Newbie from Down Under

[Daisy]

Hi everyone, I am excited to join this forum. I am learning about increasing my self sufficiency on a quarter acre block in rural/remote Australia. So far, my greatest achievement is attracting a bunch of fat and healthy wild rabbits in my garden 😛

My pekin duck just hatched her first lot of ducklings and it is a joy to watch them play in the pen, but it is a hot weekend, so I am spending my Australia day checking on the chicks in the shade and filling up the water tray after mumma duck tips it by trying to sit in it.

Happy to have been approved to join and looking forward to learning from the members here

 

[baymule]

I do not have any like minded mates in real life so it is a thrill for me to be here

Many of us are in the same boat. Who else would be excited over the 40+ tomatoes you just dehydrated? Who else would congratulate you on the load of used lumber full of nails that you just scored? Who would cry with you over the loss of a lamb/kid/litter of bunnies/ calf/foal/ and any other animal? Who would understand that very first egg? Who would appreciate the dirt under your fingernails, the blisters on your hands, the aching muscles and the beautiful patch of dirt that you just created to grow your garden?

YOU HAVE FRIENDS HERE!!!!

 

[wyoDreamer]

but wild rabbits are bad to have in a garden.

but are good in a pot with mushroom and onion gravy, lol.

 

[Daisy]

It makes me very happy to be a member And I have already picked up some great tips! The duck can not tip the water over any more now there is a rock in it

 

[Lazy Gardener]

Very well stated, @baymule . And, who else, but on a forum like this, would share your joy over a pile of manure?

 

[Lazy Gardener]

Welcome @Daisy . So good to have some folks from S of the equator here! We can live vicariously through your gardening efforts until we can play in the soil ourselves. I'll be one of the last ones to get to play in the soil, and I am among the most northern folks, though there are some who are north of me, if not by lattitude, then by temperature.

I'll be starting some ducks this spring (had some Mallards about 35 years ago, but that was almost a lifetime ago!). I'm also downsizing my garden and chicken flock.

 

[Daisy]

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone I think I am going to have some fun on this forum. I really am a newbie to self sufficiency and a slow learner when it comes to gardening. Haha. I do not have any like minded mates in real life so it is a thrill for me to be here

 

[baymule]

Very well stated, @baymule . And, who else, but on a forum like this, would share your joy over a pile of manure?

That is something to be happy about!

 

[YourRabbitGirl]

Welcome! Sorry about the rabbits, that must be annoying. Not that rabbits are bad (tame rabbits are adorable and sweet!), but wild rabbits are bad to have in a garden.

Welcome to the forums. Yeah.. wild rabbits are really really bad for a garden. months or years of hard work will be devastated because of wild rabbits.

 

[WildBird]

Welcome to the forums. Yeah.. wild rabbits are really really bad for a garden. months or years of hard work will be devastated because of wild rabbits.

But they're great pets!