Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

Oz, Wilma made her first egg. How about your Cuckoo Marans, they laying yet?

vehve said:

Oz, Wilma made her first egg. How about your Cuckoo Marans, they laying yet?

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no my marans are yet to lay. any week now

I planted three cheap apple trees a month or so ago. I couldn't believe the chickens actually stripped the darn thing... I luckily fenced it just in time, but they ate about half the bark. So far, so good, the tree recovered. Chickens... they're animals I tell ya!

we "pal-pal" every tree. we use coconut fronds on the windward side and bamboo trellis on the other sides.

its time consuming but so worth it to keep trees safe and let them have a fighting chance.

piglett said:

the goats can already sneak out the chicken door

if i make it any smaller the rooster will be stuck in the coop

goat feed runs me $14.00

but i only give each of em a handful in the morning

after that the goats are on bush trimming duty

so they get no further feed

they do steal a little chicken feed but only till it is all eaten

i feed twice a day & that's it.

this makes em forage better

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I do the same but top my goats up after they have been foraging. I let them out hungry each morning (well they have a rope tied to a tree) and ge to mow their assigned area. Then they get a legume tree called ipil ipil if I have available or some adult mix chook/pig feed.

In search of Delaware, New Hamphire and SLW eggs.

Got any??

My supplier seems to run out of chickens

scottcaddy said:

, Sorry I didn't know you had mini's

You guys must have short bushes up in the North East then!

Sorry, But I couldn't stop myself

don't let your Roo beat up the goats

Scott

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not small goats but big roosters

ozexpat said:

I do the same but top my goats up after they have been foraging. I let them out hungry each morning (well they have a rope tied to a tree) and ge to mow their assigned area. Then they get a legume tree called ipil ipil if I have available or some adult mix chook/pig feed.

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maybe i should keep em in till the chickens have had their breakfast

then turn em loose on the bushes

everyone gets 3 o'clock snacks anyhow

Eggs went into the bator on Friday.

The Guineas are laying up a storm. In a few monhs we will have enough to let 30 loose as a free range experiment.

The heritage birds are putting out 4-6 eggs a week each, I have to be happy with that.

Still no eggs from the white rocks or cuckoo marans. I will have to give them a little chat in three weeks if we dont have eggs by then.

The renetting of the first frow out pen is complete. The birds will get their second Coryza vaccine and new zip tie leg bands before they go back in.

Coco lumber milling started yesterday at the farm in Kabankalan. There are four coco trees not five as I thought but they are 30 years old, not 10 so they are a good 50 feet high. We should get some good lumber out of them. There is also a 40 year old Santol or cotton fruit tree that we harvested.



Its a popular fruit tree but this one is past its prime.

According to the internet, It is fairly hard, moderately heavy, close-grained and polishes well, but is not always of good quality. It is not durable in contact with moisture and is subject to borers. However, it is plentiful, easy to saw and work, and accordingly popular. If carefully seasoned, it can be employed for house-posts, interior construction, light-framing, barrels, cabinetwork, boats, carts, sandals, butcher's blocks, household utensils and carvings.

We will season it for a year before we use it.

500 cinder blocks and 20 bags of cement were delivered yesterday.

The carpenter starts construction on the piggery extension on Monday. It will give us 2 12x8 pens, more room for the farrowing pens and an 8x8 boar pen under one roof.