Making chicken feed of my mortgage

Pearla*Merle

Hellooooooo MWC! I don't think I've managed to pipe up in here yet I've been doing a major catch up (so long overdue!), glad to see you're still doing well - LOVING the photos and tales of adventure! (& supermarket vouchers, we've had a spate of those lately as well, fun times :T).

I presume you're still walking marathon-like distances every day? I'll soon be flailing mindlessly behind you once more (new fitbit arriving soon :j no idea how the other one died, glad to get back into action soon though )

muddywhitechicken

Pearla*Merle wrote: »

I presume you're still walking marathon-like distances every day?

I wish... 20,000+ steps on Saturday but otherwise hardly any

Working this evening (reviewing a report... dire :mad:), would much rather be out walking

muddywhitechicken

Mr MWC is listening to experimental Japanese psychedelic rock :eek:

It's very scary - I might be going to bed sooner than I thought!

muddywhitechicken

It's been a lovely day with MSE chums :j

We went on a (free :T) guided walk with the town historian this morning and then had lunch in the garden. Mr MWC cooked a delicious slow-roast lamb dish with feta, peppers and dill :drool: Dessert was made by my fair hands! Gooseberry & hazelnut slices made with goosegogs from the garden

From talking to people today, it seems that Thursday night's storm did quite a bit of damage - I slept through it.

In money-related news, Mr MWC's shares are doing really well at the moment - up by nearly $9/share (~4%) yesterday alone :T - so we're a little richer on paper today

Alchemilla

So...you did say I could ask...
chicken questions

what breed do you have and how many?
are rats a problem?
do they cost more than you get in eggs?

Thank you.

muddywhitechicken

Alchemilla wrote: »

So...you did say I could ask...
chicken questions

what breed do you have and how many?
are rats a problem?
do they cost more than you get in eggs?

Thank you.

Ask away Al!

I currently have 6 hybrids - a white star (white chicken, white eggs), a skyline (ginger/grey chicken, green eggs - I've also had skylines that laid pale blue or cream eggs), a speckledy (mottled grey/white chicken, brown eggs with dark brown speckles), a Columbian blacktail (ginger chicken, mid-brown eggs), a bluebelle (grey chicken, light brown eggs) and a maran cuvree (black/copper chicken, brown eggs).

Not for us - no evidence of rats in the 8 years we've kept chooks (including a pest control survey when we had the squirrel in the loft issue last year).

Yes - they are very spoilt pets! Although if I only fed them chicken feed & kitchen scraps, I'd probably break even by selling the eggs that are surplus to requirement*.

* Excluding the cost of the coop & run.

MWCx

Alchemilla

I love that you have one of each. Can you fill an egg box with all different coloured eggs?
Do you use an eglu?
Thank you.

muddywhitechicken

Alchemilla wrote: »

I love that you have one of each. Can you fill an egg box with all different coloured eggs?
Do you use an eglu?
Thank you.

Yes - photo from earlier in the year (including the late Miss B's little cream egg).

I started with a green eglu classic with an extended run and now I have an orange eglu cube in a walk-in run.

muddywhitechicken

A lovely day out in London town - the Magna Carta exhibition at The British Library, lunch at a Peruvian restaurant in Soho and plenty of walking :cool:

~40,000 steps this weekend :T

Alchemilla

Brilliant pic!
Do all the girls get on with each other?