It’s a common misconception that goats are ravenous for absolutely anything and everything in sight – be it actual feed, your favourite rose bush, cactus, socks etc. In fact, they are quite selective. Known as ‘browsers’, they prefer to look for leaves, twigs, bushes and shrubs so if you’re after a lawn mower, get a…
Category: DIY
KaMa Klucks Chicken Dust Bath Recipe
Scrub-a-dub-dub three…chickens in the tub?!
Wooden Louvre Shutter Door Gets a Rustic Farmhouse Makeover
Yup, it’s true! We have these plain-o louvre shutter doors encasing a couple of cupboards in our little farmhouse, all equipped with the same boring wooden 80’s handle (urgh!). With the air conditioning install project now well underway (we do now have cold(ish) air coming out of vents of which roughly half are installed and…
FERMENTATION: How & Why You Should Ferment Your Chicken Feed
Fermentation is all the rage at the moment. Hipster cafés in hip little pockets of cities are sure to be filling their hip pockets selling all kinds of fermented goodness. But who would’ve thought you could keep more of your hard-earnt money in your hip pocket by putting your chicken feed through the fermentation process…
THE HUMBLE EGGSHELL: Don’t throw it away!
Did you know, there is more to the life of an eggshell than being discarded in the rubbish?