Weekend stuff

Whitey with 3 of her bubbas, 1 is snuggled under her

Another fairly busy weekend here. Michael is asleep at the moment and it is quite overcast. Jemma is playing with some toys. We are meant to be going to the park but I don't really want to wake Michael up yet, so will wait a little.

Frizz with 5 of her bubbas, the grey ones will lay blue/green eggs if they are girls

Well, the chicks have all hatched. I guess there were about 12 eggs that didn't hatch and only the one in the incubator which drowned. None of the others have hatched. All up, Frizz has 5 babies and Whitey has 4 babies. One baby died as it got out of the nest and couldn't get back (before I moved them to the hutches).

The chicks are SO gorgeous. They main ones to hatch were the bantam chicks (these are the grey/blue coloured ones). They will lay blue/green eggs!!! Jemma is responsible for taking care of them and she is doing a very good job.

Here is a pic of my chook pens that Greg built. This one is the big chook pen - the original one that Greg built. This was an unused part on the garden and is now very productive!!!

The big pen, with the chooks

Here is a pic of the baby pen (although now the babies are big). This wasn't a very productive part of the garden either (the garden bed it was on didn't do very well) and now is!!

The baby pen, still need a paint - we will get there eventually!!!

I bought a passion fruit vine on Saturday. I want it to grow over the wire of the pen. It will serve a few purposes - shade for summer for the chooks, passionfruit for us YUM and I believe the chooks like to nibble on the leaves. What a multi purpose plant!!!!

The Diggers Heirloom tomato plant on L, passionfruit on R

Jemma wanted to grow some tomatoes, so we bought a plant. I love tomato and so do the chooks so it will do us both!!!

It has been lovely working in the garden this weekend. I hope you have a wonderful weekend too ;-)