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 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 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 chickens, livestock, tagged chickens on 6 April 2008 | No Comments »
Chicks are prey to so many. Crows will take them, rats will have them. We are trying our best.. they are with their mother hen, and the run is covered with cloth netting.. keeping the jackdaws and crows out. They are in a broody coup inside the run, so double protection.
Our cat is hunting them. [...]
Posted in chickens, general wittering, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, tagged chicks, lambs, sheep on 5 April 2008 | No Comments »
This time last week, we were sitting in front of the fire, himself spinning, me knitting. Since then, everything seems to have changed, and not just the clocks. We seem to have lurched forward into ’summer’ with an almost audible pop. Later that night we were wearing woolly hats, and raincoats, waiting in the dark [...]
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, self-sufficiency, smallholding, tagged chickens, chicks, eggs on 4 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
The buff leghorn, our broody hen, marched out of her nest today, giving up on the remaining eggs and concentrating on her three chicks.
Chicks, just like lambs, can waste a lot of time.. just in the watching.
This has to be easier than using an incubator, although having a hen prone to broodiness might turn out [...]
Posted in chickens, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, tagged chickens, chicks, lambing, lambs, sheep on 3 April 2008 | No Comments »
Rogan, our remaining lamb is still doing well, seems to be growing before our eyes, not surprising now he is getting all the milk. He is starting to copy his mum, chewing on a leaf of ivy companionably next to her.. though not actually eating it.. but its all good practice. His legs are, like [...]
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