Cuckoo style eggs

27 November 2019
eggs, frizzle, rain

Honky has been sitting on the duck egss for a few days but then sadly decided to abandon them and we hope not for a good reason.

Contrary to Honky, our frizzle hen Fluffy has been broody for several weeks and been sitting on no eggs – chicken brains are funny.

So we decided we give it a go and shoved the three duck eggs under her. She’s been a happy chicken now for two weeks and very protective on top.

Let’s see what comes out of the eggs.

July Cat Special

31 July 2023
background, box, calves, cats, content, food, grass, moonshine, mud, rain, weather

What can I say, the cats are special here. They are probably special everywhere, but I feel that we have an interesting mix of personalities. Especially Moonshine, he’s always good for entertainment.

February was more exciting than needed

1 March 2023
animals, cats, cylone, farm, fire, flooding, house, land, life, mud, muriwai, people, rain, rusty, valley, weather, winter, ziggy

February was thought to finally bring summer. What it brought instead was more rain – and storm.

It’s almost February

29 January 2023
animals, christmas, event, farm, feed, flooding, garden, grass, land, outdoor, rain, rescue, shearing, tree

The month is almost over and has been rather eventful. From rain to sunshine to torrential rain again and alpaca shearing in between.

Nature has decided it’s spring

1 September 2022
birds, cats, cheeky, dry, ducklings, ducks, eggs, farm, feed, flooding, goats, horses, mud, nature, night, rain, rescue, sun, twi, water, weather, winter

Apart from the usual winter farm activities, there has not been much exciting stuff happening. It’s been a typical winter with lots of rain, lots of mud but rather warm in comparison. It looks like nature has decided that it is spring.

Winter Solstice & Matariki

26 June 2022
background, box, christmas, content, cooking, ducks, eggs, family, farm, feed, goats, horses, la, land, nature, rats, scenery, shearing, sun, sunset, trapping, twi, weather, winter

The weather has turned from somewhat wet and warm to rather wet and cold. The horses have been rugged up just like the goats. The rodent infestation has become noticeable, so we started putting up more traps on top of the traps and bait stations we already had.

Muddy days

8 October 2021
background, baking, box, cats, content, cooking, dry, family, food, life, mud, people, rain, silver, sun, sunrise, sunset, water

It’s been a few rather wet days. Some with intermittent sunshine but not enough to dry up the ground yet. The cats use the sunny breaks to go outside but other than that they seem to be in hibernation.