Chickens

Another Blog I think it's been about a week ?? That was the original idea. Perhaps I should nominate a day and that might make it easier to keep it regular. Then again wow remember an entire week might be a bit of stretch for my cobweb riddled mind.


I'd like to talk about my ever growing family this week. I think that's a basic part of living on the land. You have space you want to benifit from this somehow. I eventually want  the family to be pretty close to being self sufficent and maybe even dream of dreams start bringing in some income from my productivity. Ahhh I can dream.

Since the move date a young pup Izzy (border collie) yes I know I know, perhaps it would have been wise to listen when people warned me that they are a high energy dog need training and work to do. Ahhh 'working dog' well there you have it. Enough about her we are learning. The theory we are following is a combination of speaking with others that own Collies and a small addiction to ceaser millan (sp?) the dog whisperer.

Two Laying Bantams. This involved the building of a chicken house. Not really that cheap to buy the materials as we discovered after snorting in disguist at the price of readymade ones.
 These Bantams were aquired from a great friend and neighbour in order to hatch some fertilised Eggs. Unfortunatley said Bantams became unbroddy on day 18 of the 21 day gestation period of chicks in Eggs resulting in the loss of all chicks : (  
Hatching own chicks round two. Don't ask me why we started with the Eggs I know the question what came first the chicken or the egg, my husband is a man of science and researched the exact type of chickens he wanted for optimal egg production and eating. Myself I'm more a 'oh you don't want that chicken or oh that chickens $2 I'll have that variety' Enough about why we are trying to hatch Eggs rather than just buying some golly gosh chickens.
Anyway back to the story at hand, Incubator was borrowed for the hatching of chicks. Day 21 yes I believe that's the day that they hatch, power cut ! oh dear some one out there is telling us not to own chickens. Power cut lasted roughly 5hrs one chick was born during cut and was able to be revived by being placed in the steamer over a bowl of boiled water. (thankfully we have a gas cooker so water could still be boiled, water from the jug as none of our taps work during power cuts as you need an electric pump to pump water out of tanks). Power returned that night and chicks continued to hatch into the next day. Two did not hatch and were helped out of shell by worried husband ( this might be a no no but i don't think they were going to come out by themselves we could be wrong) one of these 'helped' chickens was fine. The other unfortunately couldn't move half of it's body so is no longer with us. As I type I have 17 happy little two day old chicks cheeping around in a box under a light next to me. Now lets hope they all survive and there aren't too many boys. The plan is to keep all the girls and one boy and eat the rest of the boys.

We have goats moving in on boxing day a girl and a boy. The girl shall be turned into a nanny goat and the boy might be dinner. Man it's tough to be a boy on a farm! I am currently in the process of trying to purchase a good shelter for these goats to use . I'm thinking a really big dog house or a really small shed ? What ever it is hopefully we won't be building it this time .

That's it that's us. The family so far one one mother, one father, two sons, 1 dog, 2 chickens, 17 chicks and soon to be 2 goats.

I haven't spoken about how the core family are doing so far. Mother me I'm good with all the Christmas merriment just jolly busy with all the added responsibility for my growing brood. The father, he's well,  pretty tired with trying to build a lovely deck at the moment. The big boy Fin is great in love with his dog fairly interested in his chicks also. The little guy Charlie, in love with his dog, couldn't give a monkeys about the chicks. And mums looking forward to him having a deck to crawl around on , hopefully it will be a bit better for him than the current outdoor options of rocks or clay.

Hello to my new blog

First day blogging. My hopes for this blog is that it will be a great place to record my feeling and what not during the daily grind and JOYs of being a young stay at home mum to two young boys . I hope there won't be too much whinging but i can't promise anything. I hope my grammar won't be too painful, but yes it will often be incorrect and rushed. I hope my writing will be slightly interesting but my first and foremost need for a blog is to write because I love writing (doh should have put that as an intrest ) and to just let out some steam. As any stay at home parent knows the toughest part is the time spent at home without other adults for company.

My name is Ruth I have two boys Finley 3yo and Charlie 1yo. I have recently moved from the suburbs to a lifestyle block in the country. I am finding good and bad things about life rurally. It is definatley different in that you need to drive to go anywhere and that the closest anywhere to go to is 20min drive away. I have joined some playgroups as staying at home like I said earlier drives me batty. I think it's better for me and better for the children that we spend time with other familys.

Finley is coming up to 3 and is very much like myself, shy and lacking in confidence. Which is really sad because obviously the only way to help him with these things is to work really hard to overcome them in myself. btw please please please no mean feedback I'm a sensitive soul and trying to boost my confidence and deal with my feelings rather than lower my confidence and keep my feeling inside.  He is a very very loving boy and adores me his father and his baby brother. He is great once he is enjoying things he just takes a bit longer than most kids to feel comftorable in new situations.

Charlie has just turned one today ! Happy birthday my baby :( cliquihe time I can't believe he's one already blah blah blah it's gone so fast ) He is a very happy little man who is quite happy in any new situation and great at entertaining himself. Loves all new people and just generally a real pleasure to mother.

Husband the nicest man in the world willl try not to write too much about him . Our marriage is pretty happy and he does his best to help out where he can and put up with me when i'm having a tough day with our boys. Off course there are times when I feel that he just doesn't understand , and off course he doesn't how could he ? How could I expect him too he doesn't live it everyday.

Me as i said before I can be shy and lacking in confidence which are my least favourite things about myself. I had my babies very early by todays standards I had a daughter at 16yo, although i was a very young 16 and she has been adopted by a loving family that were in a much better position to provide her with a stable life than a 16yo girl. 3yrs later I met my now husband , at 21yrs we were married at 22 I had our first son Fin and at 24 our second son Charlie was born. Our family is now complete although part of me would love love love to try just one more time for another child (maybe a girl?? )  I know I know I shouldn't say that . I absolutley love my boys to death but won't lie and say that I wouldn't enjoy being a mother to a daughter. I'm also thinking its time for me to start to start to think about training (now) and entering the workforce when my youngest starts school. I don't know if I have a passion so it makes it a bit tricky when trying to decide what i want to study towards. I want to have a job I enjoy and that I am proud to tell people about when they asked that question 'so what do you do ?'

Goodness is that about average length or a bit of ramble hoping it wasn't to personal ? Not sure how personal one should be when blogging . I promise not to be too serious all the time but thought i better introduce myself honestly and openly. Very exctied about starting a blog and plan to update once a week. Goodness I hope I can be a bit funnier in the future I love funny blogs.