Chicken House Update
Ok, so another weekend is over and we’ve made a bit more progress on the chicken coop. We had a couple of good scores, the fibre cement cladding and insulation turned out to be new, but excess left over from a building job so it was pretty cheap. This is how it looked on Saturday […]
Construction Begins
We started construction of the chicken house on the Easter weekend. So far we’ve got most of the materials for free. Frame Timber – Free from Gumtree, a guy wanted to get rid of his old pagola. It’s all Jarrah – a real score as it’s more termite resistant than other timbers without the chemicals […]
Congo Potato
Here are the congo potatoes I harvesed today, they are very dark, almost metalic purple on the outside and wen you cook them the inside turns a light purple colour. Taste pretty much like reguar potatoes.
Midas Growing Up
Nathan took this photo of Midas today, compared to the one taken a few months ago ‘next to the blue pot’ he really doesn’t look like a puppy anymore. He’s about 6 months old now but I think we’ve got awhile still to go before he gets out of the psycho puppy stage.
New Chicken House Plan
This is the new plan for our chicken ouse, we’e decided against a transportable coop and gone with a permanent one instead. It’s going to be 2m long by 1.5m wide, should be enough space for about 10 chickens.
Happy Family
Two weeks ago Jellybean, the stray that I’ve been feeding for the last few months showed up for our nightly pat with an abscess on his neck. After a small “discussion” with Nathan I look him to the vet, $300 later Jelly’s abscess is all cleaned up, he’s micro chipped and immunised, officially a boy […]
Triffid Zucchini
Look at my Megga Zucchini! I’ve been harvesting baby ones for the last couple of weeks, these two were hiding around the other side of the plant. The are both over 30m long!