Author: Tim Hewitt-Coleman

The problem of course with growing 165 chickens in the backyard is that things end up looking like a dump. Family begins to rebel a little.

Loading off at the Abatoir. Certified and health inspected.

Thursday – 24 February 2011. 165 broilers loaded up and ready to go to Abatoir.

Thys from East Cape Broilers supplies my day old chicks and a lot of free advice!

The tractor at Tsitsikama Witelleibos is broken again. Sicelo has not been able to plough. The tractor is broken more often than it is fixed. I am sure that a lot more ploughing would happen if their were no tractor for people to wait around for! With no tractor people would harness their donkeys or their oxen and just get on with it. ” But we are not Peasant farmers” says the drunk and slurring Boyana. ” we are commercial farmers. How can we be seen to plough with oxen when we are commercial farmers?”

We injected 7 2010 calves with 7 ml Hitet today.

I have not been so keen on Hlubi's pork project. Pigs require a lot of care. (a lot more than cattle). I am happy though that they are able to range and snort and do what pigs do.

Of the second herd bought in August 2010. We have lost 2. T9 and T11. Today I see 2 cows have white eye. T10 has grafted himself onto a lactating cow.

Broilers at 2 and a half weeks. They really like the pen. They flap their wings they do little short sprints as if testing their legs. They scratch the grass and peck for bugs and stuff.