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Keeping Animals »

[22 Aug 2011 | 13 Comments | ]
Meet Jessie, The Red Kelpie Pup

Meet Jessie, our new family pet and future livestock fox defence system.

Weekly Roundup »

[18 Jul 2011 | 5 Comments | ]
Weekly Roundup – Outfoxing Foxes

Various resources for keeping foxes and poultry separated, chook pen designs, fencing, a chicken feeder, and the Australian FeralScan web site.

Keeping Animals »

[14 Jul 2011 | 37 Comments | ]
Chicken Massacre

Foxes broke into our chicken pen and killed everything in sight. Don’t read this post if you’re sensitive!

Growing Food, Keeping Animals, Media Coverage, Super Challenge »

[25 May 2011 | 5 Comments | ]
Podcast Interview With Gavin From “The Greening of Gavin”

I was interviewed by Gavin Webber from The Greening Of Gavin as part of a series of podcasts he’s done with sustainable bloggers from around Australia. Let me know what you think!

Keeping Animals »

[21 Feb 2011 | 7 Comments | ]
Missing Hen Returns With Chicks

Our missing hen returns with a pleasant surprise for us – four gorgeous little chicks!

Growing Food, Keeping Animals, Permaculture »

[20 Nov 2010 | 15 Comments | ]
Plants For The Chicken Run

Some ideas for food, medicinal and other useful plants you can place in and around your chicken run for healthy, happy chickens.

Keeping Animals »

[18 Oct 2010 | 10 Comments | ]
An Alternative Broody Hen Solution

If you’ve got a broody hen, rather than trying to “break her” why not let her raise a clutch of eggs? It requires almost no effort on your part, and is a lot of fun.

Keeping Animals »

[21 Sep 2010 | 22 Comments | ]
The Big Pig Project 2010

In our quest to eat more sustainably, we’ve been experiencing what it’s like to raise our own animals for meat. So far it’s only been chickens, but we just raised the bar another notch with the addition of three pigs to the back yard!

Aren’t they adorable? These little guys are super-cute, and you could sit [...]

Growing Food »

[10 Aug 2010 | 11 Comments | ]
Bird Nets For Garden Beds

We have a real problem here with wild birds eating our seedlings. They love broccoli, lettuce, beans, beetroot, silverbeet, corn – they even pulled out some of our onions and garlic!

Don’t get me wrong, I love the birds – satin bowerbirds andĀ purple swamphens are the main offenders – I just wish they’d leave our gardens [...]

Keeping Animals »

[7 Aug 2010 | 8 Comments | ]
Chicks Taken By Predator!

Some sad news, I’m afraid – two of the three chicks that Girlie hatched have disappeared.

We’d left Girlie and the chicks in the main chicken run, since they had a safe indoor area that the rooster can’t get into (the entrance is just small enough that he can’t/won’t go in). Things had been going well, [...]