Welcome to WWOOFER
June 29th, 2010
On Monday 21st a new WWOOFer ( Willing Workers On Organic Farms) arrived to help me with a few tasks. So far she has been exceedingly helpful with providing feedback on a course of study (pregnancy testing in cattle), assisting with animal husbandry, fencing and a few odd jobs.
Whilst she is here, a little more than a month or so, we will also finish the chicken dome, acquire a couple of new cows (perhaps) and fence a couple of new paddocks.
For more information on the WWOOF scheme, please go to the links page.
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You’ll need your WOOFer to help put the wire on the dome!!Good luck with the dome project.My nine girls and Mr Clogs their overseer are working diligently on site three.If you have running grass sites be prepared for hours of work digging out the runners after you move the dome.If you don’t have running grass – be thankful! My site 1 is ready for planting up as soon as the fence goes up.Site 2 is nearly free of Kikuyu runners.After a lot of research I have decided to go with a floppy top 1600ml chook wire fence.Three of the girls have begun to lay – it’s still a novelty to open the frig and see lovely home grown eggs,all diffrernt colours.I trod on one today because Lady Ping Cochin takes about two hours to lay her eggs and she was hogging the single nest box.Poor Dotty Wyandotte was forced to lay on the ground nearby.I have added another nest box . The Linda Woodrow mower catcher nest box works well.I have solved the problem of all the straw being constantly scratched out by lining the catcher with an old piece of artificial grass type door mat.It’s not scratched out and I can easily wash it .My old grassy hay mulch was abandoned when I learned that damp hay can make chooks very ill,fortunately before I used any.I did have the bales weighing down the dome’s wire skirt but I am now using heavy logs to have the hay right away from the chooks.Looking forward to your updates.
Hi Rosemary
It sounds as though things are coming along very nicely. I especially liked your ingenuity with regards the nest boxes… Excellent suggestion.
Good luck with the floppy fence, I have heard that they can be quite effective. I have decided to go with a 1.8m fence around my vege garden with a series of ‘hot wires’ around the top to discourage climbing. The hot wires won’t add much to the cost of the job as they will just draw off my existing electric fences.
Cheers
Shane