The next stage, chooks.

Well we are ready to take the net step and will be getting chooks soon!!!

I have ordered a coop, which should arrive early next week and hope to have that built and ready to house the chooks in a week or two, it depends on work as to when I can pick up the chooks.

I've been spending a lot of time recently reading about keeping chooks so am looking forward to getting them. I have decided to start small with 3 or 4 birds in a coop with small outside area, I plan to build a large coop and run but have not had the time to do it yet, I seem to be spending all my weekends cutting grass! When  I get the bigger run constructed I will use the first coop either for quail or something else.

Pictures to follow soon!!!

It's been awhile!!

Yes I know it's been awhile between posts.....

I could give several reasons for this but not sure if you really want to hear them! Main reason for not posting is we went overseas, back to the UK to visit family,

Anyway here are some of the things I've been upto  since the last post, in no particular order.

While we were away there was a big storm, 4 trees came down and a couple more lost branches, the largest was a gum that came over the back fence by the train line. The train guys cut the main trunk to clear the track but left the rest of the tree balancing on my fence and the slope down to the train line. Seven  hours of chain sawing later I managed to clear it from the fence and remove abit from the slope, to be left with a large pile of wood to be cut and stacked for firewood and an even bigger pile of small branches and foliage to be burnt. Two weekends later in between rain showers I managed to cut and store the firewood and burn off the smaller stuff,

 

The wood shed is now 3/4 quarters full, not enough for next winter but certainly a big help.

 

 







That still leaves the 2 willows that came over the front fence, a neighbour cut these as the were blocking the road and I have made several calls to the council to move the trunks from the roadside culvert but the are still there waiting to flood the road when I rains next! I need to get out there to remove the branches from the fence line but again they are on a slope and the ground is very wet around there so it might have to wait awhile.

I only discovered the fourth tree yesterday, a neighbour had told me about a tree he had down,  taking out a section of his fence, and while taking a walk with Quinn we found it over our fence! We also found a tiger snake.....  so I really need to cut that long grass.