The chickens are on lay! OK. I know that is not great English, but I have the 1967 Herman’s Hermits’ hit ‘No milk today’ in my head and it all just worked (… in my head!) 😛 But in contrast to the mood of the song, there is nothing forlorn about the back yard, the chickens, … Continue reading
… our very own ‘Julia Gillard’ chicken! It’s been a while since the last post. I guess life gets busy at times and I lose track of keeping up with the blog. I should really adopt a strict publishing regime a la newsstand magazines—it’s something I did a lifetime ago—run a magazine albeit a small one, but … Continue reading
… and all things nice! We had leftover rice from dinner last night that we put out for a treat for the girls this morning. When we first got this brood they quite timid, but they seem to recognise us more and more each day as the purveyors of fine food 😀 The garden has gone … Continue reading
… a quick update. It is late March which in Oz means we are almost a whole month into Autumn (Fall) but you would not know it. I awoke this morning to another warm day: it is 26ºC now (9am) heading for 31ºC. It is far too warm and to be honest, I am over it. … Continue reading
It is an egg, and Juliet is the mum! 😀 (I am now cringing and already apologising to all and sundry for this terrible rework of the Bard’s beautiful lines!) Just a very quick post. Since we brought our new girls home almost two weeks ago, we have had only a small clutch of eggs. … Continue reading
… a new coup and a new beginning After the trauma of having to say goodbye to our last flock, and being told that we did not have to wait to restock (if it was leukosis* it does not persist in the environment) I did some research on chickens and suppliers and landed on a supplier … Continue reading
… is a little hard to take Sadly tonight I must report that our backyard is bare—our flock is no more. We had our remaining three chooks put to sleep after a lot of soul searching but, at the end of the day, it had to be done. Without creating ‘War and Peace’ the chronology of … Continue reading
… and soapy tales to tell! Wow! It’s been almost two months since my last post. How can that be? I did start a rather convoluted post about chickens which I hope to revisit, but in the meantime, long story short, we had one of our originals, Georgie, die. And then Blanche presented as being … Continue reading
AKA a small random collection of unrelated things We are now into October so Spring is certainly here. It’s lovely to see fresh growth on the Jacaranda which we planted two years ago in memory of my brother. In the last two years I think it has doubled in height but in that time we have not seen any … Continue reading
Blanche’s new Indian name! The story of Blanche is a good one. One of the original ‘Flock of Four’ she was the only one with a fancy moniker…Blanche de la Plume (as we had called all of the others according to their colour — Murphy and Georgia BROWN; Cilla BLACK) and for the life of us … Continue reading
