Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

[Hungarylife]

I've only just seen your post about life and hatching in the Phillipines.

We live in Hungary. We sold up and left UK 2 1/2 years ago. We have a small (and I do mean small) pension income and neither of us are anywhere near state pension age.

So, we knew we had to be as self sufficient as possible. This year we will probably be self sufficient in vegetables except potatoes and onions. There is a problem with Colorado Beetle here so we decided not to grow them. Potatoes and onions are cheap enough to buy.

We have numerous fruit trees and a Walnut tree. These are bad this year as we had a bad spring and the fruit got knocked off and damaged by cold and high winds.

We have sheep, geese, chickens (meat and eggs) and a GSD who adopted us. We buy ducklings from the market to bring on for meat.

I am on my first hatch of chicken eggs, it's very nerve wracking isn't it?

I have never worked so hard in all my life and don't know how long we will be able to keep up the pace!

It was really interesting reading all about your experiences in your country.

Like you, we miss some things from the UK, particularly sea food.

But overall, we enjoy our life here, even though I miss my kids, they are adults now with their own lives and careers and we Skype regularly, but I still miss them.

 

[ozexpat]

I've only just seen your post about life and hatching in the Phillipines.

We live in Hungary. We sold up and left UK 2 1/2 years ago. We have a small (and I do mean small) pension income and neither of us are anywhere near state pension age. 

So, we knew we had to be as self sufficient as possible. This year we will probably be self sufficient in vegetables except potatoes and onions. There is a problem with Colorado Beetle here so we decided not to grow them. Potatoes and onions are cheap enough to buy.

We have numerous fruit trees and a Walnut tree. These are bad this year as we had a bad spring and the fruit got knocked off and damaged by cold and high winds.

We have sheep, geese, chickens (meat and eggs) and a GSD who adopted us. We buy ducklings from the market to bring on for meat.

I am on my first hatch of chicken eggs, it's very nerve wracking isn't it?

I have never worked so hard in all my life and don't know how long we will be able to keep up the pace!

It was really interesting reading all about your experiences in your country.

Like you, we miss some things from the UK, particularly sea food.

But overall, we enjoy our life here, even though I miss my kids, they are adults now with their own lives and careers and we Skype regularly, but I still miss them.

Welcome to the thread. There are lots of expats on here from am areas of the world.

 

[ozexpat]

My time zone funk had me up at 330am

Its a public holiday here so the construction guys are taking the day off.

Mrs oz has been forced out of our bed by the kids and into Lorenzo's trundle bed. The kids sleep with a foot or arm touching me

It's a nice feeling too be home

 

[Tomtommom]

Welcome to the thread. There are lots of expats on here from am areas of the world.

Yup. Expat from Holland to the US.

My time zone funk had me up at 330am

Its a public holiday here so the construction guys are taking the day off.

Mrs oz has been forced out of our bed by the kids and into Lorenzo's trundle bed. The kids sleep with a foot or arm touching me

It's a nice feeling too be home

That made me smile. I can only imagine how much y'all miss eachother when you're gone. Mrs.Oz is a strong and brave woman.

 

[scottcaddy]

My time zone funk had me up at 330am

Its a public holiday here so the construction guys are taking the day off.

Mrs oz has been forced out of our bed by the kids and into Lorenzo's trundle bed. The kids sleep with a foot or arm touching me

It's a nice feeling too be home

It is hard to forget how touchie-feelie little ones are, if I don't/can't touch you, your not here!

Hugs to you and yours!!
ETA-fat fingers
Scott

 

[joannefiddler]

Oz, the smiles on the faces of your children are priceless. Rich rewards for all the time, effort, and heartaches along the way to making them "yours".

I don't think I had any mental image of what AI process looked like...now I do! Thanks for that picture.

Enjoy your time to the max

 

[ozexpat]

Thanks guys.

It's 4am on Tuesday morning. The construction guys will be here in an hour. They like to start at day break and beast the heat.

As it's a new job I will be up with them. We picked up 15 sheets of plywood for the flooring of the first 5 new coops.

We have an abundance of lumber from coco trees that were harvested for their hearts.

We will need around 10 lengths of bamboo and 300 pieces of thatch roofing

 

[DaveOmak]

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...... I'm in for the build.... just like a kid.... I love watching a good build.....

 

[vehve]

Oz, you should get some sort of webcam up that would take pictures of the build every 15 minutes, that way you could supervise the progress, and it would make for a really cool time lapse video.

 

[ozexpat]

We finished the staking of the coops. The foundation trenches have begun but rains put a stop to work so they switched to building the nest boxes this afternoon.