Fingers crossed xxxx

So far the weekend has turned on some lovely weather. Between the shop and milking I have managed to start tidying up our orchard / chook pen at home. I planted the orchard about 6 or 7 years ago with a mixture of fruit trees and then fenced it out and built a chook house. It worked well for a while. The chooks scratched around the trees keeping down the weeds and eating all of the insects and bugs. That was until the foxes moved in and took all of my chooks. I then put a door on the chook house, bought more chooks and locked them in at night. That worked well (for a while) until the foxes came back and dug into the chook house at night. We then concreted the floor, restocked but the foxes returned during the day and took all of them. After that (and a lot of tears) I just gave up. I love chooks but I just couldn’t go thru it all again. But the time has come to try again. I have decided to clean it up and extended the fence higher so they…the foxes that is…. can’t climb over the top. Fingers crossed it works!!!

I have finished more of my blocks for Lenora's  'Send a Christmas Wish’ Quilt. Seven finished - only 2 more to go and then I can piece it together….yeah!

I am really happy with the fabrics and how it is looking – although I have deviated from instructions slightly (sorry Lenora).

Roll on daylight saving - I love it.

Linda   :)

Comments

[Narelle]

Hi Linda, try laying a small roll of chook wire along the bottom of the fence line(into the grass)this stops the foxes from digging under. It only needs to be about 30cm or so. There is nothing worse than a fox attack. Good luck

Narelle

[Linda]

Thanks for that advice Narelle. We have placed old corrugated iron into the ground which has worked really well in stopping them from digging under the fence. But alas they climb over the fence. Many people don't realise that foxes are good climbers and often live in cyprus trees etc. Linda :)