Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[satay]

We have 4 greys , unfortunately they are prone to sarcoids, and Winnie has several that will need to be surgically removed. This is Rosie , the girls " first " pony. She is 24

For someone who is not a horse person (only because I am the most uncoordinated person you will meet) that is a beautiful picture.

 

[Fancychooklady]

You are so good at taking pictures of them. Wanna come up for a visit and photograph mine when I am ready to sell them ? lol

I think I have OCD, I was walking through the garden the other day, and I found myself thinking mmm, if I put a chick in the crook of that cherubs arm..................

Watch this space , when my camera comes home I have more chicks due to hatch, yippee.

 

[satay]

I though I would post my lesson I learnt the hard way the other day here. I had just finished pickling some onions and thought I would put some quail eggs on to boil for the chickens as I had a heap of spares. I turned them on and I heard the dogs going off out side so I had to race out and stop one of my boys harassing the old neighbour from next door as he was half way between his place and mine. 1 dog loves him and one can't stand him not sure why that is. Reg is in his 70's So we get chatting as you do and he is here at least 40 minutes then as he is leaving he says can you smell something burning .. I couldn't so off he went and I go to head back inside and I hear popping. You guessed it I forgot about the quail eggs on the stove.. My house is full of smoke and I have exploded quail eggs all over the kitchen. Thankfully no fire though. I do have a fire alarm in there which has gone flat somehow without me knowing. My poor house 2 days later still smells like dead quail eggs and smoke. I have tried everything to get rid of the smell but no luck yet. So my lesson is never get distracted by a neighbour when your boiling eggs and make sure you double check the fire alarms. I have since replaced that one with another one to be sure.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Mmm, lucky. I've burnt the bum out of 3 x barley pots, boiling the barley for the horses.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Quote: Gosh yes. I now see why Ash and Satay get in heaps of eggs for hatching because it is so much easier ( and fun ) than having to quarantine for up to 4 weeks, dusting, worming etc.

Hello cheleB. I feel sorry for people that are denied the right to love a roo. My roos are great characters and much prettier than their hens. Spring is such a lovely time of the year. Babies everywhere .



I know , I think I need help for my camera fettish.

Great pictures!?!?!
My sister and I where playing with the chicks, taking pictures ( much like these ones ) and dad was like "Stop playing with those chicks, you'll give em a heart attack!". Next minute I see him lying on the rug with chicks in hand, swooshing them through the air like fighter jets

. Chicks can defeat any man to a state of cuteness.

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Well, yes they do have a brooder but they come out for a bit each day. It's good exersie and sometimes they cheap so much to let them out that we just have to. It's funny because I think they think we are actually their mother.
We found that if you tap on the ground they will come running and when you get up and walk off somewhere they follow. It's so cool!

I though I would post my lesson I learnt the hard way the other day here. I had just finished pickling some onions and thought I would put some quail eggs on to boil for the chickens as I had a heap of spares. I tuned them on and I heard the dogs going off out side so I had to race out and stop one of my boys harassing the old neighbour from next door as he was half way between his place and mine. 1 dog loves him and one can't stand him not sure why that is. Reg is in his 70's So we get chatting as you do and he is here at least 40 minutes then as he is leaving he says can you smell something burning .. I couldn't so off he went and I go to head back inside and I hear popping. You guessed it I forgot about the quail eggs on the stove.. My house is full of smoke and I have exploded quail eggs all over the kitchen. Thankfully no fire though. I do have a fire alarm in there which has gone flat somehow without me knowing. My poor house 2 days later still smells like dead quail eggs and smoke. I have tried everything to get rid of the smell but no luck yet. So my lesson is never get distracted by a neighbour when your boiling eggs and make sure you double check the fire alarms. I have since replaced that one with another one to be sure.

!!!! Good one Kym

.lol.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Hay guys, you said to with the chicks in their brooder, start of at 40deg and go down 5 each week. Well my chicks are only on day 3 and don't even seem to need their brooder much at all.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Your probably enjoying warm weather, unlike us, we've had a flood warning, so I'm about to put my gumboots on and go down the back to save the goats. Luke you'll know if they need more heat. They huddle up and chirp a lot.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Your probably enjoying warm weather, unlike us, we've had a flood warning, so I'm about to put my gumboots on and go down the back to save the goats. Luke you'll know if they need more heat. They huddle up and chirp a lot.

Yeah we are. It's great

. Wish we did have some of your rain though.
I've had to do the opposite and turn the light of coz they where to hot and yesterday they were out and about running in the house with no lamp for 2 hrs.
Now...QUICK go save those GOATS. ( didn't know you had goats.....pictures please

).

 

[Fancychooklady]

There is snow up on beauty! Just waiting for the lowest tide so we can bring them across the creek.

We have angora and boer goats.

 

[Ashburnham]

Hay guys, you said to with the chicks in their brooder, start of at 40deg and go down 5 each week. Well my chicks are only on day 3 and don't even seem to need their brooder much at all.

You've got 40 degrees, and we have 10 degrees! Funny country we live in.