Chickens, Fruit Cages And More

 Two little Easter chicks have hatched out, one nice and fluffy the other is that scrawny mess on the right, it will fluff up soon enough, the third fertile egg was dead in shell, there was a crack in the shell running lengthwise probably a weak shell and at some point it has cracked and the chick died.

Mrs Broody is still sitting tight on her clutch of 10 eggs we hope to have more chicks from her.

The two OAP's Enid and Doris are still happy doing pest control in the garden 

Here are the eggs they laid either side of a normal hen egg, very pointy and a lot smaller, 

for there size they are mostly yolk.

Not bad for a pair of 8 year old chooks.

The week-end has been spent working on the fruit cage 

 Marking out the base

 putting together the frame

 The frame all constructed ready for netting

 Roof netting on

Two sides all netted, the other two sides will get done next week end, a lot bigger than I thought it would be.

Once complete Flash the tortoise will come out of hibernation and move into the fruit cage this will be his temporary home until we construct a proper area for him.

Over the week-end I got the greenhouse empty

It will be going to a new home at the week end.

Everything has been moved into the Poly Tunnel

 All the citrus trees are sitting on the path

And the staging has been set up as a temporary work area 

Once the new poly tunnel is up it will all be moved there in time for the rest of this tunnel to be planted up.

This small poly tunnel frame ( I have three of them)

has been put to use, I have netted both sides 

One side will have beans growing up from the raised bed on that side

And peas from the other side, I like to grow tall peas.

The four raised beds in the background is were the new poly tunnel is going.

I cooked a hogget ( hogget is 18 month old lamb) shoulder yesterday 

 It was studded with garlic thyme and rosemary out of the garden

Slow roasted in the oven it was falling off the bone, I much prefer hogget to lamb.

 Today I used up a jar of the canned chicken I did 3 years ago

 The meat is already cooked and was very moist

It went into a curry for dinner, a nice quick easy meal.

BT came out today we were gobsmacked, bank holiday and the engineer came all the way from Swansea, a temporary fix has been done to the broadband, it keeps dropping off.

I will be glad when can can drop BT off. Perhaps it will be sorted by BT soon who knows they are a law unto themselves. 

Storm Katie didn't seem to hit us so we had no damage, I woke up just after midnight and could hear the rain and a bit of wind,

There was a bit of snow out there this morning.

I turned into a lovely day weather wise.

Hope everyone had a good holiday week end.