Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[Fancychooklady]

Morning everyone! New Aussie (Ipswich, QLD) chook lover here!

We are beginning suburban homesteading and have 6 chicks (3 Pekin bantams and 3 Rhode Island reds)

Hello and

 

[K Spot]

@K Spot how is your little Hen today? Hope she makes it!

She's doing ok thank you @appps . She's eating, drinking, pooping and even egg laying. I'm hitting her with the terramycin 3 times a day and thinking of flushing some of her wounds out again this afternoon. I did this to the culprit of her injuries when he himself was bitten by the dog next door to get all the nasty tissue out and keep it clean.
She's being very spoilt getting treats of sardines, porridge, scrambled egg

@racheous . Glad to have you here

 

[Sidhe13]

@apppsthey won't be allowed to free range the whole yard because, yes, the fox was a daytime visitor...on the one rare occasion i leave the house!

 

[Steampunked]

Ivan the Terrible, my partridge silkie, now only likes to roost in the same tree that the young Powerful Owls live in. So every night, if he's been out of the run, I have to go out and pick him down out of the branches and put him in his safe house.

I remember that when I started this, I was told 'Silkies don't fly and prefer to roost on the ground'...! Ivan has no problems flying a short distance, whatsoever, and has completely osprey-plumaged wings, so maybe he's just amazingly determined...

 

[AussieChics]

At least you know where they are laying. Put a layer of grass clippings in there and make it nice and homely.

its full of straw when cleaning out their nest. Guess thats why they love it

 

[appps]

@apppsthey won't be allowed to free range the whole yard because, yes, the fox was a daytime visitor...on the one rare occasion i leave the house!

Well crap hey. I thought they were more a dawn and dusk predator. How do you know it was a fox specifically? I ask as the though of daytime fox visits is rather worrisome.

 

[appps]

So my chookies are finally laying more than two eggs a day and I find myself with a glut of eggs.

Thinking quiche or frittata might be a good starting point to use up the extras. Anyone got any quick and easy egg recipe ideas?

 

[Sidhe13]

It worries me too!

No other predator kills everything and leave bits behind. There were missing heads and only 2 missing whole chooks out of the 6...so 4 dead bodies. I did a biiiig read up and asked locals and the general consensus is fox.

I was willing to believe that it may be a dog because it was a daytime attack but the other pieces didn't fit that puzzle...the only thing that DIDN'T point to a fox was that it was daytime...but if she had been stalking around for a while she would know what time the chooks are let out of the enclosure.

 

[AussieChics]

So my chookies are finally laying more than two eggs a day and I find myself with a glut of eggs.

Thinking quiche or frittata might be a good starting point to use up the extras. Anyone got any quick and easy egg recipe ideas?

made an awesome bacon baby spinach and parmesan cheese quiche on the weekend. It was superb!

 

[Sidhe13]

made an awesome bacon baby spinach and parmesan cheese quiche on the weekend. It was superb!

Loooove quiches!