Life in St Arnaud

[Buster121]

I've had a bugger of a day.
I dropped a youngster the other day, but I've more coming through and, well, you are going to lose the odd one.
This morning I put the youngsters out at 7.30 am. It was forecast to get warm again but not for 6 hours or so. The small ones had a fly and some trapping practice. The the 6 big ones flew the hour and came back.
But there were only 4.
There's going to be a problem here, I thought.
At 4 pm I saw a pigeon come between the trees and drop in. As he turned around I could see he's been hit.
We cleaned him up with the fancier's best friend, Dettol, he's going to be okay. But he's shell shocked and trembling and will never be any good.
Still waiting for the other one.

Shame mate hope it recovers and the other one turns up

[Murray]

We went for a bit of a drive today. I took a couple of youngsters off the Grizzle Thone X Billion Dollar Baby to my mate Kevin King at Horsham. He had a couple of blue Breeders Plate rings left and I had a pair of eggs under the B$B. Plan!
I also put a nice pair of youngsters off the inbred Heremans cock out of a daughter of B$B, since we were going.
It is different country when you get further west from here. Grain fields that go over the horizon.

[Murray]

Horsham is 107 kilomteres from St Arnaud, about the same distance as here to Bendigo in the other direction. One hour and and 20 minutes, not rushing.
Big country town, 20 thousand people, very clean and nice. Slap bang in the middle of nowhere
I took some pictures of Kingy's loft, it is a good example of an Aussie shed.

[Murray]

In the loft. 2 inch steel mesh dividers.

[Murray]

The loft.
Notice the concrete floor and 12 inch air gap all around at the bottom.

[Murray]

Look out the door and they have a good open fly

[Murray]

I saw a couple of my youngsters that I put in his loft before Christmas.
They look well, very well

[Murray]

On the way back I stopped and took picture of the stick shed at Murtoa. It's a grain store shed 300 yards long built before the second world war.
Pictures don't do it credit.
Google Murtoa stick shed.

[Buster121]

Nice photos there the birds are coming on well

[Andy]

Great photos Murray. Thanks for sharing. Everything looks so dry out there. Had that field of grain been harvested? Didn’t look much on it if not. The stubbles been left long if it has. How do they get rid of it, just plough it in or burn it?