Osbaston House Farm: News

	Featured in The Times! May 2011: "Farm glamping is glorious, educational, relaxing and ridiculously comfortable" said Ben Hoyle in The Times after staying at The Dandelion Hideaway in April 2011. The Dandelion Hideaway does offer the ultimate glamping experience. Luxurious “country canvas cottages”, nestled into the idyllic Leicestershire countryside on Osbaston House Farm, offer fun for families and romance for couples. There are chic interiors, vintage touches and a roll top bath in the en suite bathroom, with lashings of hot water. Each sleeps six in two bedrooms, plus a "hayloft", and the well equipped kitchen includes a butler’s sink and a traditional range cooker. Availabilty over summer 2011 !
	Osbaston Dancing Dandelion April 2011: Osbaston Stud is pleased to welcome Osbaston Dancing Dandelion, stable name Dandy! Dandy was born on 21st April 2011; she is a beautiful cream dun filly foal with a white star.
	Bookings Being Taken! April 2011: We are open for bookings and have availability for the royal wedding weekend and Easter too! The Dandelion Hideaway offers the ultimate glamping experience. Luxurious “country canvas cottages”, nestled into the idyllic Leicestershire countryside on Osbaston House Farm, offer fun for families and romance for couples. There are chic interiors, vintage touches and a roll top bath in the en suite bathroom, with lashings of hot water. Each sleeps six in two bedrooms, plus a "hayloft", and the well equipped kitchen includes a butler’s sink and a traditional range cooker. Find out more!
	At Long Last! February 2011: After heaps of discussions, our family, friends, and regular holiday guests on the farm, will be pleased to hear, that we are ‘going it alone’ for the 2011 season! So many of you have told us what a great holiday experience you’ve had here on the farm, from couples who’ve enjoyed the romantic nature of the tents and the great gastro pubs to families whose children, mums and dads too, have had a ‘whale of a time’. So we’ve taken the plunge and we’ve ‘given birth’ to our own luxury camping brand for families, couples and friends, and we’ve named it ...The Dandelion Hideaway.
	We've Started Kidding Again! February 2011: Our Nanny goats have started kidding again, so we are expecting 150 goats over the next two months. It will be all hands to the decks with so many little ones around to feed and care for.
	At Long Last! October 2010: Peaches has finally foaled, incredibly late in the season so we'll need to look after him, a gorgeous cream dun colt foal born at 5.30pm on Monday 4th October. We’ve named him Osbaston Charming Chester. He is full brother to Peaches last foal, Bluebell and he is the double of her. Mum and foal are out in the daytime grazing and coming in at night to a warm stable!
	A Celebrity Glamper! July 2010: The utterly gorgeous Amanda Holden joined us on the farm for a wonderfully relaxed, carefree holiday.... Oodles of charm & impossibly glamorous....it was a genuine delight to host Amanda’s visit with her adorable friends and family. Turning her hand to milking goats, making bread in the outdoor oven & wheelbarrow races it was all far from the urban whirlwind & celebrity life of London! See Amanda's loaf, and register for details of 2011 holidays!
	Poultry Pin-Ups! July 2010: We’ve got some new hens. Sharon fell for some beautiful Bluebells, a lovely bluey, grey colour, very docile and pretty. Then there are three new white Leghorns, a breed of chicken which is very friendly indeed. Finally not forgetting the ever popular Rhode Island Red, a gorgeous rich red colour that glistens in the sun! A huge, luxury hen house is arriving soon so they’ll all have a smart new home in which to lay their eggs, and more space to roost during these hot summer nights. Come along on your farm holiday and see if you can work out who's who!
	Making Hay While... June 2010: The sunshine has bought the hay in early, it’s been ‘all hands to the deck’ as we rushed to make hay while the sun shone! At the end of a long, long day we’d worked fifty acres of land and produced two hundred large square bales of hay out of the Feather Down spinney and surrounding fields. Are you wondering how long it will take our charming goats to munch their way through that lot….well it will take just two hundred days! In a year we use about five hundred large bales, and to make this much hay we need nearly 120 acres of grassland.
	Osbaston Cherished Cristobel May 2010 : In the early hours on the 27th May, Tigerlily foaled, a beautiful, very small, red chestnut filly foal. Its Tigerlily’s first foal, the sire still lives on the Shetland Islands. We've named her Osbaston Cherished Christobel, or just Christobel for short. Click here to see more photos on Facebook
	Osbaston Champagne Clara May 2010 : Kerswell Maggie's filly foal finally has a name. As we are in the third year of the stud, it had to begin with "C". After considering many options, some suggested to us via Facebook, we've given her the name Osbaston Champagne Clara. She'll be known simply as Clara in the stable. Click here to see more photos on Facebook
	We're Featured in The Guardian! May 2010 : "Whether it's hen-keeping, biking, baking a loaf - or just loafing in style - a stay at Osbaston House Farm in Leicestershire is not your usual farmstay experience." This delightful article has been written about us in the Guardian. Click here to read the full article
	Chicks and Ducklings May 2010 : Our first ever chicks and ducklings have been born! The chicks were from eggs placed under a couple of hens which had gone broody. Some were from our own hens, others are Welsummer eggs given to us by John's aunt. The ducklings, from our beautiful white call ducks, were hatched in an incubator. Click here to see more photos on Facebook
	A Shetland Foal May 2010 : Kerswell Maggie foaled on Monday 10th May at 8.30am in the morning, a very civilised time! After a straightforward foaling, complications arose and the vet had to be called; the foal was looking very poorly and we feared the worst. However after battling for hours and a surely a miracle, I am pleased to announce that the filly foal is fine, out at grass with Mum and getting stronger. Click here to see more photos on Facebook
	Beatrix Bunnies Arrive on the Farm! March 2010 : Osbaston House Farm welcomes a delightful litter of buck rabbits. Flopsy, Mopsy & Benjamin Bunny are dwarf lop rabbits, all just 8 weeks old. Peter Rabbit is a Netherland dwarf and Cotton Tail is a rare old English spot both 8 weeks too! Thumper is the boss of the gang and the eldest at six months – a very pretty grey fluffy lion head. The rabbits will live together in the feather down paddock in their own home alongside the hens and will be cared for by the feather down children whilst they holiday here on the farm.