Our new website is here: www.lindonestate.com.au
Check out thenew website with all our info and contact details.
We will still regularly return to this site since we will use this as our gallery of pictures.
OUR NEW WEBSITE IS COMING
Hello, our new website is coming.
It is currently being developed and will be at www.lindonestate.com.au very soon.
Foxes and now eagles.............
The girls are continuing to lay strong and regularly even with three foxes roaming around and now the arial attacks each morning and evening from a pair of wedgetail eagles.
Two of the foxes were caught in our fox traps, and the neighbours dog managed to kill the other.
The wedgetails though will not be harmed, but gees they are annoying. We spent our long weekend erecting more hiding shelters for the girls who are warned of the incoming arial predators by the cockatoos and guinea fowls.
So far the eagles havent had a meal from our place - but it doesnt stop them trying !!!
The worming is complete and the breeders are still laying, so on will go the incubator....
The incubator will soon be put back on. By the time the littlees hatch, grow pass the heat lamps, they will be ready for the outside nursery as the weather warms.
The breeders are in their area away from the egg producing girls.
The incubator is off for another season
Well the last lot of hatchlings hatched and are running around the newborn crib, so off went the incubator marking the end of our breeding season until August 2011 when it will fire up again.
All the brooder boxes are full with chicks ranging from day olds to 5 weeks. The last lot will head up to the outside nursery at 8 weeks (depending on the cold it could be 12 weeks) with heat lamps on full blast to keep them warm and snug of a nightime but allowing them to run around in the winter sun during the day.
So we figure we will have about 4 weeks peace of no brooder box occupants and no eggs cooking in the incubator...............................................geez, maybe time for a holiday then :)
Our new huge enclosure is up and running, but not quite complete
Our new enclosure is up and running.
We put all the poultry in the new enclosure on Tuesday night. Three hours later all were perched and calm for the night.
The Guinea Fowl however stayed up in the old enclosure area, which will be a good thing because they can continue to guard the breeding stock who will be up there soon.
Coops are perched and nest boxed, but they are not insulated and roofed, so they catch the poultry’s water into a large tank.
And we haven’t placed around the automatic water dishes which will be swung from a solid roof shade above a sand box. This will stop the chooks from making a dust bowl in the areas around the water dishes.
The feed troughs will be the same, scattered around the 8.3 acre enclosure to ensure those areas also remained grassed.
And then there is the day perchers which should be completed this weekend. But they wont be roofed until the weekend after next – waiting on colourbond roofing material to turn up.
Some pics soon
Austra Whites are here and aint we proud of them !
The austra whites are here with the first lot starting to lay a soft creamy coloured egg. We have found them to be docile and friendly, and very willing to seek out the new and different, similar to how ISA Browns are in personality but without the nastiest that the ISAs can be.
We have a young Austra White cockeral who slipped past our sexing of day olds, and he is a very pretty little man. Grey with flecks of white running thoughout his body. He is the shape of a leghorn with the beautiful long tail feathers.
When he stands still long enough, I will post a picture of him.
If anyone is looking for a beautiful grey and white rooster for their girls - then he would be your man !
Austra Whites are coming
Early in Australia’s commercial industry, the principal cross for egg production was the black Australorp male over a white leghorn female. This cross produces about 8% more eggs than either parent breed, while maintaining both breeds' hardiness and the Australorp's quiet docile nature.
The Austra White is a dual purpose bird meaning the girls will lay into old age and the boys make great table birds.
Lindon Estate is about embark on a breeding program of the fantastic egg laying Austra Whites, making a wonderful inclusion to the existing flock of beautiful Australorps and the hardy white Leghorns.
Stay turned - we'll keep you up to date with our progress....
Fox baiting on both sides of us.....
is proving very sucessful.
We have had a female and 3 cubs running around causing our poultry to undergo a lifestyle change from being 99.9% freeranged (lockedup in enclosure overnights) to being locked up each week day and only coming out on weekends when we can let the dogs roam the property, plus we are out and about too.
And to add to the frustration of it all.........we couldnt get any of them into one of our fox traps strategically placed with dripping chuck steak.
The ducks had to be encouraged back to the dam and the poor chooklets - well, we tried to move them out into the big wide yonder of the property by spreading scratch mix everywhere, but they ate and retreated back to the enclosure.
Even the guinea fowl wouldnt venture further than a few feet from the enclosure gate.
Well the female has taken the bait.............so to speak, now we hope all the cubs have been 'fed' as well.
Vegie Garden
Yes, this was a project that should have been completed by now, but sadly the sleepers and sand are here, but thats it. Nothing has been put together for the winter crop as yet.
In our defence, the little temporary table grape section has been dismantled ready for moving further down the paddock away from the hot summer winds which howl down a small valley area.
Should be tackling this next week, for sure *S*
POSTED: 29 April
Bogged
Hubby just had to go a little further with building the wall for the creek. It took the tractor and a whole lot of effort to get the bobcat out.
It literally sunk into the ground due to the large amount of water just under the surface.
Our Roaming Free Poultry
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