Three weeks ago we welcomed two new residents to our farm. Two little Tamworth piglets, who ultimately will be destined for the freezer, but in the meantime we’ll give them a good life and use their natural talents to help work over some of the harder packed areas of soil in our horse paddocks. WeContinue reading “Training the Piglets to Electric Fencing”
Category Archives: Livestock
Mobile Chicken Coop
Here it is! The (almost) finished new mobile chicken coop aka chicken caravan, chicken trailer, mobile chook house. Whilst we have always had a traditional chook house where we have kept our egg laying girls for several years, we thought we would try something different for our growing flock of Light Sussex we are developingContinue reading “Mobile Chicken Coop”
Mungalli Creek Dairy and Free Range Eggs
We recently visited family in far north Queensland and while there took a trip to visit the Mungalli Creek Dairy farm at Millaa Millaa. When we aren’t getting milk from our own cows at home, we always try and buy unhomogenised full cream milk. We made the switch from low-fat/homogenised milk products a couple ofContinue reading “Mungalli Creek Dairy and Free Range Eggs”
The Hatchlings
It’s hard to feel disappointed when these cute little guys have arrived. Sure there were supposed to be 22 other brothers and sisters, but better luck (and a few careful checks on the incubation process) next time will hopefully see a much better result.
Egg Incubation Failure
One of the first steps in our plan to raise our chickens for meat was to get our first breeding stock and have a go at hatching some eggs. So we have recently purchased some Light Sussex pullets and a rooster, but being too impatient to wait until our own girls started laying, we alsoContinue reading “Egg Incubation Failure”
Brookland Ridge Farm 