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

[appps]

Can we talk worming for a sec. Figure nobody is laying anyway so this is a good time to worm them.

The feed store sold me something I can't find now last time and said to alternate wormers each spring and autumn season change. What should I be buying this time to alternate it with since I'm not sure what it is?

Know there are a lot of wormer threads here but was trying to get a brand name they sell over here to ask for.

 

[satay]

I can't extend light as I have no power to their current coop - we will have it in the new coop, but the current one is a long way from the house and there's just zero light - they're not even getting street light.  Carrying water down there is a PITA!  By linking extension cables I can get a pressure washer juuuuust far enough to clean it, but it really is within an inch or so of not reaching.

I will try looking for a slightly higher percentage protein feed at the feedstore - I can also feed tinned sardines every so often, it might help general condition.  They eat quite a lot of grubs, snails, worms, etc - we have huge witchety grubs they fight the kookaburras over.

I don't mind that much if it's a few months due to the daylight and their ages, but if it's a condition problem, I want to fix it

I don't run light to the girls either. I have way to many pens it would be come a fire hazard. Being our house is half way down our 6 acre block and the chicken pens behind that they get no extra light. (we don't have street lights out here either). I let the girls lay in their natural way. Sure I don't get eggs all year round but I'm fine with that. The feeds I use are different for each pen... The marans get laucke mills show bird breeder. The layers get layer pellets and the ducks get duck breeder, The rather fussier than now Belgians and pekins are at the moment on avi grain coffee blend as they refuse to eat anything that comes in a pellet. I change the bantams feed often other wise they refuse to eat it after a while. My quails get laucke mills game bird starter. They also get scraps and boss and cracked corn and the ducks love chillis so they get lots of them too. I used to blend my own feeds but when hubby hurt his arm last year I gave that one away as the bags were to heavy for me to unload from the ute.

 

[vehve]

Hey Satay! Last summer all of August was 25-30, but mostly we get 15-25 summers. Right now it's -2 in the night and +8 in the day, trees are just about to start with their leaves, and mu rhubarb has awaken.

 

[satay]

Hey Satay! Last summer all of August was 25-30, but mostly we get 15-25 summers. Right now it's -2 in the night and +8 in the day, trees are just about to start with their leaves, and mu rhubarb has awaken.

I love rhubarb, have tried to grow it here but I have never had any luck.. Omg that is winter temps here. I complain if it gets under 15c for the day.

 

[appps]

I love rhubarb, have tried to grow it here but I have never had any luck.. Omg that is winter temps here. I complain if it gets under 15c for the day.

Ditto!

On the rhubarb I tried growing some in a pot so it was out of reach of the chicken. It's not dead but that's about all it's done so far. Do you think they would be stupid enough to peck the leaves if I put it in the ground?

 

[smhoekzema]

Ditto!

On the rhubarb I tried growing some in a pot so it was out of reach of the chicken. It's not dead but that's about all it's done so far. Do you think they would be stupid enough to peck the leaves if I put it in the ground?

Mine demolished an entire rhubarb plant in under 10mins I wouldn't recommend putting it within reach!

 

[vehve]

You could always fence in the rhubarb, build a chicken wire cage around it. All our berry bushes and the rhubarb are in the front yard, the chickens tend to stay in the fenced in back yard most of the time.

 

[smhoekzema]

Are other people's chickens moulting? My poor girls look awful! No eggs either

How dare you take a photo of me looking like this!!

Poor girls almost bald

 

[appps]

Are other people's chickens moulting? My poor girls look awful! No eggs either

How dare you take a photo of me looking like this!!

Poor girls almost bald

Yep, dusted mine today, was like dusting a flock of porcupines ;-)

 

[smhoekzema]

Yep, dusted mine today, was like dusting a flock of porcupines ;-)

Yep that jobs on for tomorrow. It means it's probably more thorough though! Can get right to the skin