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I visited America recently and kept talking about my chooks... Got a lot of odd looks and a couple of people asked what sort of animal a "chook" was. I'd used it on a forum a couple of weeks before we left for America (some comment about taking 30+ chooks to a poultry sale, I think) and someone...

Hi everyone! Just a quick note to check in and say I'm sorry I haven't been on recently... It's sad that that seems to be all I've posted on this thread in the last 6 months. You'd think with the school holidays I'd have been able to find more time for BYC, but it seems that that wasn't going to...

Really? Because everyone keeps saying Yr 12 is worse... or it should be, because that would make sense, wouldn't it? But maybe because Yr 11s do 5-7 subjects, and Yr 12s do 4... I don't know. I do my school largely by correspondence, so I get things done quicker than kids in a school (mostly...

Hi everyone! Remember me? I fell off the face of the earth. Well, not exactly, but I haven't been on this thread in about three months, so that amounts to much the same thing, doesn't it? Here's the short version of what's been going on in case anyone's interested: -Summative assessment tasks...

Thanks! I forgot the Leghorn bantam eggs, though, and some others I'm sure. I can't wait until the Sizzles start laying - I have no idea what their eggs are going to look like! Although I'm not allowed to buy/hatch chicks until Spring (I've said September), I've already pre-requested some...

You want to hear about my chooks? Well.. where to start?! I'll start with my father's flock. He has 6 ISA Browns (about 8 months) and 5 white Leghorns (about 2 years), all girls. The Leghorns were hand-raised, the ISAs were not, and the Leghorns are called Vegemite, Honey, Treacle, Peanut...

Oh... I haven't been on in so long... I've just read abou 40 posts to catch up, and now I've no idea about the first one I read! About snakes - I've never had problems with snakes and my chickens. We don't have pythons here, which is probably a major factor! We have brown snakes and black...

The bed tipping over sounds scary. One of my mother's friends in Moe said that all of the wine fell off the rack in the Moe pub. That was all, though... I don't think Sturt Road's anywhere near Upper Sturt. I could be wrong, though, but I've never heard of it. Maybe you're thinking of either...

I'm getting sick of 'Moe' jokes. They're just not funny (if they ever were?). My mother, despite being born in Swan Hill, spent most of her childhood years (about age of 8 until age of 15) in Moe. The jokes just don't make sense when you visit somewhere regularly and the first time you visited...

Well, a couple of weeks ago we had almost a week of constant rain here... the ground was disgusting! My shoes were disgusting! I only have one pair of actual shoes (I actually have three pairs of shoes - lace-up boots, riding shoes, and figure skates) so I spent most of the week barefoot, just...

Hi all! I haven't been on in a while. Sorry. Blame it on too much schoolwork which I'm not doing right now even though I should. Oh, and my mum went to Melbourne for the weekend, leaving me in charge. Okay, so my father was in charge like he always is but he can't cook and if he tries to get...

Hello and welcome to BYC, Phoebe! Fierlin, the location thing under her profile pic says 'Tamworth'. I admit I'm still not entirely clear on where exactly that is. Everyone's just meant to know, apparently. Fierlin and I are both from Adelaide. from Rachel.

Hi and welcome, everyone! As for the Drop Bear thing, I'm convinced they're real. We had a random koala drop down just in front of the car the other day. And about the noise? When we moved to the country two years ago, my father (who's English, and since moving to Australia has only lived in...

My chickens aren't free ranging at the moment but will be soon (starting next week or so; new fence now so they can have quite a large area without having to worry about them so much), so hopefully they'll lay throughout next winter. I do have a number of POL-ish birds at the moment though. My...

About POL hens not laying - I've noticed that a lot of time hens are sold as POL when in fact they're as young as 12 or 14 weeks - much too young to start laying! I've also heard that if they're due to start laying at the beginning of winter or during winter, they often don't start until spring...

Hi! Wow, that's so true! I had an ear infection and was completely out of commission for two days last week - I actually slept for most of two days! I can't even sleep jet-lagged, so I must have really been sick! - anyway now I have so much schoolwork to catch up on. I'm beginning to think I'm...

Hi Fierlin! Well, if no-one minds, I'll hang out on both threads. Sooo... I've had an ear infection the past few days, which isn't good. It probably wouldn't have been this bad if I'd paid attention like five days ago when I first started getting sick and actually rested - it got to yesterday...

Hi! I've been hanging out over on the "Australia - six states and that funny little island" thread and I don't think I've been on this thread before. So, it's good to meat you all... it seems to be generally a different bunch of people here. Well, I live in the Adelaide Hills. South...