Posts by Rachel96

Halò! Tha! Tha 'n (beagan) Gàidhlig agam. 'S mise Raghnaid NicGaraidh agus tha mi à Astràlia-an-Deas, ach tha mo athair à Alba agus tha an muinntir aig mo mhaithair à Eirinn. 'Us bha an seanmhair aig mo athair à...

...when you actually know how to say, “I have a lot of chickens” in Scottish Gaelic.   For those who are curious, it’s "Tha 'n mòran cearcean agam." (Ha n more-un kyurruk-un akkum).

A lot of the whole keeping/raising chickens thing for me is that it's a family thing. My grandmother raised chickens, so my father grew up with it, and when he moved to Australia and had children of his own, he raised chickens to. (I'm...

I think it probably IS in pain - it still limps when I'm not watching, but only very slightly. There probably WAS something wrong a few days ago - but I have no idea what. Maybe it had sprained something? Nothing seemed swollen or in...

I'm not getting very many eggs at the moment - about 18 a day. Of course that's more than my family can eat, so a few months ago my mother put an add up on her Facebook page and got so many replies from her friends that I had to deny...

Hi SoftBoiled! and welcome to BYC. I'm in South Australia but my mother's from Victoria.   There are a couple of social threads for Australians you might be interested in -...

Hi everyone! Just a quick note to check in and say I'm sorry I haven't been on recently... It's sad that that seems to be all I've posted on this thread in the last 6 months. You'd think with the school holidays I'd have been able to...

Hi everyone! Just a quick note to check in and say I'm sorry I haven't been on recently... It's sad that that seems to be all I've posted on this thread in the last 6 months. You'd think with the school holidays I'd have been able to...

A few days ago, I noticed that one of my chicks, about 6 or 7 weeks old, was dragging one foot behind and not putting any weight on it. I separated from the others and put it in a bird cage by the house for a few days, and during that...

It's much easier to keep grown-up chickens cool. I usually just make sure they have lots of shade and they've always got water available, and hose them down a couple of times a day when it gets really hot. This year I've only lost one...