You may remember our 3 feathered friends from an early post. These girls served us well and supplied our family with a nice amount of eggs. Since we had gotten these three as adults we had no idea how old they were and how much longer they would lay for us. We had reached a…
In line with trying to reduce our waste products I thought I would share what happens to all our kitchen and garden scraps. We are trying not to let any biodegradable products go into the rubbish bin, so here is what happens to all that waste. Leafy greens and certain other veggie offcuts go to…
I am so happy to report that two of my ladies are laying. We got our first egg 4 days ago, then one the next day and the next. Nothing yesterday.Then this morning I heard quite a bit of noise so went to watch them. I found 2 of them nesting. Went back a little…
About a 5/6 weeks ago w got 2 hens. They were not layers, just farm chickens from my sister-in-law who lives in Hluhluwe (a small town about 350km north of us). They were still quite young and didn’t lay any eggs. One morning a troop of monkeys came through our garden and I can only…