I was cutting up the birds food for tomorrow morning to save myself time when the kids are asleep and the thought occured to me that rarely do I eat as well as my birds do

 

Edited November 28, 200816 yr by Elly

Yep, certainly do, everytime I'm cutting up the vegies for the birds I think how healthy I would be if I just ate half the vegies they do. The sad thing is I always seem to feel to tired at the end of the day when making dinner to bother with the fresh vegies that I cut up for the birds in the morning when I'm still fresh, I me and my family end up with the same old frozen peas and corn. What a bad Mother I am, feeding my birds better than my children. :tut_tut:

That's for sure ...........our birds vegies cost more than ours do !!

I'm hoping to give myself no choice next year. When we finally get our own place the first thing that will be going in is a humungous kitchen garden, a mini orchard plus the chooks for meat and eggs which I hope will eventually supply 90% of our fresh food, the I won't even be buying the frozen ones

I have just begun a herb garden, and tomato plants in pots outside my birdroom so I can put extras in their softfood.

I would love to have chooks again...had them all the years I lived in Tassie. But no room here for chooks.

Missing your fresh eggs KAZ?

 

My birds eat much better than me. My Mother in Law was tempted to eat their food the other day when she found out what they got to eat!

Edited November 28, 200816 yr by JimmyBanks

Missing your fresh eggs KAZ?

You bet !! :feedbirds: Nothing like home grown eggs

If you have space for aviaries surely you could squish a few chooks in somewhere. When we had chooks a few years ago we used to keep them down the sideway of the house, it was a couple of metres wide and almost the full length of the house block so it was plenty of space for five chooks and we got HEAPS of eggs from them. The only reason I don't have some now is becaue my hubby has banned me until we move to the new house

The soft food my darlings get daily is delicious!

 

There's no doubt in my mind that my pets live a cherished life! In fact I go to work to keep them in the life of luxury they have become accustomed to ...

I agree, that I really need to eat as healthy as Merlin, in fact I was thinking that maybe they are not all that picky maybe we are

If you have space for aviaries surely you could squish a few chooks in somewhere. When we had chooks a few years ago we used to keep them down the sideway of the house, it was a couple of metres wide and almost the full length of the house block so it was plenty of space for five chooks and we got HEAPS of eggs from them. The only reason I don't have some now is becaue my hubby has banned me until we move to the new house

Yeah, but the dogs ( who are excellent mousers and ratters ) would think the chooks were for eating too

I often tell Ken I will put bantams in his aviary

Edited November 28, 200816 yr by KAZ

Yeah we had to fence off the sideway as we had a lab X boxer who used to 'steal' the chooks if he managed to get in. He never hurt any but he did used to carry them and pop them in his kennel and also bury them up to their necks If we went out and realised the chooks were missing we knew we would have to go and dig a couple up and dust them off

Yeah we had to fence off the sideway as we had a lab X boxer who used to 'steal' the chooks if he managed to get in. He never hurt any but he did used to carry them and pop them in his kennel and also bury them up to their necks If we went out and realised the chooks were missing we knew we would have to go and dig a couple up and dust them off

 

That's hysterical!

 

I don't think Kaz's dogs would be so kind though!

Yeah very strange, you would just find this little chook head sticking up out of the ground

Ha ha!! Were they still alive?

Yep He left their heads out so they could breathe

Edited November 28, 200816 yr by melbournebudgies

We have fresh eggs here Kaz, everyday we get 3 eggs as we have 3 chooks, beautiful dark colour yolks not those pale yellow ones from the supermarket.

Edited November 29, 200816 yr by splat

Can bantams be kept in the bottom of a large aviary with parrots, finches and canaries ?

I reckon they'd be okay, I've been thinking about sneaking a few in myself Kaz as my large aviary down the back currently only has two lorikeets in it

I was cutting up the birds food for tomorrow morning to save myself time when the kids are asleep and the thought occured to me that rarely do I eat as well as my birds do

 

yes, l noticed that too, when l feed mine

I realised I forgot to give them their grass seedheads which I accidentally left out the frnt in the rain last night I'm sure they are devestated that they have to have blueberries instead.