Karri Glade Farm Stay

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Karri Glade Farm Stay Midweek NDIS & Senior discount low season Mon-Thurs
[email protected] An ideal base to walk the bibbulman track or cycle the Munda Biddi trail.

Lia & Shane - Farm blog & Chalet accommodation located in the pristine South West forests of Manjimup, by the Donnelly River, Bibbulmun Track and Munda Biddi trail. We have two bedroom self contained chalets overlooking the water, designed with your comfort in mind. Explore South West wineries and sample local truffle and produce. Or simply enjoy a relaxing spa and a glass of wine by the log fire. Bird watch from the balcony. Pet the sheep, catch a trout for the evening BBQ or enjoy a gourmet platter. For booking or for more information please visit mentioned website.

Today’s avocado 🥑 price check is brought to you by Cutie Pie (Finn’s gosling) and Manjimup Mensland and Workwear.Cutie P...
15/10/2026

Today’s avocado 🥑 price check is brought to you by Cutie Pie (Finn’s gosling) and Manjimup Mensland and Workwear.

Cutie Pie wants you to know you can pick up a 2kg bag of avocados from MensLand on GIBLETT Street for just $10 (Aprox 10 avocados). The same amount will set you back about $25 at current supermarket prices 😱

We tried to give Cutie Pie back to her family last night (yes, that’s her name according to Finn)Cutie Pie was a late ha...
14/10/2026

We tried to give Cutie Pie back to her family last night (yes, that’s her name according to Finn)

Cutie Pie was a late hatching gosling and mum abandoned nest so we took over and hatched her in the incubator. Cutie pie hatched 6 days after her first sibling, and is significantly smaller. At four days old (sibling = 10 days), we tucked her back under mum. Initially mother goose took her. She was under the goose at bedtime, quiet and warm, and we thought that was the job done.

This morning I went out to check she was still mothering her. Could not see her anywhere 😱. Twenty minutes of looking, properly worried she had not made it through the night… found her in the wood shed. I tried to give her back but daddy goose kept gently nudging her away (lucky because sometimes they peck and will kill rejected babies).

Geese will often accept a returned baby at first. It is small, it peeps, it wants to be brooded, and at dusk they are settling rather than sorting. Overnight is when they decide. A gosling that has spent days in a brooder does not smell quite right, and it does not sound exactly like the one she hatched herself.

By morning mumma goose had made the call. We found Cutie Pie elsewhere, not under mum, but alive.

So she is a house goose after all.

Finn will be happy, there were a few tears 😭 when we gave her back to her family. Mumma Goose is keeping the one she hatched.

Cutie Pie is keeping us 🐣

8 days into incubating 99 chicken eggs (and one goose 🪿) and today’s candling session has spoken.Candling is simply shin...
13/10/2026

8 days into incubating 99 chicken eggs (and one goose 🪿) and today’s candling session has spoken.

Candling is simply shining a bright light through the egg in a dark room so you can see what’s happening inside. At this stage you should see a network of blood vessels and a dark spot (the developing embryo). Clear eggs with no veins or growth are usually infertile or stopped early.

We found 14 that aren’t viable. Nothing goes to waste here, because they aren’t rotten, they get cooked up for the dogs. The rest are looking promising and back in the incubator they go.

Farmer Shane has 13 days to build a bigger brood nursery… 😉

Hass avocado drop at Manjimup Mensland and Workwear tomorrow (Wed) 9am - $10 per 2kg bag** We are no longer taking large...
13/10/2026

Hass avocado drop at Manjimup Mensland and Workwear tomorrow (Wed) 9am - $10 per 2kg bag

** We are no longer taking large orders or delivering to other areas as there’s only avocados dotted around the orchard 😅. Large orders and deliveries will resume late November/Early December.

Nothing says suspected ADHD quite like half unpacking the dishwasher… then suddenly remembering you have a gosling that ...
13/10/2026

Nothing says suspected ADHD quite like half unpacking the dishwasher… then suddenly remembering you have a gosling that needs love and attention.

The plates can wait. The gosling cannot.

This little goosey has splayed legs, so she’s in some little braces for a while

Goose hatching experts, help. Bruce has clocked off.Bruce is the mum. We thought she was a he. The name stuck, and hones...
07/10/2026

Goose hatching experts, help. Bruce has clocked off.
Bruce is the mum. We thought she was a he. The name stuck, and honestly she wears it better than most blokes.

Bruce hatched one gosling on Monday. From what I can find, a goose will often leave the late eggs around 48 hours so she can eat and get the hatched baby to water. That may be this.

Bruce sat for about two and a half days after that first hatch. We checked a few times a day. Today, around 12–1 pm, she left. We gave her an hour. No sign of her. She was off with the gander and the new baby, job apparently done. First family vacation 🛬

We candled the rest. Ten were rotten. Two were alive and nearly cold 🥶. Both moving, both making sounds when held against your eart, beak visible in the air cell. No hole in the shell. The mark you can see is dirt, not a pip. We moved those two into the incubator.

Small problem. There is already a fresh batch in there, set Monday, about two and a half days old. Geese want hatch humidity 85%. New eggs want about 55%. We have split it at 70% for less than 24 hours, on the basis one night will not bother the chicken eggs.

What I do not know is how long these two have been breathing the air cell. We only saw the beak at 1 pm. Bruce buggered off Aprox just before 12pm

Tonight they are still wobbling (9pm), small wobbles , not proper peeping.

When would you help?

The Donnelly starts in jarrah and marri country east of Yornup, cuts through the karri, and finishes in the Southern Oce...
06/10/2026

The Donnelly starts in jarrah and marri country east of Yornup, cuts through the karri, and finishes in the Southern Ocean. It is one of the few rivers in the state that still holds all of the region’s native freshwater fish.

The valley is old granite, worn down and deeply weathered. Winter rain did the rest. Year after year it cut a channel through the plateau, and the high rainfall is why the karri could take hold along it. The forest and the river grew up together.

Governor Stirling named it in the 1830s after Admiral Sir Ross Donnelly, a friend of his wife’s family. Lieutenant William Preston was the first European to sight it, in 1831. In 1866 the poet Adam Lindsay Gordon and his partner took up a small block on the eastern bank, opposite where One Tree Bridge is now.

Until 1904 the only crossing nearby was a rocky ford. Local axemen Herbert and Walter Giblett then felled a single karri so it dropped clean across the river, about 25 metres bank to bank, for the graphite workings.

Downstream, the old mill town ran from the Wheatleys’ early mill to the Bunnings steam mill, which opened in 1951 and closed in 1978. The village is still there, in the trees.

These stunning photos were captured by photographer 📸 Peter Caddy

05/10/2026

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Manjimup, WA
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