Gorgeous Girls!

Slowly, slowly spring is getting ever so close, I can count the days now!

As the weather warms up everything seems to come alive..the grass in the paddocks, the baby calves, the blossoms on the trees and even the chooks!

All winter we have had hardly any eggs from the girls.

 Finally they have started to lay again.

The girls have a fabulous life I think, 

a bowl of grain for breakfast..followed by some scraps from the kitchen,

 this morning.....couscous....

followed by a spot of egg laying....

Can you see what she has hidden under there?

then perhaps if the weather is nice, a wander outside in search of something yummy!

then as the day comes to an end they head home to roost.

And I collect the eggs for the day!

Perhaps pancakes for breakfast tomorrow?

Wiggly Worms

Have you seen our worm farm?

For animals so small they sure do eat alot!

On the menu today......from the kitchen...

green lettuce leaves... I have to tear it all up for them.

Look at them all, healthy looking creatures.



The worms give me fertiliser for my vegetable patch.

Sometimes I get buckets and buckets.



The worms have to share the kitchen scraps with the chooks, sometimes there is barely enough to go around.

Because I never leave much on my dinner plate!

I have 5 new chooks, 4 Silver Laced Wyandottes and one Gold Laced.

Four of them look alike so it was very hard to name them.

So we have called them Silky 1, Silky 2, Silky 3, Silky 4 and Rose, she is the gold laced one.

We are not getting any eggs because all the old chooks are loosing their feathers and the young ones have not started laying yet.

It will be springtime before the egg supply really picks up again!



Food Basket.

At last the sun returns...... just in time for autumn. A change of seasons.

The days are getting shorter, in the morning when I wake, it is just a little darker.

The trees in the garden are slowly changing colours, and soon the leaves with fall to the ground.

I love to play in the autumn leaves!

A busy afternoon picking vegetables....after a week of wet weather, the vegetable garden is a bit of a mess.

Capsicums are red and ready....my favourite. They are lovely and sweet. Great in salad!

There are tomatoes everywhere.....

the rain has not been good for them, there are plenty of nice ones but also lots of split ones ruined because they have had TOO much water!

still plenty for us.......

The chooks are also glad to see the sunshine, maybe they will lay a few more eggs.

 They don't lay many in the cold wet weather. I have only been getting 2 a day!

Some bad news on the chook numbers too, Charcoal is missing!

Somewhere out there, I think there is a cheeky fox....he best stay away from my chooks!

Now I only have 4, Snow White, Frosty, Ginger and Speckles.

I hope they stay safe.

Farmyard Friends

Once upon a time I introduced my girls to you....sadly my first chooks are no longer with us, Treefox and Bundle, died in the chookpen. And even worse we think Silky met her match with a FOX!

The chickens that arrived in the summer, Snow White and Frosty are still here and laying lots of eggs. I have another 4 chooks now, so that makes 6. My new girls are Speckles, Ginger, Charcoal and Sooty. Now I collect up to 6 eggs a day! They are very good layers.

Each week I sell one or two dozen eggs. I get $3.50 for one dozen eggs, so far I have sold 9 dozen!

I wish I had more chooks so I could collect more eggs, sell more eggs and make more money. I am saving up to buy a horse!

Frosty....just popped an egg out!

Front to back: Ginger, Charcoal, Sooty, Frosty and Snow White.
Speckles is missing?

The chooks love their vegetable scraps and the grain BUT not as much as getting out and pecking green grass and scratching in the dirt. The green grass makes the egg yolks really orange. Perfect for pancakes on Sunday morning!

My calves have grown so much, only Curly has milk now. Stella, Freckles, Queenie, Stinky, and Clover are all weaned. They get a trough full of clover hay and oats. They love it!