Welcome to the Boswell Farm Journal
adventures, daily life, thoughts and reflections from the beautiful Sweetcombe Valley

Frankie the saanen goat - Womble in the background

Our two Saanen Goats (Frankie and Womble) are enjoying the luscious green grass.

We take them out of the field, and move them round the farm so that they can enjoy different menus!

Goats are ‘browsers’ and so enjoy a varied diet of whatever they can find to browse on!

Buzzards have been noted by our guests soaring above, truly benefiting from our tranquil location. Green Woodpeckers can be heard with their distinctive call, and when startled it then flies off into the trees showing off its distinctive plumage.

Tuesday – 7.30pm. There was a knocking noise at our glass interior front door. Standing there was a young vixen in the lobby. The fox was just stood there making full eye contact. As it moved slightly – still keeping full eye contact, I saw an injury on its back right leg – it then sat down.

I then rang one or two Animal Sanctuaries but there were no replies. I then contacted the RSPCA – when the inspector arrived he examined the young vixen whose injury to her back leg was very serious and it was infested with maggots. Sadly, he had to put her to sleep.

It is almost unheard of for a wild animal to come for help like that. I am only sad that she could not have been made better and returned to the wild.

Some of our guests spotted this Grass Snake sunbathing in the beautiful sunshine!

Grass Snakes are completely harmless.

A beautiful Sloworm was brought into our house uninjured by our young Burmilla cat. The Sloworm was male and aged about two years. We returned him to an area just beside our largest compost heap and he made a speedy exit into the long grass.

We know that we have Sloworms in our compost heaps.

We take care of them – did you know they are a protected species?