This Sustainable House

Rosemary Pratt:

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.