Why hello chicken peeps. Been a while since I've been on here. Much has happened. I have been further developing my cuckoobaraucanas and i have some really nice chicks growing out right now. Am hatching some birchens out of some really nice black firls ive recently aquired very soon. Ive also...
18 cuckoo araucana babies!!!! Set 23 eggs 4 days ago. 1 dead in shell 2 still pipping one has movement but not pipped yet. So exciting! And if anyone has any experience breeding mid size crested birds...only 1 vaulted skull (comes with big crests like polish, silkies, houdans and is an indicator...
yes. the mum flies over every few months for a look but has never taken anything. pretty sure the last brood she raised is responible for the loss of a duckling 18mths ago, but apart from that nothing. til this cheeky one shows up. it did dive into the dam area but i was out back having a smoke...
Look who was buzzing my duck dam this morning...the only bird in this country almost as large as a wedgie...its a juvenile white bellied sea eagle and given the size of it id say female. Huge thing. I knew their nest wasnt far away. I guess my dam is the new practice hunting ground its a...
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re is plastic sheeting under this and ive dug in a drain and used specal frainage pipe. Its round with holes in it that leads out to a slope down from the chook pen. There will be no poop sitting in it as it will go down the drain and out of the pen. The floor is slightly raised around the...
There is coarse river sand in the buckets as i dont want anything in the coops to clog up the rock. Had a hen lay in the sandpit for a yr so i guess its not bad. Lol. Yes i used 2 star pickets joined by 3 timbers for a roost. :-) they must love it. I have an ara x pekin that i seperated from...
gravelled our chook pen on the weekend and dug in a drainage pipe underneath as i am sick of the recurring coughing gurgles and sneezes that come with every rain. Next to no smell and 9-10 eggs everyday since. I think the chookies approve. Best of all i only need to hose it out once a week to...
green all yr here. Pissing fown rain as we speak. Ugh. I hate the rsin. Just dug out the entire chook pen. We're gravelling it. Im over the detestable mud puddle it becmes every time it rains.... (often).
I had almost forgotten how lovely it is to watch the chookies adventuring and free rangeing. I let mine out for the first time in 3 months as the run is finally finished. They had an absolute ball. I have 2australorps 2barnevelders 3wyandottes 1rir 1isaxIG 1favarollesxaustralorp 9araucanas...