horns. Oh dear, nothing to hold onto when attempting a pedicure.
The first time we ever attempted this Mike ended up
with bruised ribs. We’ve always since got the farrier, a man mountain, to
trim Charlie when he’s in to do the horses.
But the farriers not due for a while, Charlie was
limping so it was down to us this morning. Needless to say, Denise ended
up on the floor somehow trapped underneath Charlie! We did manage to trim
all 4 hooves, Charlie wandered off none the worse and we staggered off,
battered and bruised, but pleased the job was done.
Bless him.
Monday 10 March 2014
has Spring sprung?
Crocus & BumbleBee |
We’ve
just had a lovely Spring weekend down her in West Wales, the warmest of the
year by far.
The
first Celandines are now in flower around the edges of our fields, primroses by
the house will be full flower tomorrow.
A
bumblebee flew lazily by on Saturday (and then back again on Sunday) and for
the first time this year we had bats back flying around the yard Sunday
evening.
Our
‘senior’ horse Jeremy went out without his coat on and all the goats were
enjoying lying around in the sun in the yard.
Thursday 6 March 2014
Taking advantage !
Thursday 27 February 2014
Sun's out
Thursday 20 February 2014
Not far from us here
Following the recent storms -
seems no-one was immune to the damage caused.
Click here to read about how this nesting pair will have to have their nesting site rebuilt
Curtsey from BBC.co.uk |
Click here to read about how this nesting pair will have to have their nesting site rebuilt
we are very lucky
We
love living in the countryside of Ceredigion and being close to nature – very
close sometimes!
Last
night going into the office to make a last check of the emails, we found a
rather lovely Newt wandering around quite happily. We put him/her
outside, showed him/her the direction to the nearest pond and sent him/her on
her way.
We’ve
had bats in the house (found one asleep in the clothes peg bag once), every
Summer we have Swallows coming in and flying round the office. We had a
Sparrowhawk in one of our warehouses once, and frogs will often hop by.
All
rather splendid we think.
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