Things Projecty and Farmy
Had a realisation this weekend that this could be a handy place to record other stuff, kind of like the log/almanac I always mean to use but never do....
So last Monday this little guy woke me up;
Only 11 weeks till chop day if it's a boy.
Interesting to note the low hatch rates this year, after an exceptionally dry winter. This white hen normally hatches 10-15 chicks per clutch and one of the brown hens gave up on her clutch of 8 eggs, although there were a couple of decent thunderstorms in there as well.
Given that my one solitary duck is laying I might invest of borrow an incubator to hatch out some more gal pals for her, so that the boys stop rogering her every 10-15 seconds. She's starting to waddle kind of funny.
Spent a couple of hours on Saturday morning working the bees, reorganised things in the hives from all ideals to having a couple of full-depth supers in. Populated them with 50-50 ideal comb and full-depth foundation, so that I can build up a stock of full depth comb.
Also took our first harvest of honey;
Very yummy.
Spent Saturday Afternoon and most of Sunday making gothic arch chairs for the Barony, with Miss A, Mr W and Mr D. These will look very funky once painted and setup up behind High table.
Now I'm trapped in the land of day one back at work after the change-over to daylight savings, sucky sucky ball balls.
So last Monday this little guy woke me up;
Only 11 weeks till chop day if it's a boy.
Interesting to note the low hatch rates this year, after an exceptionally dry winter. This white hen normally hatches 10-15 chicks per clutch and one of the brown hens gave up on her clutch of 8 eggs, although there were a couple of decent thunderstorms in there as well.
Given that my one solitary duck is laying I might invest of borrow an incubator to hatch out some more gal pals for her, so that the boys stop rogering her every 10-15 seconds. She's starting to waddle kind of funny.
Spent a couple of hours on Saturday morning working the bees, reorganised things in the hives from all ideals to having a couple of full-depth supers in. Populated them with 50-50 ideal comb and full-depth foundation, so that I can build up a stock of full depth comb.
Also took our first harvest of honey;
Very yummy.
Spent Saturday Afternoon and most of Sunday making gothic arch chairs for the Barony, with Miss A, Mr W and Mr D. These will look very funky once painted and setup up behind High table.
Now I'm trapped in the land of day one back at work after the change-over to daylight savings, sucky sucky ball balls.
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