L is for lettuce
OK, it was as easy as A-B-C up to now, but now we have to start jumping around in the alphabet. The seasons just don’t produce fruits and vegetables in alphabetical order! [...]
chickens
Rush and rescue
Between hosting a year-end function for 20+ people we had to manage the little chicks through a heat wave and on top of that our next batch of “animals” were scheduled to [...]
Meet the team
You can’t turn your back for one second! So while I was away getting trained as a trainer, this happened… So from the 24 eggs we went to fetch from the other side of [...]
The birds and the bees
The day dawned wet and drizzly. With October having been one of the driest in years, the rain was more than welcome – all 11mm of it! So with it being slushy and muddy [...]
Flying the coop
If someone flies the coop, they leave the situation that they are in, often because they want to do something different. Well, we definitely wanted to [...]
Don’t count your chickens before…
For those of you that have been wondering – the chook saga hasn’t died a quiet death. It just went on a short hiatus… But it is now back in its full slow but [...]
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
I thought the most difficult part of getting chooks is providing a home for them. Somewhere safe from predators, ventilated enough but not cold, ample non-soggy scratching [...]
Chicken timeshare facility
As I was studying Harvey Ussery’s book titled The Small Scale Poultry Flock, I was again made aware of the concept of a chicken tractor, or a chicken cruiser as he calls [...]