New fence finished at last !

A new security fence around a  1 hectare paddock.

We have been trying to get a fence erected in one of the paddocks which houses a mobile shed with 200 Isa Browns - now at last it is finished. The fence is quite tall at 1.5 metres and with 4 inch mesh should present a secure boundary for Lill (the Maremma guarding that flock) to patrol.

Unfortunately we had to bring in the wire from the US, because there was nothing like it on the market here in Australia. We have since discovered a vaguely simiar product here, but it is not as high and has smaller mesh.

We installed a 14 foot gate to allow easy for the mobile shed if we need to move it to a new paddock.

Help building our front fence

Students and teachers from the Victorian College for the Deaf in Melbourne returned to the farm yesterday to help collect eggs and lay out timber for our post and rail fence across the front of the property.

The rails and posts have been sitting in our front padock for ages, and we just haven't got around to doing it. Now all I have to do is dig the post holes and assemble the fence.

Some of the students and a teacher sorting out the fence posts.

About to start on new front fence

We had five packs of three rail red gum fencing delivered today to replace our old front fence. I picked up a pair of timber gates last week so I'll be starting to put it up within a couple of days.

New tips are being put on my post hole digger and once that's finished I'll be ready to roll.

The old fence has been pulled out progressively over the past few weeks. The picture shows what it will look like when finished - at the moment it's just a bunch of pallets wrapped in plastic!

It should only take a couple of days to complete but I won't be able to work on it for more than three of fours hours a day (because of all those other farm chores) so it will probably be at least a week before it's done.

We had to miss out on going to the Inverloch Farmers' Market last Sunday because we didn't have enough eggs and it's going to tough finding enough eggs for Churchill Island Farmers' Market this Saturday. I understand that one of our Aussie 'celebrity chefs' Iain Hewitson will be there so I hope we can get enough eggs together.