Wet, wet, wet

These are the 26 day old chicks.

After the hottest weekend this summer with days hovering around 37degrees, it has now rained for 3 days and nights.

I think they're over it.

Chooks do like the rain and it usually puts them into a preening frenzy.

Rain means lots of insects on the move -- to the chicks' delight.

Rain usually also means wasted, wet feed -- and in summer wasted, wet and mouldy feed.







So far Dine-A-Chook has lived up to all its promises and the grain has stayed completely dry.


Readers of Green Magazine might recognise this fellow.  He's in the large photo sitting on the little girl's knee.


Just to give you can idea of how radpidly they grow and change, those photos were taken about 5 weeks ago.

And here is one of the Christmas hatch pullets -- only 9 weeks old and comfortably able to use the Dine-A-Chook.