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    Going walnutty

    Oct 11, 2017 3 minutes

    JACKIE FRENCH is the author of The Chook Book (Aird Books). Her oldest chook, Gertie, is now 17. Although Gertie’s sisters have all long since fallen off the perch, Gertie still lays extremely large brown eggs most days of the year. Get in touch with Jackie via facebook.com/jackiefrenchauthor, twitter.com/jackie_ french_ and instagram.com/jackie_ french

    Forty-something years ago, we acquired a block of land and 16 giant walnut trees. No walnuts, of course — the white cockatoos got those.

    We tried everything from scare guns to tangles of computer tapes (from the ye-olde days when computers contained tapes)

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