Our first lambs have been born. I know it happens every year, but its always very exciting to see those first ones. After six weeks of checking them morning and night in the cold and wet, I’ll be over it, but right now, it’s exciting. These are a little set of twins. They were born […]
Last Easter we bought Danny a rabbit. Archie already had fish (that’s a WHOLE long story for another day!!), and Jasmine had claimed the cats, so Danny thought he needed a pet too. Being Easter, of course it had to be a rabbit. My previous experience with rabbits was that they grew so big, with […]
BJ is our bull – and yes you read it right – we gave him a pedicure! As you can see he is a big enormous black angus bull. He has been in with the main herd of cows since early January, and when we took him out we noticed he was limping a bit on his […]
During January wonderful Cam had a real run at getting the chook pen finished – and we finally got there! I was so excited that we were working on it that I kind of forgot to get more photos along the way… But here’s Danny putting the finishing touches on the doors. Once it was […]
Our Arucana’s have started laying!! It is so exciting – we were away last weekend, and came home to one lone blue egg nestled into a nesting box. The next day there was none, but then the day after that we got two! It varied for a few days, but now we are consistently getting […]
Our last lot of chickens have hatched, so we have six more little babies! Very exciting! Cam is wondering where all the chook feed is going to come from! And stating loudly that we better start getting a decent supply of eggs soon! I haven’t the heart to tell him that there is also a […]
Well we really had a huge run at the new chookpen over the Melbourne Cup weekend. The frame is well and truly taking shape. While Cam was welding new bits together, I was coming behind, and painting all the welds with an anti rust paint. I even had a bit of a go at welding […]
These are some eggs we hatched in our incubator. I ordered two dozen eggs on line, 12 buff sussex and 12 lavender araucanas. Was so excited when they arrived in the mail. Anyway three weeks later we had little chickens hatching, creating lots of excitement amongst the household. We had 13 hatch in total, […]
Yes – I’m very excited! I have finally managed to get Cam to make a start on our new chook pen. the existing one, as you can see below, leaves a lot to be desired. The old tank is one I rolled to this location from the other side of the garden – not an […]