One chicken, one prolapse, one tube of Germoloids… ugh.

December 24, 2010
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One of our chickens has had a prolapse after becoming egg-bound. We’ve had to push her insides back in the vent and apply Germoloids. Fingers crossed.

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The Natural Navigator by Tristan Gooley

November 30, 2010
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‘We are all natural navigators.’ That’s the premise of this book: it’s even written in large, elegant letters on the back cover. It’s true, too, but without a bit of background information there’s not much we can do to navigate beyond the local areas we all know well. The idea of this chunky, rather nicely-designed [...]

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The chickens have a new favourite thing

November 29, 2010
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Buying the wrong chicken food was a lucky accident as our chickens seem to have found a new, untapped appetite.

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End of the season

November 23, 2010

As winter approaches, we’ve been tidying up the plot and the greenhouse, and were surprised to find some new tomatoes growing on our vines.

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The new feeder and drinker are saving both waste and time

November 2, 2010
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Since putting the new feeder and drinker into the chicken compound we have cut down on waste and the amount of time we have to spend looking after them.

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Our chickens are moulting heavily

October 31, 2010
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Two of our chickens are losing their feathers as they moult, while the other chickens help by plucking them out and eating them. The poor things are really feeling the cold.

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We bottle the nettle wine

October 29, 2010
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We’ve finally bottled the nettle wine and now have a dozen bottles of very potent-tasting liquid. We’re hoping it will mellow as it matures.

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We’ve harvested our main potato crop

October 27, 2010
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The tops of our potato plants have died down, so we dig up the crop and found 135 potatoes waiting under the surface. A bumper crop that should see us through to spring.

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Our chickens are such messy eaters

October 25, 2010
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Our chickens are such messy eaters – they throw more of their food on the floor than they swallow. With so much going to waste, we’ve decided to do something about it.

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Mucking out the chickens

October 6, 2010

The chickens’ compound was starting to smell – it was time to dig out two years’-worth of droppings and use them to fertilise the plot. It was a smelly, messy job.

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