User:Tilbaart

11/07/2020

Hi, this is new for this fan of lifelong learning. I am in my 70s, happily single but not at all misogynistic, living on a farm with family, around seven of us. We all contribute to the running of the farm and the household, sharing daily chores and household stuff. The three women living here are far too busy to be bothered looking after the wreckage three grandsons, the farmer bloke and me, grandpa, leave behind, so we roster cooking and keeping shared areas clean, but the rest is up to oneself. Me, I am the chook wrangler and fox controller. We have around 10 layers, one of the 11 was looking a bit ill this morning. So, as she is over five years old and we are looking at cold weather and around 100 mm of rain over three or four days it is unlikely she will be with us for much longer. In the orchard, mostly citrus and a beehive and the moveable electric chook fence, we run 30 meat chickens starting to kill them at six weeks, finishing with the five kilo ones at eight or nine weeks. This is done twice a year so we get one roasted chicken a week. Milking the Jerseys is done by others and the kelpie 'helps', there are around 500 cows, lazy bulls and calves on this farm. We have been a bit dry and January's fires didn't burn all the surrounding forests. RFS's volunteers are concerned that the un-burnt areas are at risk of pre-spring breakouts of bush fire. La Nina promises a wet spring so it may be all good, if they can keep things under control until then.