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It's a very strange time for us at the moment at Alledal Gård.

We've been here in Sweden for over 4 years, and during that time we have had some down moments, but mainly we've had a wonderful time trying to make a success of our little farm in Skåne. I have no regrets about coming to Sweden in the summer of 2006.

Now, I'm afraid, the end is nigh, and we are shutting down the farm. Over the last few weeks the chickens, ducks, and geese have found new homes, and hopefully in the next few days the goats will have new homes too. By the end of 2010 Alledal Gård will no longer be an active farm.

We've had some wonderful successes with the yellow ducks and the chickens particularly, and have found it to be incredibly rewarding. And for me personally, a fantastic way to switch off when I come back from work on my main job.

This is the beginning of a new chapter for us, and hopefully over the coming months we'll be able to share more of our plans for the future. If you've followed us over the years, many thanks, and I hope that we've brought some pleasure to you from our little corner of the Swedish countryside. 

 

 

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Skrivet av Stephen Baines   
2007-12-24

The traditional animal to do with Christmas in Sweden is the goat - the Jul Bok - well, we're having our fun with our own Christmas goats this year...

 

We knew that two of our goats were pregnant, and we had an idea that Mimi would be giving birth just before Christmas and Blåblomma would be giving birth some time after Christmas.

Sure enough, earlier this week, on the 21st December, our Mimi gave birth to two lovely babies.

Mimi's kids

What we weren't expecting was to go out this morning for a walk with the dog, and find Foxglove (barely a year old) giving birth in the field!

Seems the Christmas story is alive and well, and Foxglove - supposedly a virgin goat - decided the Christmas story was a wonderful inspiration to her, and despite not having shown any signs of being pregnant until we went out at 10am this morning to find a baby goat hanging out of her, decided Christmas Eve was the ideal place to have a baby, and she wasn't going to have it in the stable, because that was already full with Mimi and her babies.

Mother and baby are now inside, her mother is showing her how to look after her youngster, and order is back!

Foxglove and baby

Meanwhile, whilst wrestling Foxglove and her baby inside, the other goats decided to launch the great escape and head off for the forest. The prison guards rounded them up, and got them back into the field :)

 
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