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Re: Life in St Arnaud
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 10:26 am
by Buster121
Murray wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 7:47 am
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
Re: Life in St Arnaud
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 6:03 am
by 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.
Re: Life in St Arnaud
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 6:09 am
by 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.
Re: Life in St Arnaud
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 6:11 am
by Murray
In the loft. 2 inch steel mesh dividers.
Re: Life in St Arnaud
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 6:12 am
by Murray
The loft.
Notice the concrete floor and 12 inch air gap all around at the bottom.
Re: Life in St Arnaud
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 6:14 am
by Murray
Look out the door and they have a good open fly
Re: Life in St Arnaud
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 6:16 am
by Murray
I saw a couple of my youngsters that I put in his loft before Christmas.
They look well, very well
Re: Life in St Arnaud
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 6:24 am
by 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.
Re: Life in St Arnaud
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 6:45 am
by Buster121
Nice photos there the birds are coming on well
Re: Life in St Arnaud
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 7:50 am
by 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?