Building & Cutting Timber is the flavour of the season. Building projects continue around here and I have been using up a lot of our supply of timber that’s been lying around. This is good. And bad. After building the raised Mandarin Bed by the deck, I decided to take to the deck with the … More Building Projects & Chickens Are Still Coming
The eggs were in the incubator in lockdown mode. It was late on Sunday afternoon. Day 19 was drawing to a close. We arrived home to find that there was a powercut and I immediately ran to check the incubator. The temperature had dropped to 36degC. I rushed to get towels and wool blankets to … More In Which a Powercut Threatens The Incubator Hatch
We have chicks! Frodo hatched 10 out of the 13 eggs she was sitting on. The first ones hatched overnight on Sunday. Of the three that didn’t hatch, two (one Frodo one and one Tiggywinkle one) had gone bad earlier on (it’s hard to tell with darker shells sometimes) and one (a Frodo one) just … More Who’s Your Daddy?
We are awaiting feather babies. Frodo took a little longer than usual to go full broody, but she is now sitting on eggs. I set up the Corner Coop for her and tested her out with three of Paris’ eggs from the first incubator batch. It seems I moved her a little early as she … More Awaiting Babies
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