I’ve just come in for lunch with the temperature hovering around -4C outside.
There’s no wind so it’s quite pleasant, if you’re working.
The chickens aren’t too pleased as their outside water keeps freezing over and they’re too lazy to go back in to use the inside water.
The pigs are very happy, though, as they just got their last bucket of chopped marrows - we still have six stored for us and a pumpkin, but that was the last of the fodder ones. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve just come in to thaw—it was -11C at 5.45 this morning and has now “warmed” up to -8C.
The 15mm mesh on the chicken run has closed up entirely with the ice crystals, giving the effect of a very large lace doily.
The trees all have that lovely tracery of ice, but the best effect is on the fence posts and grass, which all have inch-long ice crystals growing horizontally out of them.
Still, I’m about to have scrambled eggs and bacon for breakfast and the fire is blazing merrily, so I’m quite comfortable.
Time and time again I read on smallholding and self-sufficiency forums how people feed their hens kitchen scraps and left-overs, supposedly because it’s less wasteful and “cheap”.
Are chickens mobile waste disposal units? Are domestic chickens supposed to be a cheap means of producing eggs?
If you want to get rid of non-meat food scraps, compost them. Read the rest of this entry »
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