We bought two HUGE animals to work on our Chateau Farm

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The chickens are going to get such a shock in the minute they’ve never seen animals this big the other day Mark sent me an advert from the internet from the French uh Leon kuang is the French Craiglist basically so a big mistake he likes to send me um adverts

From this Farm where they have rare breed animals and um normally I roll my eyes and go oh Mark we can’t possibly take a an ostrich right now or something like that I think we could do actually but this time I fell in love the next day we went to visit them and

The day after that we agreed to buy them we have bought two new no two new animals and Mark is to say the least apprehensive and they are not easy animals to transport or set up for we’ve never had them before and I’m going to keep you hanging and see if you

Can work out what they are as we build the park for them they’re not [Laughter] hamsters where do we need to keep the hamsters then how big do they need their park to be Clore depends on the size of the hamster I would say well you’ve seen the Hamer good pretty

Big um I my favorite and what I’ve always envisaged has been this bit down here and it’ll be near the house so that the hamsters can see us because they’re very well habituated to humans um we might need something bigger actually but should we start with this

One because the thing is the lady who owns them isn’t very well and she needs to get rid of them quite quickly um so we suddenly week has been turned on its head and we’ve got to suddenly build a a a massive Park I’m sure you going to leave that no

No we’re just above of the world famous sewage ponds um and it’s quite a a steep slope which makes it a bit annoying to maintain because uh we can’t do it with the tractor and the shredder cuz it’s too steep so we have to cut the brambles

With the streamer and so Amy’s idea was that it would be really handy to have some animals grazing over it to keep it nice and clean hamsters hamsters for instance and the Very uh convenience thing is that last year we piped uh an old syst that’s under the loan behind

The Chateau to collect the rain water from the roof which means that we have a big supply of rain water immediately accessible for animals that drink a lot uh like hamsters and um and we have basically everything at hand we’re not far from the house so we can keep them in sight

And also we have this old feature that we’ve been uh we are trying to to recreate which is this wall uh right below the loan of the chadow which is called the haha ha exactly a haha also called sodu in French which is Wolf jump is a feature

That’s often found in big Estates and it designed to create a visual continuity between the formal garden and the loone and a meadow further back where you keep livestock it usually consists of a wo and a ditch that give continuity in the line of sight between the loan in the

Formal garden and the meadow further back where the lifestock is Kept We got a big penil Sh I went to the Village to buy some insulators and wire for the for the fence just need to screw them now Okay EXC one There I go get a pose Mark yeah I just I’ve got that one there to do we’re good Man What now I need to put the the wire and then we’re Done E That’s when uh one roof cable and now annoyingly I thought I bought a kit for a double door but there was only one so I need to get another one it’s really cool man do I think yeah it’s really good I got another uh set of uh for the gate so

I can double the Wire what up Okay what wa we’re going to get the hamsters Now You need p on the Y N W Our audience we have um two hamsters in the back and we’re back toia went Prett smoothly can you see them on the Road darling they’ve just turned onto the driveway are you very excited clel I [Laughter] need here they come Darling How are they that really cute clont doesn’t want to see them I think he’s a bit nervous electri you’re not going to be the biggest anymore soon you’re not going to be the biggest have you seen the hamsters I saw one little face peeping out not sure what Mark’s running around

Doing but something with electricity I think the chickens are going to get such a shock in the minute they’ve never seen animals this big oh no we’ve had horses here occasionally through visits but I don’t think they have will you back off such a bad boy

Today app the rats just let bait off my trap and caught my rodent battle we need Dumber rats or smarter traps we going to taste hello gorgeous that’s M beautiful hello hello don’t worry good maybe come in and and close the door really to come into the space with

Them yeah yeah yeah come in step in and cl the door bye Amy hard not to use their horns to pull yourself up on hello gorgees There she go oh beautiful can put the rope in um in her ring yeah come little One just check that wasn’t pepper coming out that CL come on come come on I don’t know what words encourage all right who you start going down and I sure [Laughter] follow the chickens they’re not sure about is [Laughter] it [Laughter] wish I kept the chickens in this morning her name Isel yeah

Oh Bravo zel quite long yeah the biggest dog you’ve ever walked yeah I they don’t kick I like PES so should worry about behind can you close the there electricity so which do I grab the black yeah all right broken chicken one that was a little bit no

Wor that really cute that really sweet I’ve just never moved animals that big with that pointy of horns before Mark I hate to bring it to you but I don’t think you bought hamsters description was wrong on the advert see how they’re doing a wheel am is the one who did the the

Transactions and not but I’m not liable for anything look happy they’re so sweet the turkey hates them no I can’t think are they cute I’m currently out in the snow which is why my phone won’t focus looking for the turkey female turkey because um I’m with Peppa who loves the snow the

Female turkey took mightily against the cows she shouted at them all afternoon and we didn’t think anything of it but she didn’t go to bed at night and we couldn’t find her and I thought okay well she’ll just spend a night out she’s probably up

High then it started to snow and I saw the weather forecast was for well before below freezing so I’m a bit anxious about her now and I’m exploring all of her old haunts see if I can find her but it is Jolly cold [Applause]

Oh there you are wow that was a bit of prudent filming I didn’t think I’d find her silly bird oh sweetheart hello all right I’m done you can just see me I don’t want to frighten My Girl by putting it right in her eyes but she was already a bit

Chilly poor baby right we’ll go back to the run and we’ll have a chat with the cows tomorrow see if you can get on better with them oh she’s all shivery glad I found her there she is back in the room with the others oh Sweetart