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paul.j.fenwick

Freedom Loving Scientist

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This site contains various pieces of writing across my various interests, and spanning several years. You can fork this site on github if you wish.

Chooks

Chooks

The chooks eat rhubarb leaves like they're the best thing they've ever tasted. Luckily they can't get to them in quantities that could cause them harm. Silly chooks.

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Diaster

Diaster
The chickens got into the tomato patch and flattened our romana tomato plant and some of the chillis. Our only consolation is that they probably got a good number of slugs and snails that were hanging around in there.

Shadow (our rabbit) seems to be getting more and more fond of the layers pellets, hanging around during the chook's feeding time and bullying the younger chooks away from the feeder. He snubbed his own high-fibre rabbit pellets, although Boor'yall (Brenda's white silkie) gobbled them with relish.

Just as long as they keep eating the grass I'll be happy.

Perl
Finishing up the materials for two talks I'll be giving at Melbourne Perl Mongers this weekend. It'll be good to have the group up and running again.

Business
Busy busy busy. My there are a lot of things that are tax deductable. Busy busy busy.

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Chooks

Chooks
Have chooks. Three brown cross-breeds and one white silkie, adopted from Brenda. They rock, although one of the cross-breeds has been jumping fences despite wing-clipping. More later when I have time. Oh yeah, Shadow (our rabbit) loves the chooks.
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Chickens

Chickens
The coop is finished. It looks fantastic, and contains all sorts of things a chook coop needs like nesting boxes, doors, walls, and even a roof. The pen goes up today (real easy, just string up some chook wire), and most of our flock will arrive tomorrow.

We're also adopting Brenda's (from my old workplace) chicken, a beautiful silkie hen. With any luck she'll be arriving tonight, so she has an extra chance to get used to her new surroundings. I'm very excited.

Shadow (our rabbit) helped a lot in making the coop, including the digging of the stump holes, and inspecting our materials and tools. We discovered that he hates small step-ladders (triple-stomp in badness), but he LOVES tall step-ladders (making a point of sitting under them to eat grass). Go figure.

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