killer rooster

A while back a friend and I swapped roosters , she had 3 hens and a rooster that were brother and siters. I had three hens and rooster that were also brother and sister. All gold lace wyndotte. Made sense to swap so we could still hatch 'purebreed' chicks. I use the term purebreed fairly loosely as our gwd were hatched from eggs we purchased on trademe and our friends gwd's were given to her by a kind chap who works at sheepworld. All went well she hatched out 9 chicks , we never hatched any as Nev decided he doesn't like gwds and wants to breed barnavalders instead. The friend had told me my rooster , the one living at her house had been attacking people and would I like to swap back, no reason not to, she had finished breeding and we were not going to breed anyway. Sunday we swapped roosters. Monday morning the boys and I decided to back some chocolate brownies for kindy, we needed two eggs of to the chicken house we went. We all went through the gate together as we always do 1 min later Charlie runs towards me with a rooster flying onto his back scratching him I give the rooster a good kick and he backs of, we retrive our eggs and head for the gate, at which point rooster flys at Finley to attack him. Needless to say we will not be keeping rooster at our farm and Nev has strict instuctions to bop him on the head when he gets home. The boys were not doing anything to provoke the rooster he is just horrible. The rooster managed to draw blood on both Finley and Charlie.
So thats it bye bye rooster no second chance after that.

The ducks are very happy , just trying to figure out who's a boy and who's a girl at the moment. I'm thinking we have three boys and one girls. The boys quack and the girls squeak and there seems to be a whole lot of quaking going on out there.

Another big change this week  came about after a small accidental purchase on my part. I found an auction on Trademe for 50 fejioa trees for $50, the trees were all around one mtr tall so it was a pretty good deal. The only down side to the auction was the fact that the trees needed to be dug up from the property within two days. Young Nev arrived from his relaxing boys fishing weekend to the news that he had a small job to do. We hired the trailer wednesday night and drove around to my mums place where two of her houseguests had volunteered to help out. The men set of to dig up the trees and the boys and I had a nice relaxing meal at nannas place. We have hedged two sides of our yard with the trees and it looks great. We need to keep them well watered and hopefully they all live. We will finish the hedge with some other trees along the front of the yard, because we really don't need more fejioa trees then we all ready have.

Last update is that we have a green house . My Nanna and grand dad have decided to get rid of their green house so we picked that up on saturday. Very exciting but I imagine we won't get the time to put that up for a while as the project that needs to happen before that is sheep yards so we can shear our sheep again before the get dirty bottoms. The last time they were sheared involved moving them all to another property and was a bit of a nightmare so it will be great to be able to do that at home.

Another eventful week on the farm . I'm sure it will slow down soon, certainly after a few more years we won't have this many things to do all the time , surely. Eventually this farm will start paying us back a bit more .....

back to it

Right new year better start blogging again.

Farm update. Toby the cat is great he still lives outside but will happily smooch around with anybody on the deck, and he is catching mice. Billy the goat has gone as he started escaping and eating gardens. Jean the goat is currently having a holiday at her boyfriends house for the month. Sheep are still sheeping about in the paddock. Chickens are good loads of eggs all healthy and happy. The newest addition the the farm are 4 young runner ducks who are living in the farm around our pond. Vegie beds are all up and running and planter boxes around the deck are going great too.

Family update, Finley is attending kindy mon, tues, wed half days. Charlie is still doing one day a week with his childminder but will change to kindy when her boy starts school in april. Boys are getting along pretty well these days still a bit of fighting but they seem to play together as well so that balances things out a bit.
Neville is still working the two jobs, he is on a health kick at the moment and has just purchased himself a new pair of running shoes good stuff.
Me I am childminding one girl two days a week at the moment. With the boys due to start three days a week at the end of the month. My study is all set for this year either starting sememter one or two due to fee issues.  I'm finishing up the home help as soon as the agency I'm working for can find another carer to help my one and only client.

These blogs are unfortunatley going to be photoless for a little while as I misplaced my camera at the end of the year and haven't replaced it yet, I might just sneak in some recycled photo's until I get myself organised to get a new one.

Current projects on the farm front are a: sheep yards and b: dirt and rocks to finish lawn and drive way.

 Finley looking happy on a tractor

Charlie having a dip