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    Chicken personality - do they really enjoy our company?

    I'm talking about the vigorous squawking when we arrive home, the crowding around the back door and following us intently around the back yard. Or is it all about the food??? :)
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    Serious poop problem, contemplating chicken run

    We have two adorable backyard hens, a sweet, gentle isa brown and a bold brute of a black australorp. (When I've made a few more posts I can put some pictures up.) We have allowed them to free range in our lovely little inner city backyard for six weeks now. We have a range of native and...
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    Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

    Hello all, some exciting news from us - Brown laid her first egg today! We took the kids to the pool this morning then came home to find her scratching around in the straw at the back of her coop and acting very strangely indeed. About fifteen minutes later we discovered the reason for all the...
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    Meet our girls! From Down Under

    chookn, they were great! Delivered the coop, the straw, a bag of organic chook feed and our two girls, the day after I ordered them, which happened to be two days before Christmas. Best present ever. Well, they've earnt their keep already. Devoured all of Master Three's leftover weet-bix and...
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    Meet our girls! From Down Under

    Hahaha, I don't think so. Like I say about my children: Two is enough!!
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    Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

    Hello, just posted in New Member Introductions. I am the proud new owner of an Isa Brown and Australorp through rentachook.com.au. Looking forward to learning more about chickens here. I live in the inner west of Sydney. lightningsally
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    Meet our girls! From Down Under

    (I'm not allowed to post photos yet, I will do so as soon as I can.) As of last week we are the proud new owners of two charismatic, 18-week-old girls who have turned our lives upside down (in a good way!). We have one Isa Brown and one black Australorp. I have never owned chickens before but...
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