Farming Life

Its been a while!

Well farming life has well and truly taken over here. It would be easier to dig for gold than to try and find the time to get in the office to write a blog!

A lot has happened over the past few years with the farm and many a lesson has been learnt and I’m sure there is still many a lesson to be learned as well!

The laying season this year seems to be short, the heat has not helped things, the incubators have been struggling and the brooder temperature is constantly having to be adjusted.

This is a problem we are having to deal with more often now, and it is important that we put some sort of cooling system in for next season as I feel its only going to get worse. The hatch rates have been good except when it has been so hot.

Luckly our duck paddocks all have lush long grass where the ducks are able to hide in the shade. The grass is also lovely and cool which helps along with the cold water bathes and drinking water.

I do worry about the ducks getting too hot and next year we are going to try and install fans into the duck houses. Some days, although there may be shade, if there is no breeze it can be stifling. Fans are definitely going to be needed moving forward.