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Wee Farmer Sarah said:
Hi Jan & Fiona. Welcome to BYC! Glad you joined our happy flock. Congratulations on your new journey with farming and the lovely wee ones hatching. I'm guessing you don't have Amazon.com there? Sorry, I know, spoiled American. Check to see if you can access Borderoo. They are a shopping service with connections to Amazon. Hopefully they can give you more shopping options. Best of luck.
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Hi Sarah, the Wee Farmer...daresay from Scottish descent?
Fiona is a Campbell of Argylle.
Amazon... not likely to deliver here, unless they accept coordinates as an address!
My colleague is currently in South Africa and hopefully he'll be able to bring some power feed back to us soon. Adams more eggs as it seems that we have only 4 chicks from the original 30 eggs. Four little fluffy miracles after a lot of prayer and devotion.
Regards
Jan & Fiona Aucamp
 
Hi, Jan! There's lots of good protein you can raise for your chickens for yourself. You may want to look into insects. Here in the USA crickets, hissing cockroaches, mealworms, earthworms, black soldier flies and many other insects are raised for feeding fish, reptiles, etc. I imagine there are insects cultivated in Africa. Perhaps you could have a small insect farm to help feed your chickens. Worm bins are easy and you could make them out of scrap lumber, plastic bins, corrugated metal or even rough cut wood. They eat rotting food, poop and plant matters (dead leaves, etc.) and provide compost for your vegetables as well. Could be a good option.

Peas and beans are also good options for feeding chickens protein and are easy to grow all over the world.

Chickens will also happily eat meat scraps if you can source them safely. Ground up and cooked.

Good luck!
 
Meg-in-MT said:
Hello! Welcome to BYC!! :frow

Great job getting them to hatch. Hope everything works out well for you and your family.

Feel free to check out the links below for some interesting reading. Good luck to you!​
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Hi Meg
The total hatch: 4. 13.4% success. Having had to deal with variables way beyond our control, 4 out of 30 is actually not bad.
I switched off the life support this morning and ditched the remaining 11 eggs. Three had dead embryos inside while the other 8 were halfway there. What a shame.
It is a street though.
Good to have heard from Down Under. Go well and thank you.
Regards
Jan & Fiona Aucamp
 
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ChocolateMouse said:
Hi, Jan! There's lots of good protein you can raise for your chickens for yourself. You may want to look into insects. Here in the USA crickets, hissing cockroaches, mealworms, earthworms, black soldier flies and many other insects are raised for feeding fish, reptiles, etc. I imagine there are insects cultivated in Africa. Perhaps you could have a small insect farm to help feed your chickens. Worm bins are easy and you could make them out of scrap lumber, plastic bins, corrugated metal or even rough cut wood. They eat rotting food, poop and plant matters (dead leaves, etc.) and provide compost for your vegetables as well. Could be a good option.

Peas and beans are also good options for feeding chickens protein and are easy to grow all over the world.

Chickens will also happily eat meat scraps if you can source them safely. Ground up and cooked.

Good luck!
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Dear Chocolate Mouse
Thank you for really good advice. Those indeed are brilliant sources of protein. Indeed.
We should be moving to a large farm shortly where things would be a whole lot different from where we are now.
We live in a stinking, dirty, noisy backwater town. Generally people in Dark Africa don't cultivate insects or things like meal worms. They are here. You don't have to cultivate them. This really is the third world and Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world.
Once we've moved, free ranging might be happening keeping in mind things like birds of prey and other animals such as monetary lizards, snakes and stray dogs.
We grew up in Africa and this is how things are.
Warm regards
Jan & Fiona Aucamp
 
Dear Extended Family
We decided to switch off the life support this morning. Eleven more eggs ditched. There were 30. Too many odds and variables beyond our control. My friend and colleague is in South Africa where this are a whole lot different from Mozambique. Maybe smuggle a few more eggs? Definitely. It is easier to get a pardon rather than permission. Upgrade to a better incubator? Definitely again.
We're moving to a large farm with that huge plantation house and lots of space and quiet. Can't wait. Making the house habitable now. Painting and new plumbing. We have light now. Soon, not soon enough.
My immediate family... my lovely Scottish wife's Fiona, colleague and best friend Gawie, who is 22 years younger and a world of experience from the USA behind him. Two dogs and a Moluccan parrot. And of course four gorgeous, fluffy Buff Orpington chicks. On the farm...two crocodiles and a small herd of cattle. 30 strong.
TIA. This Is Africa.
It is good to meet all of you friendly and helpful like minded inhabitants of the Third Rock from the Sun.
Friendly greetings
Jan & Fiona Aucamp
 

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