Monday 9th – Thursday 12th Feb 2009 part 1

This week was spent mostly getting things organised at the house and spending time to get our heads around how things are going.  Hopefully next week we will be ready to get in and get busy again.  We managed to visit a lot of old friends and also to see all the staff and volunteers.  On Tuesday we went to visit the land at Bubale (the land we purchased before leaving and was cleared while we were away).  It actually looks really good and is ready to go.  It makes us excited about getting in and building.  Here are a couple of snaps of the land, the first one is where we will build the homes:

These two are where we are going to put the school, though they do not show the land as well as being here, I am standing in the bottom corner for these shots:

 

The chickens are doing ok, not as well as Edward had hoped, all the brailers have been sold, except for two (one which will end up on our dinner plate and the other at Edward’s place).  It seems that there is not a big enough market in Kabale to run with them at the moment, unless of course we could get a deep freezer to store them when they reach the right size.  The problem we have is that when they get to the right size we can’t seem to find a buyer and they keep eating away at the profits until someone eventually needs them.  If we had a deep freezer we could slaughter and freeze them without losing out.  We still have all our layers though and they are now starting to lay, at the moment only around 30 or 40 a day, but this number will increase in time.  Edward has been trying to brood some of the layer chicks but this is not as easy as the brailers especially when they are not nearby.

Here are our layers:

The young ones being brooded:

And the re-modelled house:

Here is a photo of the man behind it all – Pastor Edward, looking like he is trying to look busy: