Guest house

Here some pictures of the one room guest house. Off grid, meaning no electricity or water inside. 

Around the corner, indoor bucket compost toilet. With water to wash your hands taken out of the lake.

Outside pallet kitchen with gas. Big table with chairs to eat outside in fresh air. Sometimes - if allowed by the fire department - possible to cook outside on the bonfire.

Double bed with 2 separate individually adaptable bed buns. Natural rubber mattrasses. Down blankets. Cotton sheets. Synthetic blanket available for allergic.

Showering means swimming the old fashioned Norwegian cabin way in the lake. It is also possible to hang 20 liter of water in a tree to warm by sunshine and wash your hair there.

Use of solar lights, to charge outside in the sun. Later solar panels will be installed.

The guest room is only a few meters from the lake.

Beautiful view to the right, where the sun goes down in the summer night.

If you want, you can put some water inside. Collect the used water and throw it around a different tree each time. Plastic and biodegradable waste to be collected separately.

                                                    The first attempt for an outside kitchen

Summer sunset around 22.30 at the end of July

Very first egg

Seven weeks ago chicken Anna was born in a breeding machine. Anna called out for company loudly. In the mean time she enjoyed sitting in my neck, often behind my left ear.

Maritha's breeding place must be too small for her,
that she chose this chair instead.
So the new one has to be a little bit wider then this chair.

                                                       

Looking to find a little 'sister' for Anna started and one week later chicken mother Maritha with her one to two day olds moved in.

Working hard

Since then the little ones have grown immensely. It won't take long and they will be as big as their mum.

'Finally done, but where are my kids?'

The small ones differentiate as follows:

3 of the 5 have white legs

2 of 5 have orange legs

3 have a red comb

2 have a yellow comb

1 to 2 tails are upwards

4 to 3 tails are downwards

So maybe the flock consists of 2 little females and 3 little males beside Maritha?

Running to eat fermented oats

Today Maritha wanted to come inside the house, making a lot of noise. What did the noise mean I wondered? After an orientating walk inside, Maritha chose to climb on an upside down kitchen chair, throwing the papers on the chair and herself, around and around.  When she finally calmed down she started making 'pressing' noises.

Danny, the brown one, is always the last one getting food

Fifteen minutes later Maritha had laid her first egg here on the farm, brown in color and 56 grams in weight.

'So great, the first egg'