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

[satay]

The guy running www.maransaustralia.com claims to be producing 5-6 rated eggs. His birds will set you back a pretty penny, though! $250 to $350 for a copper pair, male-female. He is primarily interested in selling to breeders.

My French Wheaten Maran I got for $35 looks way too dark to me now...not wheaten at all.

I've heard a LOT about that import, the first one lost hundreds of chicks due to a salmonella incident in quarantine, right? Whole lot destroyed.

That's correct. It could be a clay wheaten they are darker in colour.

 

[Sidhe13]

What do you do with your baby roosters?

 

[Steampunked]

Here's an article about the destruction of the first import: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-25/rare-chickens-could-be-destroyed-as-soon-as-tomorrow/4844332

An article in a poultry magazine I read stated they contracted it in Australia.

I admit that I was puzzled because I thought that backyard chickens in Australia were already a salmonella risk. Maybe someone can explain what was going on there.

 

[appps]

Here's an article about the destruction of the first import: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-25/rare-chickens-could-be-destroyed-as-soon-as-tomorrow/4844332

An article in a poultry magazine I read stated they contracted it in Australia.

I admit that I was puzzled because I thought that backyard chickens in Australia were already a salmonella risk. Maybe someone can explain what was going on there.

If you look at the date on that article then go back on this thread to around the same time the full story is explained.

 

[IamSamSam]

Yes i have done it. Put some quails eggs on to cook and the neigbour next door came over. We were chatting outside for agers and just as he went toi go he said is something burning.. I raced inside and had exploded quail eggs everywhere,. Not a pretty site.

i remember that you posted when it happened LOL

Soufflé is a Fancy word for cheesy scrambled egg

 

[IamSamSam]

What do you do with your baby roosters?

Sell / give away / raise for food

Not much else u can do unless u have acres

 

[Kooka]

Re FANCYCHOOKLADY

Luckier still I was BUSTING to get some Silver Lace, this batch gave me a Blue Lace Rooster and pullet and three Silver Lace pullets so they will be able to join my main flock soon.
I plan to post a story with pics of Hannas' Journey. Hanna is the sole survivor of the second and most catastrophic abandonment. She was hatched in a plastic storage box under a table lamp in our Lounge. She was so weak I had to feed her starter made into a soup using a syringe.

I will NEVER forget the look of horror when at 5days I added six 4 day old chicks. Clearly she thought her mother and the sole occupants of her world were hands with a strangely distant voice. This bunch making peeps just like her, and looking like nothing she had ever seen before was a shock to her system. She is still most comfortable sitting in my hand (just) as she is now six weeks old.

Its a funny story, however, there was a serious lesson there for me that I will not forget. Whilst I do not plan to purchase an incubator and or hatch more chicks, at say 15 days I would not hesitate to use a table lamp again and use blankets around the plastic storage box to regulate the temp..........at a pinch!...........as with everything, we have so lost contact with "make do" that we can't think through what folks might have done in days gone by, and just how strong Mother Natures' lee way is for survival.

 

[birdman55]

yepper I grow mine and if they are perfect eye candy for future gens then they become one of the breeders and the other one makes freezer camp....

 

[satay]

What do you do with your baby roosters?

Snake food.

 

[satay]

i remember that you posted when it happened LOL

Soufflé is a Fancy word for cheesy scrambled egg

That I did. Still embarrassed about it