Looks like more rain coming here. We had nearly 4" last week, things are just finally drying out and it's supposed to start today and rain every day for a week. Time to fit my chickens with flippers I think.
I have tarps up everywhere, looks like tent city out back. I've decided once I get my new engine, new coops are a priority.
Speaking of the engine, I've got my car booked in for a new engine in a couple of weeks, put a serious crimp in the budget, that's for sure. Poor girl though, with over 500,000km on the clock I'll forgive her for being a bit tired. Opinions seem to be evenly split between 'She's worked hard, she deserves it.' to 'Your crazy! Just buy a new car.' I guess it would be crazy if I hadn't spent so much on keeping her going over the last couple of years. Almost the only old bit left is the body.
How is everyone's hatching going? I have a broody at the moment and I'm debating popping eggs in the incubator. I'm kinda afraid I'll keep hatching roos at the rate I was before. I have at least 20 of them to deal with at the moment, I keep looking at them wondering how I ended up with so many and so few pullets. At least my pullets are laying now so I'm getting a decent number of eggs to cover some of the feed bill. I'm trying to decide which roos to keep, there are so many pretty ones.
I had planed to hatch some Araucana eggs from my nasty roo but he was so bad at the end I'm not sure I want to take a chance on more with his temperament. I would like some more for colored eggs though, I'll have to decide soon.
Ducky, I could sure use some of your ducks at the moment, the rain has brought out
heaps of snails and slugs. They are showing way to much interest in my veggie patch. Freshly planted seedlings, nom, nom, nom.
