The chickens have an established hen house, are free rage for over an acre of lush woodland, and have great feed pellets supplemented with delicious kitchen scraps. But NO EGGS!
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Someone said that the eggs are being laid, just that we are not finding them - so we have been looking very carefully around the plants and the day roosting areas. Nothing.
Also have noted how rough the chickens are on the landscape in general. The native grasses I planted to stop the erosion have taken a battering and I would estimate we have lost about a third of them to being uprooted or simply trampled.
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Planting a roll of Sir Walter Turf
Have been taking advantage of the lovely autumn rainfall and have made some repairs to the lawn where it has rubbed bare. It has been largely my fault that the grass had deteriorated so drastically, as I have been very strict on not watering over the summer.
The worst affected area is facing north west and has the extreme afternoon heat in the middle of summer. If that wasn't bad enough, I was a bit over enthusiastic with the fertiliser and there was some severe burn from the chemicals just to make sure what grass that remained was totally killed off!
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So now it is roughly the footprint of a car in size and is bare soil except for some twisted weeds. And once the soil was bare, it gets that water repellent feature where any rainfall is quickly turned into runoff and does not penetrate even further than a few millimetres.
So, it was off the the hardward store and we bought a few 1.8m rolls of Sir Walter, the soft leaf buffalo grass. I teased out the old soil and removed the weeds and rolled out the grass so we will see how it survives over the winter period and hopefully with some care will be a vigorous green swathe of grass come spring.
The worst affected area is facing north west and has the extreme afternoon heat in the middle of summer. If that wasn't bad enough, I was a bit over enthusiastic with the fertiliser and there was some severe burn from the chemicals just to make sure what grass that remained was totally killed off!
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So now it is roughly the footprint of a car in size and is bare soil except for some twisted weeds. And once the soil was bare, it gets that water repellent feature where any rainfall is quickly turned into runoff and does not penetrate even further than a few millimetres.
So, it was off the the hardward store and we bought a few 1.8m rolls of Sir Walter, the soft leaf buffalo grass. I teased out the old soil and removed the weeds and rolled out the grass so we will see how it survives over the winter period and hopefully with some care will be a vigorous green swathe of grass come spring.
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