Recent content by Rachel96

You know it's summer when you lift the lid of the incubator and the temperature rises. I've got some week-olds under a fan, not a heat lamp!

Dia dóibh as an Astráile agus ceud míle fáilte go BYC. An bhfuil Gaeilge agaibh?

Ah... I'm feeling more Irish recently because I've been going to Irish language classes. Normally I just sort of ignore the Irish heritage because we're over 150 years removed from Ireland (mother's side) and only 25 years removed from Scotland (father's side). I've got to say, though... the...

South Australia is sort of Scottish-er than Irish, but the eastern states? People from the eastern states even sound sort of Irish, with their yez/youse and everything...

Okay, basically I'm fed up with not being able to find the words in my dictionaries, so I thought I'd start a thread where people who speak other languages can put up useful chicken-related words. This really started when I was letting the chooks out this morning. You see, I talk to my pets in...

Hi! I'm not from Nova Scotia (I'm not even from Canada!) but I'm planning to visit next year. As a Gaelic-speaking Australian, I really want to see where all my (text)books come from... I feel like I know the place because I read about it so much. Good luck with finding people!

Hallo alle Leute! Vielleicht bin ich ein bissle Spät. Ich wohne in Australien aber ich spreche Englisch (natürlich!), Deutsch, Spanisch (español/castellano), und Franzözisch (français). Und Schottisch-Gälisch (Gàidhlig). Ja, ja... ich bin eine Geek. Sowieso hab' ich ein Frage: Wie heißt der...

... "I think I had a feather up my nose" is a valid excuse for sneezing. ... you've ever rocked a hen on you lap and sung, "Soft chooky, warm chooky, little ball of fluff; sleepy chooky, broody chooky, cluck, cluck, cluck," in order to induce broodiness.

... you have not one but five plastic dog kennels on the back verandah for use by broody hens, which you refer to as "the maternity ward".

The silliest one we have is "Brontzzso". Yup, that's how it's spelt. My father reckons he looks like he'd be a tanned, blonde-haired surfer dude if he were human, and is therefore deserving of a surfer-dude name (and here was me thinking they were called things like Wayne and Dave...). Our other...

... you have a table in your living room dedicated solely to the sorting of eggs. ... and another for the two 48-egg incubators. ... your mother says to you, "We need to find some more customers for these eggs... again." ... you look at the three dozen eggs you've just brought in and...

I visited America recently and kept talking about my chooks... Got a lot of odd looks and a couple of people asked what sort of animal a "chook" was. I'd used it on a forum a couple of weeks before we left for America (some comment about taking 30+ chooks to a poultry sale, I think) and someone...

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 Eirinn. Hello! Yes, I have (a little) Gaelic! I'm Rachel, and I'm in South...

...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 sure my ancestors earlier than my grandmother raised...