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Will be even better when we start rearing our own pork =D
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Completely homegrown meals
Our favourite kind!
Will be even better when we start rearing our own pork =D
Will be even better when we start rearing our own pork =D
Beans! (or lack of)
I only managed to gather six runners and five french beans from the garden yesterday for our evening meal. At this rate we will never be self sufficient!
=D
=D
Thursday, 11 August 2011
No chirpy cheep-cheeps for us
We recently bought some fertile eggs for Blue, our Maran whose favourite pastime, it seems, is being broody. She hatched some lovely chicks last year, and was determined to starve herself recently until we relented and got her some more eggs. Only one problem – she abandoned them after five days, whilst we were on holiday. Our lovely chicken sitting neighbour replaced Blue with a broody hen of her own, and we hoped for the best.
Around Day 18 we found a broken egg which Mama Hen had pushed out of the nest. The chick had formed but there were no signs of life. We continued to let her sit on the remaining eggs but Day 21 emerged and passed without any muffled cheeping sounds from under Mother’s plumage. Devastated. Although probably not as devastated as the poor broody who has been dutifully sitting for all this time.
And to rub salt into the wound, after a couple of weeks Blue became broody again! Bad hen!
Around Day 18 we found a broken egg which Mama Hen had pushed out of the nest. The chick had formed but there were no signs of life. We continued to let her sit on the remaining eggs but Day 21 emerged and passed without any muffled cheeping sounds from under Mother’s plumage. Devastated. Although probably not as devastated as the poor broody who has been dutifully sitting for all this time.
And to rub salt into the wound, after a couple of weeks Blue became broody again! Bad hen!
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| Blue on her eggs |
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