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Saw my girls have a go at a very live ferret/stoat that had got into their enclosure. Felt so sorry for it that I went in and got the girls off - it probably came back later to eat the eggs/chicks. Oh well.

To freeze my eggs I seperate them into yolks and whites - they keep better that way - and don't look as if they have gone off. Have you considered storing them in isinglass?

Welcome to ISH :flower: Spare time good, builders bad! Well, as far as the garden goes in my experience. They do tend to just dump stuff & flatten plants. :pale: The sheep milk interests me; can you make butter & cheese from it? MW Not sure how it will turn out! Once I get started, next yea...

Got Icelandic sheep (fleece, meat and hopefully milk) and Icelandic horses (definitely for lots of fun), 3 goats (last of a mob - gone on to sheep), chickens (ex battery and a young cockerel called Frank hatched at a local school who came to us to be topped when he got too big), veg patch which I'm ...