Australians - Where are you all????

[:D chicken]

i am in the US in Washington but AUSTRALIA IS AWESOME i dont live there tho...

 

[peepsnbunnies]

Welcome from Florida!!

Lisa

 

[AussieSharon]

Aussie living in the USA here!

 

[kezabel]

Yay 4 Aussies so far lol
Not that many of us on ere, maybe not many aussies have backyard chickens

Hi five for Aussie Sharon,Bantamence, Peepsnbunnies and

Chicken. Nice to meet you all!!!

We Have 4 Bantams, 1 Langshan hen and 1Cochin and 2 crosses.
So far we've got 5 eggs from them, but I'm sure its only one of the chickens laying them(Langshan).

If you see any other Aussies on ere tell them to head for this thread and mark their place in Oz!!!!

Have a Great Day Everyone!!!

 

[bantamenace]

lucky for you with 5 eggs! we are still waiting for any to appear

we were promised all female chicks when we bought them but now 2 crow every morning!! Now we love them too much to do anything and they have such lovely little natures, always following around the garden making their little chicken noises!! so cute

 

[kezabel]

We had the same problem bantamenace, We bought 4 chickens from the local produce store, they were about 13 weeks old and the owner said that the 4 we had picked out were all hens but after about 1 week we started to see a change in them and realised 2 were rosters. My hubby said we can't keep them because of the neighbours, so we found a lady who takes unwanted poultry and she was able to take them and she also gave us 2 bantam hens in return which I thought was great.

We also were getting attached to them all but she told me that she finds good homes for them so I was relieved. Maybe there is someone in your area that will swap with you as well.

 

[bantamenace]

That is great that you found a swap. i have someone that is happy to take them on the condition that they will be dinner

We will see how they go a little while longer. Hopefully will find a good home so we can visit! Nice to have met you

Catch up soon
Juanita (Bantamenace)

 

[:D chicken]

hey that is so cool u got eggs! my chicks r to young one of them is on my lap right now she is a very sweet buff orpington and seriously do they have better food in australia than outback stakehouse cuz thats the closest most people get to australian here! lol we should try some real food and my teacher went to australia and she said lemon ants r really good but i have never tried them is it true they taste like lemons?
love hearing from u all!

 

[bantamenace]

sorry i am not sure i have ever heard of lemon ants !!

 

[kezabel]

hmmm lemon ants

i can't say I've heard of them either, I've heard of Honey ants and fire ants green ants but not lemon ants. Honey ants taste like honey they have a really big bum lol which is full of a honey like substance.(i've put a link to a pic of a honey ant below) They must be bush tucker(food) I know that if you go on an outback tour of Australia they get you to taste all the things that the Aboriginals eat (living off the land) but in the suburbs we eat normal food, Australia has a wide variety of foods here because of all the different nationalitys of people who live here, There is greek food, italian food,chinese food japanese food ,malaysian food and indian just to name a few.

We even eat our National Emblems(not all of us) the kangaroo and the Emu. I've never tried roo meat or emu and I never plan too. You can buy Kangaroo meat at the supermarket, don't know about emu meat. I said to my hubby next thing you know we'll be eating Koala lol we eat our other wildlife lol

Bush tucker is food from off the land in the outback of australia, alot of people from overseas think we have Kangaroos jumping through the citys and suburbs but this isn't true, The kangaroos are everywhere in australia but mostly out in the farm lands and outback, I have a friend who moved over to Australia from Holland about a year ago and she still hasn't see a kangaroo. We live on the coast and there isn't many along the coast but you don't have to go far inland to find one.

http://images.google.com.au/imgres?...=96&prev=/images?q=honey+ants&hl=en&sa=X&um=1

I googled Lemon ants and they are from the Amazon Not Australia no wonder we haven't heard of them