It helps to have a handaxe and a stew pot in hand when you do one of these little 'chats' ! Good luck!!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.
Scott
