Chooks...
Jan 4th 2011 | 11:41 am
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From: Listening to Puffing Billy
Chooks...
Does anyone else keep them?
Just an idle wondering....
Just an idle wondering....
Ground too wet to get down there to finish off the run. I told him ducks would have been a better bet 
Jan 4th 2011 | 1:07 pm
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Re: Chooks...
apparently ducks are great, they lay really reguarly and good eggs, but you ideally need a small dam.....no probs where you live then 
Jan 4th 2011 | 1:22 pm
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Re: Chooks...
Yep - I've 12 plus a cockerel, sorry rooster, another thing Aussie's look at my funny for saying!
The more than just egg providers in this house, more like extended family pets!
The more than just egg providers in this house, more like extended family pets!
Jan 4th 2011 | 1:32 pm
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Re: Chooks...
Oo, jealous, I'd love to breed my barnvelders but sadly not allowed a rooster...you must live on a property...jealous again!
Jan 4th 2011 | 4:02 pm
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Re: Chooks...
Yup we have half a dozen glossy black ones. They are the DH's pets, I cant stand them and I wish they would put a sock in it sometimes. We started out with 12 but I drew the line at roosters and the chicken sexers were pants at sexing so a few carked it spontaneously and several made it to their first crow before finding their heads detatched from their torsos and coq au vin was on the menu (for him, not me
). So if you buy them on the point of lay you stand a better chance of keeping them and working out if they are boys or girls. Ours are so pampered I reckon they produce the most expensive eggs in the southern hemisphere!
). So if you buy them on the point of lay you stand a better chance of keeping them and working out if they are boys or girls. Ours are so pampered I reckon they produce the most expensive eggs in the southern hemisphere!
Jan 5th 2011 | 3:48 pm
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Re: Chooks...
Errrr - that would be my chooks too! And yes we're on a property - 50,000 acres but having said that I'm sure my neighbours hear Cocky at 1 am in the morning! Stupid thing doesn't know when dawn is!
Jan 5th 2011 | 5:22 pm
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Re: Chooks...
I was talking to a guy at work who keeps chooks and he said that's the only reason there are rats at his place!!!
Put me off...
J x
Put me off...
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Jan 5th 2011 | 6:15 pm
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Jan 5th 2011 | 6:52 pm
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Jan 5th 2011 | 7:06 pm
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Re: Chooks...
I've got about 23 bantams at the mo. We had 13 chicks just before heading off to the UK. Had to introduce them to the main pen just before leaving. All seems to be okay. Not sure how many of the chicks are roosters yet but 2 of the adults are roosters. We keep them in a dome but within a fenced enclosure.
