Flock/Life Journey's 2019

[KLIL]

[QUOTE="Anna Ranieri, post: 20874691, member: 516523" Must be like living in paradise with all the amazing wild life you guys have over there.

It’s lovely seeing wildlife but then my ex sends me a pic of the king brown he killed yesterday so that tempers it a bit

With all the chick pics I forgot to say that I got my girls home on Thursday! Haven’t had time to build the coop yet so they’ve been “cooped up” in my little eBay one since then, let them out for some supervised free range today which brought my neighbour over to the fence. She’s lived in that house my whole life, said that she knew I’d have chooks because I was always down in the chooks pen as a kid lol. Any way here’s my big girls having a peck around the new yard
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Hard to believe this yard was so over grown and green just 2 weeks ago and flooded 2 weeks before that! The harsh qld sun shows no mercy that’s for sure[/QUOTE]

I havent had a snake to deal with yet. But it will happen I can see it already.
Im not scared of snakes but my partner is. He wont hold them when we see them at friends houses or zoos but im start in there!

Your new babies are just adorable! Have they got names yet?

 

[KLIL]

It’s lovely seeing wildlife but then my ex sends me a pic of the king brown he killed yesterday so that tempers it a bit

With all the chick pics I forgot to say that I got my girls home on Thursday! Haven’t had time to build the coop yet so they’ve been “cooped up” in my little eBay one since then, let them out for some supervised free range today which brought my neighbour over to the fence. She’s lived in that house my whole life, said that she knew I’d have chooks because I was always down in the chooks pen as a kid lol. Any way here’s my big girls having a peck around the new yard
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Hard to believe this yard was so over grown and green just 2 weeks ago and flooded 2 weeks before that! The harsh qld sun shows no mercy that’s for sure

Gorgeous girls! Love the colours, the crisp white and Auburn tinted brown, very pretty ladies.
Had to google king brown - lovely looking snake (I am a snake fan) but the fact that its known to have bitten people while they are sleeping, made me shudder, so you can keep that one!
I've forgotten what grass looks like - last summer was a record breaker for us here, we had a drought lasting about 6 -7 weeks, I had to choose between watering the grass or filling the ducks pool, ducks won hands down - our grass got so burned, coming into Autumn we had less than half our grass left, then with a mixture of constant rain, ducks drilling and chickens eating what few blades of grass were left, we are now down to a back garden which is complete mud [/QUOTE]

Gorgeous girls! Love the colours, the crisp white and Auburn tinted brown, very pretty ladies.
Had to google king brown - lovely looking snake (I am a snake fan) but the fact that its known to have bitten people while they are sleeping, made me shudder, so you can keep that one!
I've forgotten what grass looks like - last summer was a record breaker for us here, we had a drought lasting about 6 -7 weeks, I had to choose between watering the grass or filling the ducks pool, ducks won hands down - our grass got so burned, coming into Autumn we had less than half our grass left, then with a mixture of constant rain, ducks drilling and chickens eating what few blades of grass were left, we are now down to a back garden which is complete mud

Yes king brown is quite a nice looking snake but highly venemous and nasty.

Sadly parts of our country have been in drought for years now, my town is surrounded by farm land and many farmers are finding it hard. Further west it’s worse, people who’ve been on the land for generations are having to sell up because they just can’t go on. We had a wet December but it’s just not enough to fix the damage.[/QUOTE]

@ChristieB is right. Some farms have been in drought for years but what's also sad is some farms can't cope with the debt they are in and having to kill some of their stock because they can't afford to feed them or they haven't had water they are so skinny and sick. A lot of farms have been committing suicide. Its really devastating.

 

[KLIL]

Morning all

Evening to those in Aus

Good morning from Aus
I was out late last night got home after 12pm.
How are you?

 

[KLIL]

My flocks doing just fine. We got some squats from the young ones so hoping for some eggs soon, despite the temperature in the 10s (*F) and the upcoming storm.

Yayyy! Squats! You will have eggs in no time! I love when they start doing that.

 

[KLIL]

Coop Building Update:
I have another $50 to go towards my chicken coop build. I was told not to spend it on booze and strippers but.

 

[sassysarah]

Beautiful horses!! Lucky you!

Thank you! I love them!

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning from Aus
I was out late last night got home after 12pm.
How are you?

Tired but good. Just made a feed run. We got 56mm of rain since midnight...

 

[KLIL]

Tired but good. Just made a feed run. We got 56mm of rain since midnight...

Geezzz thats alot! So everything is extremely muddy and Squishy?

 

[HuffleClaw]

Coop Building Update:
I have another $50 to go towards my chicken coop build. I was told not to spend it on booze and strippers but.

Booze and strippers? Thank God I’m a good girl, I wouldn’t ever do that

 

[KLIL]

Booze and strippers? Thank God I’m a good girl, I wouldn’t ever do that

I drink. I would go to the strippers but my partner isn't interested in it so wouldn't take me lol.