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Polly – The Layer of Eggs
Our White Leghorn / New Hampshire Cross chook known as Polly has finally started laying. Which has taken a month or so longer than the Rhode Island / New Hampshire crosses took to begin laying. She laid her first egg last Friday (15/Aug/08) and the 2nd one came today....
Automatic Drinker
If you are interested in creating an automatic drinker without spending 10-20 dollars on a bought one you can make a drinker out of a plastic tub and a drink bottle you will need to drill holes in the drink bottle to let the water out to the right height and then just...
Re-coop-eration
We have been slowly refining our Chook Pen and Coop. The first thing we found is the girls didn't like how exposed the nesting boxes felt and weren't using them. So we stapled a privacy curtain to front and put small cutouts in them to allow them to enter. They now...
Double Yoker
On Tuesday (5 Aug 08) we had our first double yoked egg layed. It was 89 grams. The average egg we get at the moment from our young chooks is about 54-59 grams. It tasted really nice:
ICMP Redirects not being sent from CentOS Router
Update: This ended up being an iptables problem... The firewall rules I had were "stateful" so the icmp redirect was being killed by IPTables because it didn't identify the redirect as part of an already started connection. After changing it from stateful to...
Linux PING works but Traceroute doesn’t
Just had an issue where traceroute w.x.y.z failed however ping w.x.y.z worked fine.... The fix: traceroute -I w.x.y.z or traceroute -T w.x.y.z Where w.x.y.z is the IP address of the remote host e.g. 10.22.34.8 By default the Linux traceroute was using UDP which must...