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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! |
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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! |
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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. |
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Osbaston Cherished CristobelMay 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 |
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Osbaston Champagne ClaraMay 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. |
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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. |
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Chicks and DucklingsMay 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. |
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A Shetland FoalMay 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. |
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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. |
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