Skinning A Duck
What do you do with a misbehaving drake? Around here, you invite him to dinner!
Small Critters Butchery Workshop
On Friday night I attended a workshop to learn how to bone out rabbits, ducks and chickens.
Record Temperatures And Bushfires Everywhere
The highest average national temperature ever recorded for Australia!
Rubbery Egg
One of the ducks laid a rubbery egg this morning!
A More Secure Chicken Pen
I’ve now fortified the chicken run, so hopefully we won’t have any more trouble with foxes!
Indian Runner Ducklings
Eight Indian Runner ducklings join the growing menagerie!
Chicken Massacre
Foxes broke into our chicken pen and killed everything in sight. Don’t read this post if you’re sensitive!
Muscovy Ducks Arrive
We welcomed two new residents to the homestead this week – a pair of 4-month-old white muscovy ducks named Sir Francis and Louie.
An Assortment of Duck and Chicken Eggs
You get a lot of variations in the size, shape and colour of eggs between different breeds of chickens and ducks. There’s a fair bit of natural variation within a breed, and even with eggs from the same bird. Here’s a lineup of some recent eggs we’ve collected.
Backyard Veggie Patch Workshop in Jamberoo
A few weeks ago I attended another Sustainable Illawarra workshop – “Starting a Backyard Veggie Patch” at Jamberoo Primary School. Megan then attended the repeat of the workshop a week later. It was great that we were both able to do effectively the same workshop without need to organise child care! The workshop was delivered … [Read more…]