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Hi there, Thanks so much for the replies and ideas. We are just about finished building the coop and about to choose some chooks. The kids seem very excited and I love the idea of chicken wranglers at recess. We are just beginning with this sort of sustainabiliy aspect to the school and are...

Hi everyone, In an effort to educate kids on food and where it comes from, and following a successful kitchen/garden program in our childrens school, we are donating our old cubby/Wendy house and converting an old shelter shed into a coop for approx 15 chooks. We are in suburban Melbourne...

Hi there, I have no practical advice - excepting to say that we are in the same boat with our Australorp bantam - not only is she sitting in an empty nesting box, she is scaring away the other girls so that they have resorted to laying on the coop floor. I look forward to members advice on...

Hi everyone, I am hoping someone may have some advice... We have four 16 week (or so) Black Australorps and noticed today that Coppertop has one eye closed and it looks scabby/dried blood but the other seems fine. Was also noticing that she is a little listless and trying to talk at which...

Hey guys, Living in Bentleigh, Melbourne - 4 Austrolorp chicks and 3 Isa browns, we live in the middle of the suburbs and our neighbours did not even know we had chickens!!! Love it!

Love the pics - we have three black and one blue chicks - 6 weeks old and am really looking forward to seeing them all grown up - we wanted to choose a "local" breed

Thank you everyone for your help - we whizzed up some of the older girls pellets and grains and they were very happy - off to the feed store to get crumble now - my babies thank you

Hi everyone, We have 4 X five week old Autrolorp chicks and will have to wait 12 hours before we can get more chick crumble (last of crumble spilt and unrecoverable) - is there an alternative? We have 2 year old Isa Browns that are on a mixture of pellets and an oganic grain mix, can we...

I came across this in the newspaper this morning: "If you want to know how hot it got during the bushfires, just ask Anne's chooks. There are five of them and they live in a chicken coop about 20m from the family home in Buxton (one of the areas that got burnt out in the Australian bushfires)...

Three from five - pretty good from the temperatures we have been having (115F yesterday in Melbourne, Australia)

Refrigerated eggs - should have thought of that - Forgot to mention that she is still laying happily but will give her a go free ranging today as the weather has improved to bearable. Any ideas on reintroduction to the flock? - she has been sepperated for an extended period of time as she...

I have a Isa Brown hen that is currently separated from her four friends as she has been unwell and consequently badly pecked. Over the past few days I have noticed a lot of small fluffy feathers in her coop/run (20-30) and really don't know why she would be doing that to herself. There is no...