hi kim chickens are doing great had them out in the garden for the first time today,one a bit cheeky and the other two quite placid,cant wait for our first egg.glad we got them i think were goin to have a lot of fun.amber,sarah and alex are beutaful.robert and morag xx

Hi Kim

Thanks ever so much for today - the girls have settled in well - the dogs aren't too sure just yet, but I'm hoping the novelty wears off - the eldest dog couldn't care less though. The girls have just been put to bed we have named them Barbara, Betty and Diane - will see you soon!!

Emma & Ross xx

we are having so much fun with them and they are adorable!..as we speak one is sitting on my shoulder and the other one is on top of my head!!!
they are doing really well and we are very happy to have them.

hi sally i miss you so much when i come I hav to show you buddy we got a toy westie delivered to school 2 days ago and weve to make him famous so i could bring him to feufield and well i miss you so much say thanks to kim

P.S thanks for the homemade dohnut

...with our new legbar chicks!
When we arrived at home mummy gave them some food and water and made up a new hot water bottle for them. I helped to find them a nice teddy bear to snuggle up to..and we had them out and they love sitting on us and getting stroked!!

They are sooooo cute!!!!

kisses for Taz! Hope he is feeling better soon!

Holly xx

It's now 3 weeks since Susie, Rosie, Hendrix and Penne arrived and they have settled in well, with the 2 collies and us. They have a nice big run and cosy coop - but come rushing to the gate to get out into the rest of the garden for bug hunting, as soon they see us coming! The time has flown and we have been enjoying spending much more time outdoors - having breakfast with them and just watching them wander aound - it's very relaxing. So far Susie has given us 15 delicious eggs - including a 90gm double yolker. We think we have easily have room for another 2, so we'll be back in touch soon. Thanks for your help. best wishes to you all, the Sidneys

Hiya Kim, Caroline and all the amazing animals,

First we would like to say thank you to Caroline (for showing us around), Kim (for being a great help and also telling us what to do) and the animals (for letting us see them). We thought that your farm is the best place ever and we also enjoyed all the animals, Patrick thought that all the animals were very cute he also thought that they very funny. He also adored Sally,Toby,Taz, Lama's and the cute ducklings.

We can remember all the animals such as Sally,Toby,Taz,Spotty,Dever, Helen and Hannah.

Our Chickens that We bought today are amazing and we called the dotty and speckles, They are getting along amazingly with the other chickens lottie and feathers.

we are very excited to have our birthday parties at your amazing farm.

Goodnight all the animals, Kim and Caroline, See you all next time.

Your Sincerely,

Mia and Patrick

Hi Kim

Just a quick note to let you know that the girls are doing great had to modify run though as fox was showing a healthy interest but they have settled in great and are growing like mad think the sussex may be turkeys there get bigger by the day. Thanks for all your help and advice.
regards ian & margaret

thanks to Kim and all the lovely animals!

Holly can't stop talking about Toby, Taz and Honey!!
She knows all the animals names by heart and she loves them all!

We can't wait to come down to the farm to collect our legbar chicks to add to our flock!!

Have a great weekend and thanks for everything!!

Lots of love
Holly + Nicole

PS:
We have found a very fitting solution to an age old question about chickens. We hope you'll like it as much as we do:

Why did the chicken cross the road??

To get to FEUFIELD!!!

Kim - Thank you so much for your warm welcome and kindness.The two chicks have settled in immediately and they are getting on with the Bantam Orpington wonderfully well.Andrew will help you all he can - just contact him.The house they had hoped for by Dunoon has been sold.They are so disappointed.They are looking for a 4 bed detached house ( old if possible )I will call in and see you when I come to Biggar but will always ring first.God Bless.Give my love to Caroline and please thank her for the coffee.

Thanks for your hospitality on Sunday and what an interesting visit for the children especially with the birds of prey.
Looking forward to sampling the jams and chutney too.
Thanks again for the magnet gizmo. Cant wait to try it out.
See you again soon.
Fiona & Adrian

Lovely to meet you and your family yesterday - the onion marmalade is soooo lovely - I'd eaten a quarter of it straight from the jar with a spoon before it got near any toast. And my little boy Billy is still talking about the cockerel! Hope to see you again soon.

Hi Kim, Jackie

My four plucky girls are setteling in nicely here in Yoker,we've called them Foghorn, Leghorn, Specky & Gus. Speckey is the most brazen wee birdy you could ever meet. We've likend her to the famous grouse from the whiskey adds, glad we decided to add her to our intended flock of 3.
The girls like their eglu and I've got plenty of chicken poo for my compost bin. Leghorn hasn't produced an egg yet, but my husband tricked me well with one from the fridge. Much laughter was spent at my eggcitement.
I've already got orders from friends and family.
My feathered foursome provided great entertainment this afternoon chasing each other around the garden fighting over juicey slugs and snails. Leghorn is thick, you would think being bigger and 3 months older, she would be the most dominant, well no! The other 3 blitz attack her and she struts away with a dazed expresion on her face. My cat Smokey thought she'd sneak up on the girls, but thought better of it when they rounded on her, beaks pecking and wings flapping.

Thanks again
Kirsty

Greetings from France!The jams had a safe trip home and were only given to the family a few days ago... At least, I didn't eat all of them... I could have, the one I've tried is just so nice! Have a nice summer!

Hi Kim and Jackie

The girls (Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte) are settling in well and loving their new home in Stirling! They took a couple of nights to get used to the ladder but have got the hang of it and have usually put themselves to bed by the time we go out to shut them in for the night.

Miranda (calder ranger) is proving to be the top hen, giving the others a wee peck on the bum to let them know who's boss! We have as you warned become chicken bores are are driving everyone else daft talking about our 'girls'. However think we may ahve inspired some people to get hens and have passed on your details. Dave is particularly protective over them and has now decided to build onto the run making it full height (having a problem with a local cat who is a bit too curious!)

look forward to seeing you soon - the craft days sound good will try and come down.

Sarah
x

Hi sally wish i could come up but my dads the one with the car not me I miss you so much

hi kim,

had another fab day with you on tues. angie loved it and fraser enjoyed it too in his own way!!
i had strawberry and vanilla jam on my toast for my breakfast this morning and it was lovely!!!!

see you on sunday with my rabbit's!

janet

Dear Kim,
Thank you so much for the much welcomed and valued visit to your glorious Farm. The children in my care that morning had the most memorable visit and I have already reccommended the hands on experience your farm gives to everyone visiting. As Chairperson of The Clydesdale Childminding Association I will add your business to our website and on our return after the school break will dedicate a meeting with Clydesdale Childminders to discuss the experience visiting your farm brings to children.
Thank you for your heartfelt, warm welcome. The children came away with big smiles and many stories.
Kind Regards
Alison Johnson
Chairperson
Clydesdale Chilminding Association.

Hi Kim and Jackie,we picked our 4 babies up from you on sun 6th,June and they are now 7 weeks old and thriving.We love watching their antics and have named them accordingly...Miss Adventure,Miss Chief,Miss Fit and Miss Lay! They're adorable and collectively we call them the Scamps!

Best wishes

steph and mike.

Hi sally i love you so much i wish you were my dog! he he cant wait to see you next time me my mum and dad are going to buy eggs and sally if you know when is the guinea pigs gettin oot hope lara and the lamas arent chasing you aboot the place again love kim

hi sally today i was at the fordge but to me and you its a big pyrimdy thing anyway I was telling my rabbit shadow about you and she looked at me with her ears pricked as if to say ok all ears open about this sall dog he he oh saly i love you to bits so i wrote a little poem for you
Sweet as sugar
All the fun you can have
Loves to run and fastest on feufield
Lovely white and sleek black
Yearly licks and cuddles I love you sally

Hi sally hope you and taz liked your prezzie and bruce is lovely and i love your jam munch munch he he

Quiz:what do you like better
A ball B.puppies C.the animals on fuefield

one little question were you a puppy when you came to fuefield love kim

hi kim, i thought your place was ab fab!!! so clean tidy and friendly, can't believe i was there for so long only meant to be popping in for half an hour!!!
had a really good time, you have an amazing place and i know my rabbit's will be happy bunnies when they move in.

janet

Hi sally soory couldnt make it today my mums got a party to go to but hope to see you tommorow hope you have fun with taz and bruce

hi sally yesterday my niece brooke came over and i told her about you and she likes what ive told her and shes got a chiuhua called chloe hope to see you on saturday

question? are you the only collie on the farm

Hello Taz,here's a fiver to start you off.We love feufield-maybe we'll bring you a doughnut next time.

We realy enjoyed our time with you all this afternoon. hope it will not be too long before we pass your way again and we will bring our 2 puppies with us !!!
Best regards.
T & D

We had a wonderful visit to Feufield today and made new friends. The place is fantastic and the banter was great what great hoasts!!.
Its a must for the people who want a bit of the rural life to come and live and see for them selves.

I visited Feufield on the 5th June with a friend and left with some three week old chicks! I am pleased to report that Bluebell, Daisy and Marigold have settled in well and are growing fast.
We really enjoyed our visit and hope to be back soon!
Lesley x

Hi girls, Great web site. Glad to hear that everything is going well. A dream come true for you both - very proud of what you have achieved and we're sure you will continue to carry on your good work for many years to come. Give our love to all the animals/birds. Hope to visit one day. Much Love

RE:4 Chick's 23 May 2010

Hi, Firstly I would like to say that our first vist to Fuefield was most wellcome the whole aura of fuefield was that of visiting an old friend which was clearly natural and comfortable, once again thankyou, I'd also like to let you know Molly, Masie, Maggie and Minnie have almost doubled in size, Jean our one and only old Hen sits by the A-Frame and when Mildred and Maude our cats go by Jean lets them know that this area is out of bounds, so dont think there will be any issues there.

Regards

Norah

What a weekend! I feel as though my feet have hardly touched the ground. Well they didn't for a while -one minute I was walking across the yard minding my own business then next thing I knew I was travelling in the back of a car with two rather lovely young girls (Cinders and Blanche). We turned up at a new place which had two equally lovely but more grown up girls called Glenda and Gwendoline. I thought Glenda was mad at first as she ran round the perimeter of the garden squawking her head off. On the other hand Gwendo took an instant shine to me!! The two younger girls are having a bit of a hard time with the incumbent hens, so I'm having to divide my favours between the two pairs. At night I have to sleep between them to stop any sly pecks. Things are settling down though and I'm enjoying visits from the neighbours who are bring scraps and throwing them in for us. I reward them by standing on the chicken house and giving them my best cock-a-doodle-doos, nice and early to get them all up for work. Hi to everyone at Feufield. Nigel x

We called on Sunday to collect Peanut. Poor thing is having a hard time getting her place in the pecking order, but is obviously an independant free spirit at heart!

got four chickens a couple of weeks 2 have started laying. eggs are great. Chickens are really friendly and answer to their new names. great day out cheers

Just to say we are delighted with the hens we got from Feufield and really appreciated all your help and advice.Great place and great chutney !

Visited Feufield about 3/4 weeks ago to buy 2 laying hens. Came back with 4 11 week old chicks! Gorgeous wee things. Effie (smokey blue), Mavis(Calder Ranger) & Sam & Ella (White Sussex). Amazing how much they've grown but a welcome addition to our family. They are fantastic. Thank You. We will definately be over to vist soon. Peter & Angela McDougall & Family. XXXX

Hi,

Need cheering up?

I certainly did on thursday, so I decided to make a long overdue visit to Feufield, not realising that open days are weekends.

What a lovely warm,friendly welcome! After a brief, but most entertaining introduction to the " Feufield" family, a very refreshing cup of tea, and sympathy from Kim,Taz and Mustang Sally, I left feeling so much happier.

Thanks everyone!!
I have sampled Fifi & Etienne's Strawberry & Vanilla jam,Taz's Onion Marmalade, and devoured Mustang Sally's Raspberry special(gosh,and it's only Sunday). DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As promised I am bringing John today so we can both be properly introduced to to the family.It's a gloious day in Bo'ness.

Cheers
Tricia Rennie

Dear Kim - I said I'd let you know how the egg-sitting went with our teenage Wyandotte broody, and I'm afraid it wasn't well. She gave up on the eggs last week after some erratic dithering, and we had to scrap those lovely Legbar eggs you gave us as cold. Great shame, but I reckon she was just too inexperienced. We'll try her again if she looks determined. On a brighter note, the chutneys are superb and long gone. We'll be coming for more soon. Janice and Jonathan

Thought i'd post a comment regarding the jams & chutneys. My dad Hunter Murray (Lanark Market) brought quite a few of them home for the family to try and I must say they were all delicious, loved the jars they were presented in aswell. Hopefully i'll get the chance to visit the farm sometime soon.

Chicks are fine, know where i can get any emus?

Hi Kim and Jackie
We wanted to let you know our new girls are settling in very well. We can't believe how much they have grown in a couple of days. Our girls absolutely love them too, Emily has named her Calder Ranger Melissa and her light sussex is called sarah. The rest are patiently waiting for their leg rings to arrive before being named. We are now hoping for better weather over the weekend so we can all go out in the garden to join them. Take care and looking forward to hearing from you once our legbars have hatched out. Then our family will most definately be complete!!!
kind regards
Moira, David, Emily, Lily and Ritchie x

Just a quick note to say how happy I am that my latest additions (2 Rhode Rocks and 2 Calder Rangers) have quickly settled in to their new home and are enjoying life (as is witnessed by my newly decimated gooseberry bush and non-existent strawberries). I haven't started on the chutney yet - I'm saving that for the weekend!

Hi Kim and Jackie, just a wee note to let you know that our 3 new girls have settled in well and have claimed the new coop as their own! Will see you in a few weeks to add to our family - will definately (maybe!) stop at 10! What was that you said about it being addictive?!
Thank you two ever so much for all your encouragement and support, Feufield is a treasure and I'm glad I found you!! Lynne x

Thanks to delivery of a fine hen house from Mr Vayse, the hens are now "RE" installed in their new home.
It's lovely and they are all saying thanks for the eggstra space!!!
See you soon.
Nesta

Hi Kim & Jackie, Just to let you know that Meg and Gill (no we're not chickens! old hens maybe) arrived back home safely last night (Sunday) after our lovely weekend visit to Feufield Cottage - looking forward to visiting you again in the not so distant future. You are great people and have such a wonderful place, the birds and animals are a delight. All the best to you all.
Meg and Gill xx

1 hen laying fine, other 3 should start soon, they are called dancer, snowie, freckles,

Hi Kim & Jackie
Girls arrived home safely; and are now tucked up in bed.
Pecking order sorted already.

Here is the Blendbetter information for feeds
www.blendbetter.co.uk
01228 791608

Thanks again
Jim & Wilma

Hi Kim and Jackie, just to let you know the three chooks have settled in well to their new home. My other girls have sorted the 'pecking order' so no problems with them. Many thanks for your hospitality during my visit and I am looking forward to a return visit for your Open Days at Easter. Thanks again, Jim.

Hiya. Just to let you know that 5 of our eggs have hatched. 2 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and 1 late starter today.(Tuesday) We thought 6 of the eggs had taken but 5 outta 6 aint bad! Will be back for more soon!!! See you at easter - Shonice & Robbie X

Hi Kim and Jackie,

Thanks for our new Legbar babies. They are in the dining room with a lamp on them.

Your farm is fab and we always love visiting you both and all the animals.

I will let you know how we get on with the eggs. Fingers crossed they will hatch healthy.

See you soon.

Julie, Paul, Big Louis, Rona, Jean Luc and Little Louis

ps your Feufield jam is delicious

Hi

Just thought I would give an update on my ex Feufield girls. We collected 2 sussex girls last year then came back to get another 2 girls, needless to say we left with 6 more, speckledys, calder rangers and smokey blue, all x 2) All our girls are doing well and are great layers. Will be back soon!!
Thanks Jill & James

Hi Kim,

Hope you are all well at Feufield!

Just trying to send you guys some pics from our photo shoot from last month with Toby. Charlotte has left Centre Press now, and seems to have taken your email address with her! Would you mind emailing me so I have your address?

Cheers, Janet.

Hi Kim and Jackie - Thanks for all your help and advice on getting us set up with a great chalet and run and lovely hens - they are settling in well and I am enjoying getting to know their different characters! We are planning to let them explore more of the garden from this weekend which will be fun. The eggs from Feufield were delicious and we will be looking forward to our own before long hopefully. Keep up the good work. Fiona

we had our girls for 4 weeks now and we have had more than 70 eggs ...Yesterday one of our speckeldy hens layed a 75 gramm (2.6 ounces)egg and it had 2 big yolkes in it! Mummy used it to bake a lovely cake for us! The hens eat out of my hand when I go and feed them their corn in the afternoon. They also like digging for slugs! I am so glad that we have our hens now as I love them very much!

Hope to see you all again soon
Holly xx

Just to let you kinow that the girls - Buffy, Cordelia, Willow and Anya are all absolutely gorgeous - they started laying just before Xmas and they are laying really well - one question though - is it normal for them all to sleep in one egg box on top of each other - there are three boxes and 3 roosts which they ignore!
I can't wait for the good weather to get back down to see you - you do my heart glad. I also think you should go on facebook and then I could share you...
Love & hugs
Kate Carle

Hi Kim
Just thought I would say it was lovely to visit your farm last Saturday and my girls have settled in really well loving there new home. I am infact already increasing the run size and hope to come over with the next few weeks to get 2-4 more girls. The calder ranges and sussexs. Look forward to seeing you soon and hopefully bring my husband this time to xx

Hi Kim and Jackie,
The website is great and Feufield is really flourishing! Can`t wait to come up and see you again and witness all the hard work you have put into your lovely home and beautiful animals. Kids send big kisses to all, especially Tiny Taz! :-)Miss you, Helen x

Today my mum let me out to check on the chickens. I was all excited to see them again as they are very friendly. They always come to say hello and they will eat out of my hand. I opene the lid of the nesting box and there I saw it: a perfect little brown egg! It is the first egg I have ever found and I was very excited. I think I will ask my mummy to cook it for dinner tonight.
Before we left we got our hen out and gave her a big cuddle and said: Thank you lovely hen for laying this wonderful egg for us!
The hen was very proud of herself too.
Now I can't wait to go back outside to find more eggs soon......

Hi!!

Holly and I wanted to say a big thank you to all of you lovely ladies at Feufield! We had yet another great day and we were lucky enough to take some lovely hens home with us!! They seem to like their new home! They had some food, a good drink of water and are off to sleep now. I already checked on them a million times!!
We hope to see you all very soon again!!

Holly + Nicole

PS: Big kisses and cuddles for Taz, Jessie, Sally, Honey, Lara...etc etc!!

Hi Jackie & Kim,

Love the website especially the picture of Taz, i'm going to sneak him home with me one day :-) really looking forward to Saturday night see you then.

Suzi x

Hi
Lovely to see you both this morning - will be bringing as many as I can to another of your fantastic open days!
See you tomorrow.
Jill, Rog, Sophs and Ru xx

Hi thank you for showing us around Feufield.Our hens are just fantastic and your help and advice very helpful-we shall certainly be back for more hens as we expand our flock-best wishes T S

Hi Kim & Jackie, I can't beleive you have found your way to the 21st Century!! Kicking and screaming no doubt!!
We are very pleased that other people now get the chance to share in your wonderful farm!
Megan always loves seeing you and all the animals when we are up at Shona and Chris' and I alwyas enjoy the eggs.

See you when we are up in February and introduce Baby Oscar to the joys of farming!

Best wishes

Helen, Carl, Megan and Oscar

Hiya, Just to let you know that the first one of our eggs hatched this morning. It was one of the blue ones that we weren't sure had been fertilised. Another one has a crack so Im sure her sister will appear tonight some time tonight. Will send you pictures soon. Florence (the boss) Isa, Babs and Tikka are all fine too and well settled. Only a few more weeks before the possibility of eggs from them. They now have the run of the full garden and the cats make sure they don't stray too far! Hope to see you both soon. Shonice, Robbie & Rebecca

JUST WANT TO SAY THANKS FOR SHOWING MY HUSBAND AND I ROUND THE FARM,IT WAS LOVLEY I LIKED JESSIE THE DUCK SHE SO CUTE AND THE EGGS WE BOUGHT FROM YOU ARE NICE WE DEFINLY BE BACK FOR MORE EGGS

Hi Kim, Just to let you know my new hens are settling in well and becoming quite tame. Some will even eat out of my hand.

I have named them Henrietta, Matilda, Chantelle, Jemima, Gertrude, Vera, Marjorie and Molly.

My new website which dad and I built is at: www.crazichicken.co.uk

Love from Euan

Hi, the 2 hens have settled in fine, no-one seems to notice there are new girls in the flock, I think our old "girls" must be colour blind. Tony says thanks for the cake it was lovely.
see you soon
regards
Val and Tony Hamilton

Hi there

Just wanted to post a thankyou for your advice, help and patience with a complete hen novice.

Our three girls - not that you'd know from their names... Harry Potter, Dumbledore and Hagrid (as Finlay, our 3yr old son is adamant that they are boys, as girl hens are 'naughty') are settling in nicely, and we've had one very small egg from one of them yesterday, which was a thill...

They're being let out on the 4th to explore the garden proper, and then the fun will really begin!

Hope to see you both next weekend at the roast - thanks again.

Kind regards

the Craigs

Hi Kim and Jackie,

Just wanted to thank you again for all the helpful advice you gave us prior to purchasing our hens.

Rita, Sadie and Martha all made the journey safely and we have been rewarded with 3 eggs so far and it's only their first full day in their new home. What can I say but the girls done good!

Thanks again and we wish you both the very best for the future.

The Bosses.

Hi Kim & Jackie,

Thought I'd just let you know how very well Gertie (Gertrude) and Tilly (Matilda) and the quail are settling in. I'm now collecting the covetted blue eggs from G&T (without the help of a gin & tonic) and ten eggs per day from the quail. I'm really happy. I alsp thank you for the lovely day my parents and I spent with you when I collected the girls.
The produce we took home was also first class.

I wish you much, well deserved, success in the future.
Will visit again ASAP.

Isabelle

Love the web site, Feufield looks a really beautiful place. Continue on with your caring of animals, birds etc., it is important work. We are proud of you.

Love

Pat & Sue

Would like to thank Jackie & Kim for all their help and advice with our new 'family additions'. Good luck and every success with Fuefield!
Best Wishes, John and Dianne (proud new parents!)