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Finally, over Easter we got a chance to meet Fiona and Andrew's new puppy - Davy the Labradoodle.

And as usual I never thought to get out the camera until the last day.

Needless to say Davy is now Meg's new best friend, which drove Jedda (she who must be the centre of everyone's universe a little bats). But Jedda coped better with Fiona having a new baby better than we thought she would (Jedda is quite convinced she owns Fiona!)

Still all dogs got on really really well - and slept really really well on Wednesday.

They are playing - I know it doesn't quite look like it.

I think Meg is working on the time old tradition of whip 'em when they are little and when they grow up to be 4 times your size they may not notice...

And the Princess is still trying to work out why...

We've now set up all the chook tractors - including the Deluxe one which contains the Kingswood Country Girls now (Thelma, Greta, Meryl and Teddles - okay so the last one is a stretch). But these chooks are impossible to restrain any other way - we've tried clipping wings, not letting them out until late in the afternoon and all sorts of other things - and we used to spend all day every day chasing them out of the salad gardens....

These tractors are great - we can wheel them to wherever we want the little flock to be - works great of a night after they've gone to sleep. And no more breakouts and no worries about rooster wars.

Strange bedfellows these days - the pairing of Sophia and Charles have moved back into the pen containing the Turkeys - I've got to try and get a photo of them altogether, but during the day they keep their various distances:

Imagine two little white chooks - about ankle height, and 3 very big turkeys - not that far off hip height and you've got a rough idea.

The turkeys love free ranging around (and this also gives me a quick opportunity to show some very healthy fruit trees - we've had an astounding apple and pear crop this year - bodes well for cider makers!)

Finally - after the Blue Moon last night (which is still pretty prominent tonight), the ducks didn't get much sleep so they spent most of the day dozing around the bath: