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gardening.
I think that this is going to be a much more productive year, so far as the annual beds are concerned. Previous years have been hampered by the lack of soil fertility, in part because I'd grow my vegies and then wouldn't really have replaced the nutrients that got taken from the soil by the next year.
With five chooks pooping and ploughing each bed that they're on in the tractor, and their 'night soil' fuelling the compost that then goes into other parts of the garden, I feel like things might actually grow this year!
With the two babies starting to lay regularly, we've suddenly found ourselves swimming in eggs! This is what happens when you don't collect the eggs for a day:
The only one no longer laying is Hainan chicken, and she gave it a red hot go once her implant wore off!
We hastily took her back to the vet and got her implanted again. She will hopefully live long(er) than her sister (RIP Honey Soy) and prosper as the grand old matriach of the chooken of our flock!
Here, have a pic of Goongbao and Shantung in the nesting boxes:
And the queue for thetoilets laying boxes - Siyao and Coldie all anxious and impatient:
The 'babies' (Siyao and Goongbao) are mostly getting on with the others these days. Siyao is there whenever there is the possibility of food, but Goongbao is a bit of a solitary girl. Doesn't mind hanging out, but is more often where the others are not. Introverts 'r chook!
Classic example: the earlier photo where four of them are clustered around a dish. And Goongbao? She's off checking out other things.
She's so big and fluffy compared to how small and teeny-tiny she was when we got her!
Yes, that bit of down and feather at the front is the now-beautifully plumaged Goongbao as a teeny tiny chickadee!
How they grow!
gardening.I think that this is going to be a much more productive year, so far as the annual beds are concerned. Previous years have been hampered by the lack of soil fertility, in part because I'd grow my vegies and then wouldn't really have replaced the nutrients that got taken from the soil by the next year.
With five chooks pooping and ploughing each bed that they're on in the tractor, and their 'night soil' fuelling the compost that then goes into other parts of the garden, I feel like things might actually grow this year!
With the two babies starting to lay regularly, we've suddenly found ourselves swimming in eggs! This is what happens when you don't collect the eggs for a day:
The only one no longer laying is Hainan chicken, and she gave it a red hot go once her implant wore off!
We hastily took her back to the vet and got her implanted again. She will hopefully live long(er) than her sister (RIP Honey Soy) and prosper as the grand old matriach of the chooken of our flock!
Here, have a pic of Goongbao and Shantung in the nesting boxes:
And the queue for the
The 'babies' (Siyao and Goongbao) are mostly getting on with the others these days. Siyao is there whenever there is the possibility of food, but Goongbao is a bit of a solitary girl. Doesn't mind hanging out, but is more often where the others are not. Introverts 'r chook!
Classic example: the earlier photo where four of them are clustered around a dish. And Goongbao? She's off checking out other things.
She's so big and fluffy compared to how small and teeny-tiny she was when we got her!
Yes, that bit of down and feather at the front is the now-beautifully plumaged Goongbao as a teeny tiny chickadee!
How they grow!
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