Sara posted a comment asking about the hawk bird scarer. It scared off the smaller birds, but wasn't so effective with the parrots, which were the main things eating our fruit, so we ended up netting most of the trees. It did make some difference, because we didn't have so many problems with birds getting caught inside the nets as in previous years. The other factor against ithe hawk is that you can't put the hawk near the chooks, because it scares them. We could only use it because our orchard is some way from the mandalas.
Our chook breeding system has started early this year, with two chicks hatched over the weekend by our Orpington, who is the best mother among our chooks.
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