Good Evening all,
Another day rolls past on the Tasman Peninsula. The day started with a phone call from the medical centre on my phone to tell Susan to come and receive the test results from the biopsy on the sore on the bridge of her nose. It's a BCC so she will be having it nipped out on Friday in Hobart with a prediction of 4 stitches.
Back on the farm the baby chicks are running around a bit now with mum. They slept overnight in the shipping container and after liberation settled down for the night next to the chicken shed. I piled up some hay next to them put an screen door over their heads and topped that with cardboard just to give them a bit of shelter. Fingers crossed they are ok in the morning. We don't have many predators as such down here. Foxes are rare to non existent so I guess it would be cats, quolls though i doubt they would be close to civilisation, kookaburras and maybe eagles. The biggest threat is probably the goats who blunder around destroying everything their path. They are on short tethers tonight to keep them from trouble. I was untangling their cable to bring them in this afternoon and if they are not pulling hard on the cable they are eating my clothes, sticking their head in my backside or jumping up and putting their feet on my shoulders.
Tomorrow Morph and Fan are off so it's just the three of us. I shall attempt to get the chickens Hilton finished. Their house has the exits blocked tonight so they can have their flight feathers clipped tomorrow. The idea being when the breeding boxes are installed we don't let them out of the yard until the afternoon by which time those that want to lay will have done so in the breeding boxes. That's the theory anyway. I am sure they will not relish the confinement to the pen after being free roaming for many weeks.
Community tea was Asian style chicken drumsticks prepared by Lynn and vegetables prepared by Susan. Another nice tea.
Finally it would be remiss of me not to note the final landing of the space shuttle. 30 years of technological innovation and bravery. When you consider the launch velocity is around 8km a second and the gravitational escape around 11km/s it's all fairly amazing stuff. Although not quite as amazing as chickens hatching from eggs!
Night folks
Cheers Simon
Baby chicks!
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