Chicken tractor
The chooks have been doing a great job of digging over my garden in preparation for my spring planting. They haven’t touched my raised beds except for all the silverbeet (there is no silverbeet to…
Category Archives: animals
Cruelty-free week 2013
“On average around 300,000 animals per year are used in experimentation, testing and teaching in New Zealand – from cats and dogs to rabbits, deer, mice, rats, fish, birds, pigs and guinea pigs. In 2009…
Milk bottle scoop
I’ve wanted to make a scoop for my chicken food for ages but since we don’t buy milk I had to wait till my MIL gave me a milk bottle. Nothing could be easier simply…
Free range eggs
I only buy free range eggs and have done for years. This is the main reason why I now have my own chooks (not that they are laying yet). If you don’t buy free range…
Chicken poop
If you don’t want to see poop don’t read on… In the grass the other day I saw some some strange looking chicken poop turns out it was only cecal poop so all good. It…
Two new bunnies
Sadly last week my bunny Nijntje passed away and I wasn’t sure if I was going to get another one but here we are two new little bunnies. These bunnies are from the local animal…
Free range chooks
So my girls (the chooks!) are getting huge!!! I can’t get over how much they have grown. Now that the girls are bigger and will eat out of our hands I feel comfortable letting them…
Chickens!!!
So my chooks are finally here!!! So very exciting!!! Introducing my new girls (from left to right); Sage (a grey orpington), Olive (a charcoal/ brown orpington/ wyandotte cross- I hope), Chive (a charcoal orpington) and…
Chicken coop
I love our new chicken coop and hen house. It all looks rather flash and best of all we loads of recycled products. We had access to some old dog runs that we spent a…
Happy new beginnings
Happy new year everyone. Wow we’re almost two weeks into 2013 already!!!I hope everyone has had a wonderful new year with lots of love, happiness and fun. We’ve had a wonderful start to the year…