the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

nothing done outside at all but we are nor lighter one horrid manky carpet. |we found icky stained jclothes underneath. I slung up a heat lamp for the dogs, but they are avoiding it, one sleeping out of the lit zone, flat out on the concrete. I don't know how she manages, I'm bitterly cold!

choille

I seem to have buzzards living on the croft & every day they are up there quartering it - doing the rounds but I have never had a hen nor chick taken by a buzzard.

Wonderful with the toms growing - my garden got left to its own devises somewhat but I have some purple brocoli on the go which is nice.

lostinrates

Buzzards have taken from us in Somerset. I saw one take a hen, a maran, the others were really upset by it. I learned from that to keep a scarer out.

I'm guessing up round you Choille, there is easy prey away from populated places.

choille

LIR - I don't know if it's easy or not, although we were infested with pidgeons, the buzzards seem to view them as sport, taking them on the wing. keep finding piles of feathers & less of them sitting on the house ridge, or nicking the hens grain.

We have a sort of thrush with a broken wing living under the caravan & feeding with the hens & sort of hopping after them - I don't know if it'll survive the Winter.

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

We have a sort of thrush with a broken wing living under the caravan & feeding with the hens & sort of hopping after them - I don't know if it'll survive the Winter.

at least its happy for now. Last winter we had a wag tail with one deformed/useless leg that fed with the chickens and hopped about. He didn;t make it, .

choille

Nature eh?

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

Nature eh?

I know. Beautiful but harsh.

I am delighted to say I have found my missing camera.....my autumn clean is always a bit more exciting than the spring clean, cause in spring I want to be outside more, lol. I found it in a box I've been using as a dumping ground for months

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Hi All,


sorry ( again ) i havent been around much... just getting back into my stride after deciding not to go any further with the land, and a bad dose of a very heavy cold...

not much to report really except, flip the time is really flying by....

I know its the wrong time of the year, but as we havent hatched anything this year. i am itching to buy some eggs on ebay and get the small incubator up and running.... will see if anything takes my fancy on fleabay.

right off now as my chicken dinner needs dishing up

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Hi All,
sorry ( again ) i havent been around much...

No need for apologies; it's your thread and you didn't make it compulsory!

But seriously, there are those weeks when nothing much seems to happen and they're necessary too, if only so we can re-charge our biological batteries...or get over a nasty cold.

ATM I'm spending more than half the week on my own, as DW is still helping out a recuperating family member elsewhere.:( So, although I'd like to be re-roofing one of the hideous wood store barns, I'm stuck without a builder's mate; hence the hedge maintenance. It's something I can do alone and without much danger so long as I'm just using hand tools.

Pete brought a ram here this week to do what rams do. I'm used to his teasing now, but it was his sister who warned me, "Watch out, he's dangerous!" when I approached him...... Fooled again!!!:mad::o
Last year, Pete told me a different ram was, "lovely & friendly," and again, that wasn't strictly true.

lostinrates

Not sure what to bring in and when from the weather this year. I have some this year sown lavender in pots that would probably benefit from shelter, some potted roses (for the garden that was meant to be being planted round about now had the kitchen gone ahead this summer) and the figs, oh, and the lemon, all on my list to bring in. I think the rest will have to tough it outside, and in fact, I'm considering leaving two of the figs out well protected. Oh, and the burnt sugar tree can come in, as its in a pot still.