We have a few large piles of wood that are taking up pature space and breeding snakes, foxes and termites (making it no good for firewood either), so now that the fireban has been lifted and its wet enough not to be a risk for everything catching fire, its time …
We ended up with 11 chicks hatched from the first lot and seven from the second lot and they are all now happily growing up in a re-furbished broody box. From the second lot, none of the purchased Auracana eggs hatched, only one partially developed which was disappointing. All of …
The property has seemed really empty since we sold our first lot of Dorper sheep at the end of last year due to the drought. It was lucky that we did as we certainly would not have had enough feed for them and the horses through summer, especially as we …
Well today is hatch day here at Eagleburra…well technically 21 days was up at 7.30pm last night, but after a power outage one night at the end of week one, plus the colder temperature only one chick (a Rhode Island Red) hatched yesterday at 4.30pm. After a very nerve wracking …
Definitely feeling the chill now on these cold autumn mornings. Still, not much rain to speak of, but we have had some new chicks incubating which is always exciting 🙂
Its a little frustrating having a pen full of chickens and still having to buy shop eggs! Although Corn Chip the gold laved wyandotte started laying again a couple of weeks ago and it looks like Coal the Ancona hen has also started laying, yesterday we picked up three 17 …
Like many other things over the hot dry summer that we have just had, this blog has been sadly neglected. Now that winter is hopefully on its way I do plan on updating this blog more frequently, as well as going back in time and adding some posts and photographs. …
The reality of life can sometimes be a little overwhelming and occasionally it’s nice to just forget the things that make life complicated and have a little fun, especially if it will make the kids laugh. I guess one of the side effects of G’s illness is that we do …
We really have had enough of the summer heat and once again are getting desperate for rain. Everything is dry, dusty and bare at the moment.
