And the chickens arrived too!

Yesterday we picked up the 2 chickens, it ended up being 4 chickens with one where the femininity is disputed (the middle one of these three). The race is called Barnevelder, but we didn’t really got them because of a specific race. Barnevelders lay lots of eggs an if everything goes right we should have the first eggs in oktober.

In the mean time the chickens are busy eating, scratching an pooping, fertilizing the soil and helping us get rid of the weeds and food waste.

Seba is really happy with them, he keeps looking at them and feeding them. The dog however is not at all pleased.

 

Argicultural Transport

This is a Lanz Bulldog, a well known type of tractor from before and until just after WWII, it is a 1 cylinder diesel engine with a flywheel. It could not only run on diesel but also on petrol and other cheaper and dirtier fuels.

Before the introduction of tractors like this German beast, there where lots of other transport types, also ones that where a lot more silent. Like these pulling horses, one of them has an alternative way of harvesting.

For those with less money there is another option, this dog cart. These dogs are specially bred for the purpose, this is a Bernese Mountain Dog. Dog carts are nowadays forbidden in the Netherlands, only exceptions are made for demonstration purposes.

Dogs where not only used buy farmers, De Dutch Post used dog carts for small package delivery until 1922. During the call to arms in WWI the dutch army had around 1200 pulling dogs in voluntary service. They where used for pulling Automatic gun carts, munition carts and tool carts. On the picture you see the only automatic gun of the Dutch army then, it is still in use but now pulled by a bike because of the dog law.

Not only dog where used but also goats, this particular one is very chic though.

In the end, nothing is better and muscle power, looks like a normal bike….

But I’ve never seen this before….

If anybody has more info about this bike, I’d like to hear.

Most of the pictures are taken at “oude ambachten in Einighausen Limburg”