Dairy goes up

Progress report from the dairy. Things have started to move up a gear with the dairy building. All the doors and window frames have gone in, the electrics and some of the plumbing has been installed, and now the weatherboard is going back up. We have painted it and although it looks a bit messy (it had been sitting around for a while and got dirty), it will be cleaned off and given a second coat of paint. We kept the original small dairy doors at the back. Although they serve no purpose and can't be opened we thought they were a really sweet, original feature and that it's good to keep some history and show that the building was once a working dairy.



South side; back



The shower base has gone in and we got our 'Nature Loo' composting toilet in the mail a while ago and that too will go in as soon as we build some stairs and a platform for it.



Getting the cladding on has made the most dramatic difference to the space and we can really get a good feel of what the interior will look like. It is a very small space, but we have included lots big north facing windows to bring in the light and the veiw.



Ryan finished off the new chook house. We are leaving the goose house next door because we don't want to get geese until we have at least moved down to the dairy. I think Princess Rodericka is actualy Prince Roderick, so Roddy you might be for the pot.


So we put Roddy, Gladys and Paige in the new pen and left Johnny and Cantik in the chook tractor. Saddly a fox came a few nights ago and took Johnny and (my only egg layer), Cantik. Johnny had turned into a fine rooster, always looking out for his girls, in the cool way that roosters do. Finding a yummy morsel he would make a particular 'took' noise then stand back (maybe with a slight reverent bow) and allow his girls to gobble it up.

So Ryan has since enclosed the front of the chook house and made it predator proof and a little more weather proof as well.


Johnny and Cantik RIP. So long and thanks for all the eggs.


The slab for Ang and Ken's shed finally got poured today. After many weeks of 'it's too wet', 'there's not enough cracker dust' and just nothing at all, its finally done. So onward and upward with the shed, good stuff.