And they are. Practically every hen on the place is shedding feathers wildly in all directions. Place looks as if I’ve been gutting feather mattresses, and there are very few eggs to be found. The joys of farming!
Category: Comments from Farside
Bad Season for Chickens
Chicken seems to be something of a theme this week… But I was counting hens as they arrived for breakfast this morning and realized that I had almost no one producing chicks this year. The geese, most unusually, laid and brooded once and without effective results. While most of the hens didn’t even seem to …
Not so Theoretical Rain
And subsequent to my last farm report we got real actual rain. Not as much as we’d have liked, but it was sufficient to keep us in the holding pattern of “dry but not impossibly so.” Over two days it dumped 50 mls or two inches on Farside. We’d have liked double or even triple …
Theoretical rain
At least, according to the weather forecast we’re getting some this afternoon. But I’m not taking any bets on that. The last half a dozen times that’s been said – there’s been nothing, or a miserable half-ml. In fact that was what we had last night. Not a lot for thirsty pastures, frantic farmers, and …
Dry, Drier, (Driest?)
Yes, it’s moving on towards official. If we don’t get solid rain in the next few weeks Farside will have a drought. The geese are annoyed about it, the council (who have to keep fiddling about with water pressure) are annoyed about it, and since I have to keep fiddling about with the water inlet …
Blank Green Rectangle continues
It’s deeply annoying. But there it is. If I shut down my site and go in from my url then I can look at anything posted. However I can’t be on my site as me, then go into the url on a different screen to check what I’ve just posted, if I do I’m back …
Hot Weather and Similar Tempers.
The weather is hot, has been hot, and looks as if it may continue to be hot for weeks to come – with very little rain so a drought may be gettingĂ‚Â closer than I like as a farmer, although we have ample grass as yet. And on the flip side of that I feel …
An Interesting March to come
and it may well be because I’ll be one of the “victims” in a local fire brigade’s two day operation. They plan 24 hours of 20 scenarios with 10 fire appliances and more than 60 firefighters and they wanted volunteers for patients on which to practice their skills. I’ve volunteered, and am encouraging several friends …
Visitor!
I got a number of droppers-in over the Xmas/New year break, the one that delighted me the most was my younger sister, Chris, who was able to come down from where she lives in Auckland and spend three days. That didn’t only make my month, it also left Thunder ecstatic. He scurried after her through …
This week was Busy!
28 April 2013
I’ve been scrambing to clear away a long list of writing I’d said to myself I’d have off my plate by the end of April. Not sure I’ll make it, but in the past week I’ve – written 8 short reviews for a UK magazine and an article for them, revised 3 items to date …
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