the daydream fund challenge thread

alfie_1

evening all....
iv had a sort of productive day.. i have had visitors off and on ALL day !! they seem to know that wednesdays are my "home" day....

i have cleared most of the side strip of overgrown garden down the side of the house, i have put in new fence post line to seperate me from animogs ! giving me more garden area. hacked loads of bamboo out..[got 3 huge clumps of it, but an old boy says he remembers it from the 1940's so havnt the heart to remove it all,]it is quite attractive too, just goes mad at this time of year. iv watered everywhere.... still no rain.!!
talking of eggs...my lot have been kept in thier enclosure for the last two weeks to deter fox problem and iv not had ONE egg ?????? pompous lot have gone on strike !!

LIR.. your chooklets are growing into beauties !!

in between clearing iv done 3 washing machine loads, went out and in dry ! also made tea for all comers. iv just gotin and sat down... oh and i fitted in cleaning out thoroughly the stable but didnt get to do all chook houses.... [sack me !]

CTC...my friend was delighted with her birthday pressies and commented on how lovely the bags were. and I WILL SORT IT WITH YOU !!!

CHOILLE.... my pink fairie has moved into the gooseberry bush !!

ixwood

Alfie, I've read that foxes have infinite patience and will come by every day for years just on the off chance, so not sure that'll work.

Davesnave

No fox involved, but last night one of the Welsummers was stone dead behind the chicken house at 9pm.:( She'd appeared fine right through the day, there wasn't a mark on her and her weight/appearance was good. Any ideas?

Other than that, our eggs are coming along steadily, though with birds moulting they are down a bit. We also have the 'medicated' hen out of production too, so it looks like supply will not be meeting demand again.

lostinrates

Davesnave, its worth remembering for your own records. AFAIK we kno longer have to report unexplained deaths, but its good to be organised about record keeping anyway. Also, for the record, I don't eat anything if I don't know how it died. You know, just in case!


Its really sad, you get to know and care for them.

Lucky man with eggs. I'm threatening mine with more buy ins. If I had tie to get to a poultry sale. Makes me cross. I could have sold eggs most of winter, even just a haf dozen a day, but now I'm siting here grateful if I get two .

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Davesnave, its worth remembering for your own records. AFAIK we kno longer have to report unexplained deaths, but its good to be organised about record keeping anyway. Also, for the record, I don't eat anything if I don't know how it died. You know, just in case!

No, we won't eat her. Might freeze her (well wrapped) until we know others aren't affected by anything. Yes, DW keeps copious notes, though not always useful ones IMO! :rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

turned out to be a nice warm day today.....

I am hooked on Britains got Talent:eek: but i am miffed at the amount of kids going through to the final......

Wish i could just be brave enough and just get rid of the tv.... hubby and the kids would dis-own me, and then i would spend more time on the ol puter....:rotfl:

Davesnave are you going to re arrect the old greenhouse?


Edit.... glad your friend like her gift.....

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Wish i could just be brave enough and just get rid of the tv.... hubby and the kids would dis-own me, and then i would spend more time on the ol puter....:rotfl:.

in my house the radio is on all most of the time, and when it isn't the tv is. I feel ''bad''about this, but I like the noise. I love, love, love the radio but I'm increasingly aware that while receiving so much input I cease to create any output of worth myself! I need to switch off.


No eggs again. We're going to ''enrich'' their dairy and keep them in for the whole weekend. Poor wee beasties.

They look good, but if this fails it will be a ''proper'' worm, as opposed to verm x.

And I found rose buds being attacked to day and greenfly in the garden . Not sure I want to be organic any more!

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Davesnave are you going to re arrect the old greenhouse?...

lostinrates wrote: »

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They look good, but if this fails it will be a ''proper'' worm, as opposed to verm x.

And I found rose buds being attacked to day and greenfly in the garden . Not sure I want to be organic any more!

The old cedar greenhouse cost us £150 second hand 22 years ago. We refurbished it then, but now it's on its last legs. I might be able to salvage some of it for cold frames or something.

Not sure about Verm X myself. I understand all animal medicines will shortly have to prove their efficacy, and I wonder how it will fare then? We've used it a lot, but our chicken-expert vet uses Flubenvet, so we are switching to that now. No egg withdrawal required.

Greenfly are easy enough to kill in an organically-approved way with soft soap based sprays.

rhiwfield

lostinrates wrote: »

And I found rose buds being attacked to day and greenfly in the garden . Not sure I want to be organic any more!

If you leave them you'll probably find that one day they're all gone, courtesy of hoverfly larvae. Its gruesome to see them making their way up the stem hoovering up the aphids!

Been adopting a change is as good as a rest routine and with no babysitting/college run duties this week we've been getting out and bargain hunting. Caerphilly yesterday, mid Wales today.

Gets us away from the building works either side of us as well!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Hi Rhiwfield..

wondering why you have been a bit quiet lately...

It is nice sometimes just to get out and about, and go to diff places,, to see diff things...

must be difficult if you got building work going on, on both sides of you...

looks as though its going to be a 'scorchio' day today here...

dont know what we have planned for the weekend... but i def need to spend some time in the garden.. even if its just having a bbq and drinking a crabbies or two:D