Product Reviews

We have been spending a lot of time enjoying our beloved wild bird population and I am so happy to say this week, a new species introduced itself to our feeder. It was much smaller than our regular female chaffinches so it caught my eye. With its spotty tummy and beautiful shades of green/yellow it truly was a wee stunner. My heart said, its a Siskin - but I want to be sure. So after a few photo's of it and thanks to the wonders of the Internet.

I can confirm it is a Siskin.

What brought this new species to my garden, is it the time of year? Is it a non-resident passing through? Or is it our new found product? I like to think it's the latter of the questions I raised.

As you know we are so passionate about our wild bird's and we wanted to make…

😂 well this is one of those subjects I never thought I would be looking into - but yes FAT BALLS!

Since opening our country store I have become even more enthralled with our local wild life and bird population and my driving passion into educating myself and others about how we can help keep our birds healthy.

We decided to add fat balls to our choice for our customers and as usual there is a mixed message and price associated with this. After further investigation it has now become clear that perhaps by wanting to help the birds and not spending too much money, we opt for the value choice. Hands up - I have also brought the bucket of balls for around £8-10 what did I notice - in my garden, they appeared to encourage the larger birds like, pigeons & sea gulls which wasn't my aim. T…

I've taken up a big interest lately enjoying the local wildlife and more importantly helping support there survival. I have been experimenting with different types of food and seeing which birds come in and feast, snack or pop in.

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I think Gold finches are beautiful, so vibrant and full of beautiful colours and make fab little noises.

If you want to attract these into your garden, I would high recommend our Johnston & Jeff Niger seeds - We sell these in large bags 12.75kg or 1kg bags. If your starting out and are also limited on space the 1kg bag is ideal for you!

By introducing Niger seed, within a few short hours I now have 6 regular gold finches on my feeder.

I like to say they are the wee bullies of the small wild birds - well mine definitely are, they sit on the feeder stuffing themselves…

Joe has been so excited to tell everyone about this product, it is a seriously impressive bit of kit!

Check out he wee review on it.

We spoke with the wonderful 'The Purple House Soap Kitchen', about possibly providing our horse lovers with a soap, which they can use all year round to help keep the ponies smelling sweet and fresh without removing their natural protection oils.

So has made this amazing soap on a rope! It creates a fab foam and rinses so leaving your horse soft and shiny.

Here is my wee video showing it, its also available to purchase with us on-line.