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Hi Fellow chicken owners, I'm from Ingleburn, an hour SW of Sydney. I've been keeping chooks for over 2yrs starting with 6 Silkies, but following the death of 2 of them I adopted 4 assorted Bantams when their owner moved interstate. Then there was the lovely black Langshan, all alone in a cage...

chic-a-deee, some of my Silkies are now well over 2 and a half and still laying eggs, albeit very sporadically. My other girls range between 18 months and 2 yrs., also still laying. Am just about to adopt 3 ex battery hens at weekend to join the 8 girls, so new enclosed areas being...

Gosh I didn't realise they could live so long!

redfeather13 - I'm with you, letting the older gals stay on till the end of their days. I couldn't get rid of one just because she has stopped laying. I get way too attached to my girls and as most of them are poor egg layers at the best of time, they are there more for enjoyment, eating the...

Cate, thanks for sharing your pics of your lovely chicks. I said I wouldn't add to my flock following the death of my favorite girl Lavender, but when I see photos of these gorgeous little fluff balls I literally get all 'clucky' again and think, 'Ah well, another couple won't make much...

Welcome Chinese Cook. In respect of which chickens to buy, it basically depends on your own personal circumstances, for example: Do you have a small or large garden? Will they be free ranging or confined to a chicken run? Do you want them purely for their egg laying ability as many of the...

So Christie are you on a rural property as you have roosters/cockerel. My adopted Polish - Black Betty runs the show and has a tendency to crow when the pigeons invade the run! The previous owner never told me that! I was horrified and thought she had fobbed me off with a boy,it was only that...

Christie - yes I curremtly have 4 Silkies, I did have 6 initially. The 4 are White w. Grey head, one bright copper ( hence the name Julia Gillard) and 2 brown ones, I think known as partridge, but I can tell them apart as one has a much bouffier crown (Oprah Winfrey) than the other one (Miss...

Hi Qldchook Great pics, how amazing! The only predators we get here SW of Sydney are pigeons that still manage to get into the run despite netting! I still lock my girls up at night though as the Silkies are that silly they would happily sit outside all night even when the frosts come! Have...

Christie, I do so love the pics of your baby silkies. I currently have 4 assorted colour Silkies (started with 6 but have lost 2 sadly) I find them just the most beautiful gentle natured chickens, albeit lousy egg layers! I wanted to take on more Silkies, but ended up adopting 4 various bantams...

Hi there fcooper, I am just south of Sydney and most of my 9 assorted bantams started moulting a few weeks ago, consequently their egg production has dipped from a max of 7 eggs a day down to 2 every 2nd day. I am not too bothered though as my silkies in particular are renowned for crazy laying...

Sorry about the rain here in Sydney, but boy do we need it - or rather the gardens do. My Silkies are happily playing in the rain, all bedraggled! The other girls - Polish and Cochins, make sure they get in a dry spot, they can't abide getting wet.....

duckyfrom oz - No I haven't seen those 'nipple' feeders for the water. I shall have to google them as we are off again to Darwin at the end of May so perhaps by then I will have something suitable - just in case daughter does forget to top up/change water etc. This is our first holiday away...

whiteflare - we have the same problem - before we can go away I have to check with Uni dtr who is here sometimes, at partners other times and travelling out on Uni trips throughout the State, to make sure she can be here to walk the 2 dogs (hers!!) tend to the 9 chickens and water all the...

Whiteflare - Welcome - I am from Sydney and have only just recently joined the site. Where are you in Oz? Hope you enjoy the chicken banter between folks on this site. Wooklet - when you say your Barnevelder was sat on 17 eggs - are they all the eggs laid by the other girls? One of my silkies...

Well finally the last of my five Silkies has laid an egg - we were beginning to despair of her, thinking she must be sterile, as we have had her since last July when she was 3 months old. Three of my Silkies started laying at 9 months and then the 4th one started a couple of weeks ago. My last...

Thanks duckyfromoz for your warm welcome. Yes I feel blessed that I was lucky enough to answer an ad on another forum and get the girls given to me. I was actually looking at the website to buy more silkies - so I think it was meant to be, saw the ad Thursday and picked the beautiful girls up...

Hi. I am just outside of Sydney and have 9 girls in my flock - 5 silkies, and 4 Bantams made up of 3 Cochins and 1 Polish. I am fairly new to backyard chooks, I only got my first one 8 months ago. The 4 Bantams were only added to the flock today as I adopted them after their owner could no...