In the Garden - Dungog Part I

In the Garden - Dungog Part I

24 Sept 2010

I've often written about my brother Farmer Andrew and his chickens. I'm not 100% sure but I think the current crop of chickens includes Rhode Island Reds, Plymouth Rocks and Black Australorps.

On Sunday morning I went down to the Chicken Hilton to say 'hello' to the ladies. I disturbed one of the Reds in the midst of egg production and she didn't take the intrusion kindly. As you can see, she shot me quite a look but still produced an egg for my breakfast.

Spring has just about sprung and the vegie patch was filled with goodies.

It was a bit too early for many of the flowers though. I found this gerbera at the end of it's season but still liked it's shape sufficiently to take a photograph.



I'll leave you with a final photograph from the garden.

It's been another busy week so I'm glad the weekend has arrived. Have a great weekend and I'll be back next week with some more goodies for you,

Jillian

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Maybelline - The ISA Brown, an update

Maybelline - The ISA Brown, an update

5 May 2009

Maybelline, the ISA Brown has been by far my most popular post to date. I thought you might like an update on her condition.



Farmer Andrew kindly took a photo of Maybelline and you can see that she has fully recovered from her moult and is refeathered or should that be replumed? She has taken her place back up the pecking order amongst the girls, so some kind of order has been restored to the henhouse. They now pick on one of the other hapless birds!

Jillian

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Maybelline, the ISA Brown

Maybelline, the ISA Brown

22 Mar 2009

I'm a bit tired after the long drive to Dungog and back so this will be a short post. I spent the weekend in Dungog visiting my brother. Last year he won the inaugural Dungog Film Festival Trivia Night. I was invited along to boost the numbers and hopefully to ensure another win. It was a late night but we were victorious. I'm not sure how much help I was except for my embarrassingly phenomenal knowledge of popular culture. All those trashy waiting room magazines filled with gossip, half truths and reports from a "close source" finally came in handy.



Since my last visit to Dungog my brother has built a chicken run complete with the Chicken Hilton.


He is the now the proud owner of 5 Isa Browns who have managed to lay 9 eggs in their first week.

They're quite endearing things and I've named them all - Noelene. Doreen. Eileen. Jolene and Maybelline. Maybelline is my favourite. She is suffering from a terrible case of moult so is not the prettiest of birds but she can lay eggs and that's all the matters. Breakfast this morning was scrambled eggs on toast, fresh from the girls, with mushrooms .

I'll post more photos of Dungog and a nectarine cake I made using eggs from the girls,

Jillian

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