Posted in chickens, grow your own food, house and home, livestock, tagged chickens, eggs on 12 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
Another new toy and yes this one was a bit indulgent.. but the egg skelter is so cool, it had to be done.
What a good idea - the eggs are arranged in the order they were laid.. so you eat them in the right order..
take the bottom egg and the rest all roll down; it’s [...]
Posted in livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, tagged fleece, sheep, solar energy, spinning, wool on 11 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
Had the sheep shearer come today - nice lad, very competent at his work, kind with the sheep, and takes care over not cutting them. He’s a local lad, and divides his time between here and New Zealand.
Although I think it would be good if we learned to shear.. watching him work.. I realise it’s quite [...]
Posted in grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, tagged lambing, sheep on 8 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
the window for lambing now draws to a close.. if they squeezed any out now they remaining ewes would have had to have been tupped on the ram’s last day, and be a week late too! - is not going to happen…
So - not a roaring success.
Only one out of the three ewes lambed.. she [...]
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, self-sufficiency, vegetables, tagged eggs on 1 May 2008 | 3 Comments »
One of the best things about growing your own food, is that you get the truth about food, not the perfect unblemished versions the shops would have you believe in. I thought of this today when I collected the eggs, and found a very long and pointy egg. The hen that was not laying has [...]
Posted in chickens, general wittering, grow your own food, tagged chickens on 24 April 2008 | No Comments »
Despite Stoney pointing out that chickens are better at numeracy than sheep.. they are still stupid.
We have 4 hens… one is brooding her chicks, and one is not laying (and if she keeps this up.. the word ‘casserole’ might be mentioned a bit more), so that leaves us with two hens laying eggs. In the [...]
Posted in livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, tagged sheep; lambing on 22 April 2008 | No Comments »
Moved the two ewes-who-have-no-intention-of-lambing into the field with Sharona and her lamb, Rogan, today. No choice really: out of grass in the orchard, and so the flock is back together.. only now are four. This came as a bit of a surprise to the two girls and to Rogan the lamb, he wanted to play.. they [...]
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, tagged chickens; chicks; sheep; lambs on 20 April 2008 | No Comments »
Stunning how fast Rogan is growing.. mind you he has all the milk to himself, and is eating grass and vegetation now. It’s a real shame he does not have any other lambs to play with.. shame for Sharona his mum too.. as he has to jump on and harrass her! Today he was happy [...]
Posted in livestock, make it yourself, sheep, tagged knitting, lambing, sheep on 19 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s been three weeks. Three weeks ago we were sitting in front of the fire on a cold wintry day, himself spinning, me knitting, when the lambing began, and with that spring popped into place. Today it popped out again, and back into winter. April often seems like that: the fight between winter and spring. [...]
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