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Bad News


Skipper – (our Rhodesian Ridgeback) killed the last reamaining chick. It got out of the chicken run and Skipper wanted too play with it. But we have learned a lot about rearing chicks from this excercise.

Lesson no 1 – prompt hen into broodiness by filling the nest with pre-collected eggs.
lesson no 2 – keep the chicks with their mother in a cat and rooster proof cage until the chicks are big enough to defend themselves.
lesson no 3. make sure the chicken run is fenced such that the chicks cannot get out (once they are out of the cat and rooster proof cage)
We continue.

We will see the calves again tomorrow.

We will drive down to Tsitiskama tomorrow. Nguni has been in PE this week to bury his brother and we will take him back.

We are feeding the calves with “calf grow” pellets still. We are a little nervous…like having our first child. We are not sure what to do, so we are probably doing too much! I want to get them onto eating grass only – as soon as possible, but am afraid that they are still used to the pellets that they were put onto by Gerhard.