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

[Fancychooklady]

Tassie sure is stunning

It's not for everyone, but I highly recommend booking a trip with hubby to cradle mountain lodge. See the Devils feeding platform , enjoy good food and wine by the open fire and trek up to the lake crater. It's another world.

 

[Deej211]

I have a neighbour out here who introduces me to people as chicken kym

bahahaha

 

[Deej211]

Ok crazy chicken people!!! I need to buy some fertile eggs. Whos got some and whos willing to post? I am chasing 4 doz. I am interested in araucanas, wyandottes, marans and polish. Come at me!!! need to have a paypal as i am rural with no bank annnndddd go!

 

[sjturner79]

Ok crazy chicken people!!! I need to buy some fertile eggs. Whos got some and whos willing to post? I am chasing 4 doz. I am interested in araucanas, wyandottes, marans and polish. Come at me!!! need to have a paypal as i am rural with no bank annnndddd go!

There is apt of chicken people near me that would love to be getting eggs at the minute as everybody in the region seems to have been eggless for about 5 weeks

 

[appps]

There is apt of chicken people near me that would love to be getting eggs at the minute as everybody in the region seems to have been eggless for about 5 weeks

Yeah, the mild summer seems to have confused them or something. Moulting hard and eggless so long eggs are now part of my standard weeks shopping :-(

 

[Teila]

Eggs? Of what do you speak? Might have to Google that one!

Beautiful pics Fancy. Hubby lived in Tasmania (Hobart, Launceston and Deloraine) for 19 or so years. I have never been but a visit or even a permanent move is definitely on the cards; he loves Tasmania and misses it very much.

appps good to hear that Carl is still doing OK; it would be a big op for a little chicken.

 

[satay]

Ok crazy chicken people!!! I need to buy some fertile eggs. Whos got some and whos willing to post? I am chasing 4 doz. I am interested in araucanas, wyandottes, marans and polish. Come at me!!! need to have a paypal as i am rural with no bank annnndddd go!

Probably wrong time for marans. I will have some when they start to lay again.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic...7ph-avianflu&utm_campaign=Content&sf9041024=1

You guys heard of this yet? It's truly horrific.
I wonder why so many birds have been infected. Now it couldn't have anything to do with the over crowding of caged birds could it!?!....


I hate how this paragraph concentrates on the lack of effect the problem has on the poultry industry, never mind the 26 million dead birds.

"Twenty-six million sounds like a lot of birds—but while the epidemic is devastating to states and to individual farmers, so far it has barely dented the United States’ poultry supply. The U.S., after all, produces about 9 billion meat chickens, 360 million laying hens and 240 million turkeys per year; the current losses equal less than three-tenths of one percent of the total."

 

[Fancychooklady]

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic...7ph-avianflu&utm_campaign=Content&sf9041024=1

You guys heard of this yet? It's truly horrific.
I wonder why so many birds have been infected. Now it couldn't have anything to do with the over crowding of caged birds could it!?!....


I hate how this paragraph concentrates on the lack of effect the problem has on the poultry industry, never mind the 26 million dead birds.

"Twenty-six million sounds like a lot of birds—but while the epidemic is devastating to states and to individual farmers, so far it has barely dented the United States’ poultry supply. The U.S., after all, produces about 9 billion meat chickens, 360 million laying hens and 240 million turkeys per year; the current losses equal less than three-tenths of one percent of the total."

There are threads on here discussing the impact on some BYC members. It is particularly devastating to turkey farmers. Backyard poultry owners have been warned to keep their birds locked up.
Hope it doesn't make its way down here once the wild birds start their migration.

 

[IamSamSam]

There are threads on here discussing the impact on some BYC members. It is particularly devastating to turkey farmers. Backyard poultry owners have been warned to keep their birds locked up.
Hope it doesn't make its way down here once the wild birds start their migration.

That's what I was worried about. Probably how it's spread so badly in US