Best Twenty Eight Dollars I ever spent....

Earlier this year I had the good fortune to buy four Brown Chooks from a free- range farm in the hills of Willunga. They were 18 months old and apparently not good enough to be commercially viable in the egg laying department. I payed $28 for them and that is the best $28 I ever spent...

I picked them up in wine boxes and settled them into my chook run on fresh hay with a bowl of water and some pellets which are meant to give them all the nutrients they need.

The following morning , as a "thank you" they presented me with four eggs and wandered into the spacious yard where I had dropped a wheel barrow load of hay from a round bale that was still in the paddock close by.

They loved scratching around in it and it was a huge success with them and still is. The bale is nearly finished now but there is another one in the paddock which will be brought over with the tractor. They have laid a constant four eggs a day with occasionally only three.....right through the winter months. My friends love buying these happy eggs and so their feed bill is taken care of as well..

This photo on the left, shows the Tawny Frogmouth parents on the top limb with the two chicks below them. Again he was a long time sitting on the eggs, they seem to take four weeks to hatch. They stay on the nest for a week or so more and then suddenly the chicks fledge and  they are off into the wide world beyond the Ash tree where they were born.

You may have to click on the photo to see them more clearly...another successful spring..