Recent content by Cammo77

What I mean by social media trend is seeing a tonne of carbon copy posts of people holding there red and white TSC boxes and then also memes being made about going there to get chicks. It pretty much flooded my feed so that's why I was confused thinking TSC had a monopoly on chicks. I hate big...

So TS would have contracts with hatcheries all over the country and just ship these chicks to whatever store orders them? The two hatcheries you've found local do they breed a few different breeds or just one or two?

Thank you that's a great insight into how it works over there. I'm guessing the breeds available would be ten fold to what it was when you were a kid?

We bought 6 ex cage hens that 18mths old and have lost 3 due to reproduction issues. That's why we gone with heritage breeds now. I think I'll be buying week olds from a hatchery now as they're all vaccinated.

This is all definitely all making sense now. Great point about the disease/parasite potential too. I have a hatchery I was going to get our next batch from and they vaccinate for everything plus they offer a take back for roosters. They're a small family run business that are fairly local to me.

So it's sounding more like it's a social media trend more then anything that I'm seeing.

Thank you. Sounds like some pretty good laws there in regards to chicks. We have a mix of everything here. Backyard breeders, show breeders, markets and small hatcheries. You can also order hybrid commercial egg layers as well but usually as pullets. I wish I could import some Barnevelders from...

Great point 👍

So would be more of a social media trend that everyone seems to post themselves buying from there? And there definitely is other smaller local places and people just aren't aware?

We wouldn't have the same amount of breeds as our animal import laws are extremely strict and being a big island it's hard to smuggle animals into the country, which I am happy about though as we're still dealing with morons importing destructive non-native species 200yrs ago. We do have the...

Sounds like the perfect opportunity for big corporations to exploit a market. People sell POL here for between $50+ (this morning I saw leghorn, wyandotte. and Barnie POL going for nearly $90), sexed chicks $40 for heritage breeds and a bag of feed is roughly $25. Which is roughly $30/15US just...

That's an excellent point about the dogs! I hate my dogs barking for no reason but many people don't care.

That's a good amount on a block that size. I get the good neighbour bit. We have a cockeral that hasn't started crowing yet but I'm worried he'll annoy the neighbours. I'm up at 4am and can only ever hear 1 rooster crowing from all the houses around. I personally would rather hear a rooster at...

Thank you for your reply. What you say definitely makes sense. I guess there'd be good money in breeding if you're allowed to on your property then? Just for context I live on a 1acre block in a semi rural area. I am allowed by the local council (government) to have up to 10 chickens but to...

Hi everyone, I have a question for all you lovely North American people and this is in no way a judgement on how your system works over there. First of all I am Aussie and still fairly new to chickens. I have joined this forum and also follow a lot of chicken social media pages. I have seen a...