Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Time to put cow in the freezer and eat while the trout get to plate size.

Speaking of trout - I am off to buy a thermometer to see what my tank temp actually is.

"COME IN NUMBER 920... YOUR TIME IS UP!!"

Is that a Lowline? or is it just the camera angle.

Yeah, shoulda phrased better....

I want the temps to come down so Gav can come around with my trout !

Ahhh the joys of livestock.....

Time for another BYAP at Monyas, happy to bring cake and salad

Is Monya supplying the smoked trout??... I'll come....

not a lowline, tis an Angus.

ATM we have a couple of Angus and 3 Wagyu for something different. The Wagyu take a while to grow, so we are holding them as lawn mowers until they are ready for the freezer. The Angus' are ready for the freezer when we finish the last one Man I love having our own meat. At the moment in the freezer we have about 100 kg's of home grown fish, half a cow, a lamb, and left over bits of goat. Paying an average of 1.20 per kg for lamb is pretty cool.

That sounds like the good life monya
do you grow chickens for meat as well, I'm thinking about it .

How are your olive trees Stu?

I've harvested my one little tree, reckon I might have 5 litres or so, brining them ATM..

Faye, we have about 20 homegrown chooks in the freezer too. Normally we would process these ourselves, but this time I took them to a guy who did the lot, including bagging and chilling for $2.50 a bird. While he was doing it I went to the local town and had a chunky steak pie and a honey log for lunch !!

Joel, the goats are currently pruning the olive trees for me. I am pulling about 600 of the 800 trees out after harvest this year and then concentrating on making 200 trees really productive. Am going to fence them and run the chooks and geese in there for grass control and fertiliser. I must take pics of my new chook yard that took us nearly 2 years to build. It is about 400 - 500 square metres, and is fox proof and netted for birds. Currently housing 4 apple trees, cherries, plums, apricots, peaches, nectarines and grape vines plus my dirt garden. Has 7 seperate yards in the making (not quite finished ) so I can rotate the crops and chooks.

wow Stu!

I can't imagine what it must be like to try and manage that many trees, especially not when you are doing so many other things at the same time.. good work......

Monya, do you have a thread on your chicken/orchard combo on the backyard farming board? I'd love to see the details...

Olive wood is very nice to grill food over..gets used a lot in Croatia..
Grilled fish over coals = delicious

That makes me miss our first horse...

My Dad is legally blind and therefore cannot drive... in order to keep his mobility he got a horse and buggy (though right now it's 3 horses and a buggy). Our first horse named Vinny loved cows. As he trotted by the cows in our county he'd get nice and excited, and if they went running away as he trotted down the road he'd whinny at them as if to say hey come back! Unfortunately his intestines got twisted and we had to put him down... Our current buggy horse only gets excited by other horses, she broke into a trot pulling Dad and I up a hill today as we passed some horses, she had to show off for them I guess...