permaculture, chooks & stuff in the Samford Valley (Queensland)
Posted in chickens, permaculture plants on Sep 11th, 2009
Vetiver haircut
Last Saturday it was time to give my vetiver a trim – to be frank, it ended up being a bit of a mum cut….. straight fringe, no layering, you know what I mean.
I was rather amazed to discover that the taller stems were nearly 3 metres long.
Well not any more….now they are all [...]
Posted in chickens on Aug 25th, 2009
A little bit of excitement here today – Coco, the Araucana laid her first egg, a tiny, bluey green effort weighing all of 35 grams.
We now have 5 out of 6 hens laying – just waiting on Narelle, the Australorp, to join the other ‘mums’ – is that the right word?
Having hens that lay such [...]
Posted in chickens on Aug 15th, 2009
This is a very clever UK campaign that has just started, to highlight the plight of factory chickens in that country.
The website is set up as a 39 day blog to follow the daily life of a broiler chicken – 39 days of course being its whole short unnatural existence.
Here is the latest posting
day 6: [...]
Posted in chickens on Aug 5th, 2009
It looks like a poultry club is going to form in our area.
Not your average poultry club for super serious breeders – with this club, 2 or 3 backyard cross-breeds and you’re in!
A local couple held a meeting last Saturday morning to gauge the level of interest in forming a club, for people with chooks [...]
Posted in chickens, permaculture plants on Jul 28th, 2009
This here’s the wattle, the emblem of our land.
You can stick it in a bottle, you can hold it in your hand.
(’The Bruces’ – Monty Python)
The wattle blossom is starting to go ballistic here at my place. I have put in three or four hundred plants over the past few years, so I suppose [...]
Posted in chickens, permaculture plants, weeds on Jul 5th, 2009
I created quite a stir in the chicken run today – it was time to build the residents a herbatorium.
This is an idea that I must have read about somewhere in the permaculture literature, I just can’t remember where, so I don’t know who to credit.
As most of you would know, chickens left to their [...]
Posted in chickens on Jul 3rd, 2009
……did I tell you how pleased with myself I was when I built the chook house earlier this year?
My first building project of any kind….certainly made a few beginner errors along the way, but I am pretty happy with the result – and I got a real buzz when the chickens knew where to roost [...]
Posted in chickens, vegetables on Jun 23rd, 2009
I built a chook house (chicken coop) for the ‘girls’ recently and it remains still un-named. As most of you that have backyard chickens would know, it is kind of compulsory for the coop to:
1. have a name
2. for that name to have a chicken theme and be extremely corny.
Names already used for other poultry [...]
Posted in chickens on Jun 17th, 2009
Bit of a no news day today, or at least a no egg day to be precise. I realise its winter and the days are short but still an egg or two would be nice.
Shouldn’t be too hard on them I guess, 3 of them are still quite young but they are eating a lot [...]
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