Good morning folks
Hopefully a Saturday morning chuckle for all:
I was not a fan of the My Family craze and even less of a fan when I saw them in the Newsagent at $9 a piece .. that is over $50 on that window! Anyways, back to stuff I understand ....
Henriettasmum good to read that your flock is recovering. I am a bit late to the party on the whole antibiotic and egg subject, but if the girls have had antibiotics the eggs do get tossed and not fed back to them. I was told somewhere that one month after antibiotics and before going back to eating the eggs is recommended.
On the meal worms, the gals get maybe 3 or 4 large ones each, every afternoon.
Congrats on your swap and new additions, they sound adorable and looking forward to seeing some pics of them.
Fizzybelle good to also read that Annabelle is in good spirits.
SilkieChickStar a bit late to this party also but yep moults, especially hard ones, definitely cause my gals to be pouty and out of sorts.
Aaaw satay I am so very sorry to read of your loss
As mentioned on my last post, the plumbers were here yesterday complete with excavator to fix the broken pipes. As always, it turned out to be a bigger job than expected in that the storm water drain was above the sewerage drain and so that had to be taken out to get to the sewerage.
The section of storm water drain they took out was completely blocked by tree roots so they will probably have to come back with another camera and check out the storm water drain more thoroughly. They could not do that yesterday because it was not on the work order.
Yesterday would not have been cheap; 1 x excavator and 4 x plumbers for 6.5 hours. I do not think we have heard the last of this and all the plumbing dramas are down to next doors’ thick row of extra large hedges and palm trees along the fence line.
The aftermath:
The Council are doing another kerbside rubbish collection so while I was watching that the girls were OK with all the commotion, I took the opportunity to clean out the shed and put our rubbish out on the front verge .. as per usual, I think there will not be much left by the time Council come to collect, half of it has already gone
Around lunch time, with the excavator still on site, I decided that the girls were OK with it and let them out for a lovely afternoon of sunshine. They stayed on the opposite side of the house, pretty close to me, but I was proud of how well they handled the strangers and noise.
I got woken around the 2AM mark by yet another cat fight in our back garden and it sounded very close to the coop and run. On closer inspection this morning, sure enough, tufts of cat hair right next to the run fence directly under the coop. If you remember, KiKi died suddenly on the night of a cat fight and fright could have been a cause. The girls are all OK.
As I have mentioned in the past and at the risk of climbing back on that soap box .. I am a responsible cat owner with indoor cats who have access to an outdoor run, keeping both them, the chickens and the wildlife safe and I am starting to get really p*ssed off with all these cat fights in our yard! I can only imagine how terrifying it must be for the gals to be sitting in the dark only 2 to 3 feet away from a full on howling, spitting, screeching cat fight
Hopefully a Saturday morning chuckle for all:
I was not a fan of the My Family craze and even less of a fan when I saw them in the Newsagent at $9 a piece .. that is over $50 on that window! Anyways, back to stuff I understand ....
Henriettasmum good to read that your flock is recovering. I am a bit late to the party on the whole antibiotic and egg subject, but if the girls have had antibiotics the eggs do get tossed and not fed back to them. I was told somewhere that one month after antibiotics and before going back to eating the eggs is recommended.
On the meal worms, the gals get maybe 3 or 4 large ones each, every afternoon.
Congrats on your swap and new additions, they sound adorable and looking forward to seeing some pics of them.
Fizzybelle good to also read that Annabelle is in good spirits.
SilkieChickStar a bit late to this party also but yep moults, especially hard ones, definitely cause my gals to be pouty and out of sorts.
Aaaw satay I am so very sorry to read of your loss
As mentioned on my last post, the plumbers were here yesterday complete with excavator to fix the broken pipes. As always, it turned out to be a bigger job than expected in that the storm water drain was above the sewerage drain and so that had to be taken out to get to the sewerage.
The section of storm water drain they took out was completely blocked by tree roots so they will probably have to come back with another camera and check out the storm water drain more thoroughly. They could not do that yesterday because it was not on the work order.
Yesterday would not have been cheap; 1 x excavator and 4 x plumbers for 6.5 hours. I do not think we have heard the last of this and all the plumbing dramas are down to next doors’ thick row of extra large hedges and palm trees along the fence line.
The aftermath:
The Council are doing another kerbside rubbish collection so while I was watching that the girls were OK with all the commotion, I took the opportunity to clean out the shed and put our rubbish out on the front verge .. as per usual, I think there will not be much left by the time Council come to collect, half of it has already gone
Around lunch time, with the excavator still on site, I decided that the girls were OK with it and let them out for a lovely afternoon of sunshine. They stayed on the opposite side of the house, pretty close to me, but I was proud of how well they handled the strangers and noise.
I got woken around the 2AM mark by yet another cat fight in our back garden and it sounded very close to the coop and run. On closer inspection this morning, sure enough, tufts of cat hair right next to the run fence directly under the coop. If you remember, KiKi died suddenly on the night of a cat fight and fright could have been a cause. The girls are all OK.
As I have mentioned in the past and at the risk of climbing back on that soap box .. I am a responsible cat owner with indoor cats who have access to an outdoor run, keeping both them, the chickens and the wildlife safe and I am starting to get really p*ssed off with all these cat fights in our yard! I can only imagine how terrifying it must be for the gals to be sitting in the dark only 2 to 3 feet away from a full on howling, spitting, screeching cat fight
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. Whereabouts are you? We didn't even have water restrictions last year.
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but we have an avairy of..let's say maybe 30 other birds? (canaries, finches, budgies and quails) I'm in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. 
