Brian! how's it going?

[baronrenfrew]

gidday Brian! So how's your egg business and chickens?

[Brian]

Eggs are always going. Chickens produce 6 or 7 dozen a day and they are gone before 9 am. I could sell 50 or 60 dozen a day if I was allowed to have the chickens. I tell my wife that I could retire if I was allowed to have 500 laying chickens. Imagine that.

I have downsized my chickens. I have a flock of about 50 Buff Orpingtons and about 30 Delaware, few special Silkies and a Naked Neck Polish bantam hen. I am trying to do a bubble gum silkie and see if I can get it to breed true. I have 4 pink skinned ones already.

I only have a few geese, a couple of Muscovy and some pigeons. That's about it. To busy with other things to have much more.

How's life at your end of the province?

[baronrenfrew]

Not good this year. This year ; no raising chickens and planting a garden! Coccidiosis was a problem, all the young birds were free ranged but skinny and very slow to mature. No other signs of problems so I didn't notice until lots of time went by. i have to rethink my bird management to avoid this problem in the future.
i was gonna put on a Hawaiian shirt and my white beard and take a pic with a golf club yesterday, but I didn't get around to it. So here's another pic.

[baronrenfrew]

Here's one with the boss.

[baronrenfrew]

I had to fix the tractor. i started it up... Fuel tank shows empty? I just filled it! Give it a once over.. glass bowl under fuel filter blew, full tank gone. Glass bowl $25 and gotta bleed the lines.. oh yay!

[baronrenfrew]

And the best part; the replacement parts I got don't fit!