Chicken shenanigans
Well. Let’s talk about the birds, shall we? My beloved chickens and ducks! [rollseyes] We have so many chickens. And the door of the coop broke in the wind, and hasn’t been fixed, and we have chickens *everywhere!* I don’t want to show you the mess they’re making on our deck, or the way they […]
Silly birds
Silly. And broody. But so, so lovely :) I can’t get enough of these beautiful birds! The ducks have been building nests out in the garden, where the weeds are thick and make good shelter. I found a clutch of eggs when I was weeding recently. It was easy to move the eggs […]
Chickens
There’s no denying it. I love my chickens. Like, really love them. I realised that, perhaps I love them too much, this morning, when monte came in to bid me good morning with the news that a quoll must have breached our chook pen and killed two of our pullets (one of the […]
Garden love
Spring is just so magical isn’t it. I’ve been enjoying wandering around our garden so much. I’m learning about our plants’ life cycles and what plants grow well here as well as learning things like what the chickens prefer to eat (daikon leaves) and what they leave alone (silverbeet, rhubarb). It’s no secret. I […]
Mother
Recently, bossy white chook became a mummy. The first time she tried to be a mother didn’t work out very well. She was sitting on too many eggs and she crushed them and she didn’t sit long enough and her two hatched chicks died, probably because she kept sitting on the eggs when she should […]
Grateful for chickens
I love the chickens. I love it how they scramble to the door of their chook run and wait for their food scraps. I love it that they see me coming, clomping along in monte’s oversized crocs, carrying the blue chook scraps bucket, and they cluck and carry on, waiting impatiently for me to come […]
Chickens and the garden
Monte’s idea for using the chickens to fertilize our garden stems from principles of permaculture. The chickens eat our food scraps, which they scratch into the ground, along with green waste, including lawn clippings, and hay and silage leftover from what the cows don’t eat, which monte shovels into the chook pen. Over time, the […]
The secret life of chickens
We still remark at how bad our luck was with our new chicks this year, with only two birds surviving after 24 eggs were incubated by our two hens. The two chicks that we do have are thriving, and we delight in hearing their chirping each day, amidst the clucking of the two hens and […]
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