Shloop, shloop, blurp… hurgh! Squelch, squelch, plop, squelch, squelch, squelch, hurgh! SHPLOOMPH! Yes, it’s one of those days where the Lone Dungslinger spends hours extracting, carrying and hurling **** in an attempt to set a personal best in Synchronised Dung Flinging . The Dungslinger is out early, fully waterproofed against both rain and muck, fork [...]
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Tag Archives: Poultry
Welcome to the bog
24 April, 2012
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We’ve had heavy rain and numerous hail storms for a week, transforming the croft from a hillside to a bog. It’s not quite the worst we’ve had it, yet, but that’s only because we didn’t start with snow melt. The pigs are fairly happy with all the water and mud, except when it flows into [...]
Read more Keeping chickens: The Run
23 December, 2011
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To thrive and do well, chickens need access to an outdoor area where they can forage, dust bathe, exercise and indulge their natural behaviours. The chicken run fulfils those requirements, whether it’s a one-acre field, a section of orchard, half a back garden or a couple of square metres of wood and mesh attached to a [...]
Read more Keeping chickens: housing
16 December, 2011
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There are so many different approaches to housing chickens that it is difficult to decide which style to go with, which materials to go with and whether to build or buy, especially for people looking for the ‘right’ house. There are small, lightweight houses for the urban chicken keeper, made of plastic, lightweight plywood or [...]
Read more Keeping chickens: the site
9 December, 2011
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One of the advantages of keeping chickens is that they are small enough to make it straightforward to replicate the conditions in which their ancestors originally evolved. The Red Jungle Fowl, from which the chicken descends, tends to be found in mixed forests and forest-grassland margins. These are habitats where they have access to taller [...]
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