Our chooks and rooster are all grown up now and we are getting a constant supply of eggs. I stole of the eggs and put them in an incubator.
Having never bred chooks before it was going to a hit or miss affair. But I had great success, achieved a 90% hatch rate. The worst part was that I had them in a large white container in my office and the food they were on absolutely stunk when it got wet.
This is Pierre, our roster. He gets a little cocky at times and tries to have a go at me, so he either cops vinegar spray, water poured over him or herded off with a stick. He really looks after his ladies.
Late summer we added 4 guinea fowl to help protect the backyard from snakes. Noisy things and I keep telling them that there are no snakes on the roof of the house. I got two pearl - the ones in the picture and two lavender guinea fowl.
Some of the chicks I bred, just starting to feather up. Looking forward to getting them out of my office and into their own coup outside.
Here they are a week later, they grow so quickly.
This is some of the guinea fowl I bred. I hatched 19 chicks. Around 3 weeks of age they started flying out of the box and exploring my office and leaving lovely messages everywhere.
Roses
My roses have been blooming profusely through out summer. I planted all fragrant roses and it is so nice to walk out and put my nose into a rose.
This is one of my favourites - Avon
Over summer we got a Suffolk ram, he was a neglected little thing when he arrived, but after feeding in our paddocks for a couple of months he really took off and turned into a stunning specimen. Wasn't long before he got to work and late summer we had a few surprises arrive.
We were lucky to have 6 new additions - two sets of twins and two singles from our sheep. Couldn't help but name them. And with these arrivals came another learning curves -docking tails and other things that dangle. We asked a neighbour to show us what to do, looked straight forward and the lambs all seemed fine afterwards.
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