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

[sjturner79]

Try Facebook. There is a breeder just start Marans on here but central coast nsw. There a few in central north Vic too. I'll have to find the websites for you.

 

[sjturner79]

Ohh sorry I replied about chooks and your chasing other poultry.

 

[appps]

You could also try googling poultry clubs in your area. Even if they don't have what you are after they may know someone who does.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Hello all! 
I'm quite aware that this is very off topic, and that normally I ought to go to the BST sub-section, but I can't find anyone selling any poultry at all in Australia there. Are there by chance any breeders of pea fowl, ducks (any variety is of interest to me), guinea fowl, geese or turkeys in South-eastish NSW?  
I'm willing to travel further if there are no breeders at semi-affordable prices nearby.
Thanks.  

nice to have you onboard .
This site is Aus wide.

http://www.backyardpoultry.com/noticeboard/index.php?cat_id=2

 

[Teila]

Ok, so I am officially scratching my head and I have no idea what is going on!

Dusty came back from a moult-break to laying. She laid 19 eggs between 13th May and 2nd July and has now not laid for 8 days.

Her comb has good colour, she looks healthy, poops normal, nice green sheen on her black feathers etc. Dusty is a 2 year and 5 month old Bantam Langshan. Dusty has never been broody.

Dusty is the one who woke me up with crowing on Wednesday morning.

Well, Dusty is now ‘standing guard’; she is ‘watching’ while everyone else is scratching and having fun in the garden AND she is picking up bits of grass, bugs etc and calling over the others and feeding them! We gave them all meal worms and Dusty took hers and called over KiKi and gave it to her! Dusty NEVER shares food; especially not meal worms!

She is also ‘rumbling’ a lot; if that makes sense…pacing around, rumbling at things, growling under her breath.

Her behaviour is kind of typical broody except that she is not being grumpy with the rest of the flock, more protective and feeding them; we are talking about 4month to 2.5 year old chickens. As I mentioned before, she has never been broody and has never hatched eggs.

Blondie is definitely going to lay her first egg back from a break very shortly and is wandering around the garden telling everyone about it; she is making frequent trips to the nest box and has been chowing into the shell grit. I think she is going to lay today.

Anyways, Dusty is following her around, if Blondie goes into the coop, Dusty follows and stands there, rumbling, no aggression towards Blondie, basically just that. If Blondie leaves the nest box, Dusty follows.

I have never had a rooster so do not know what typical rooster behaviour is; but I am wondering if she is in fact, turning into a Henster?

 

[Butteryscotch]

Ohh sorry I replied about chooks and your chasing other poultry.

Thanks anyway! I appreciate all the recommendations that I can get.

You could also try googling poultry clubs in your area. Even if they don't have what you are after they may know someone who does.

Sounds promising. I've heard of a few around the place, but they don't seem extremely active (though, to be fair, I wasn't looking for them!).

nice to have you onboard .
This site is Aus wide.

http://www.backyardpoultry.com/noticeboard/index.php?cat_id=2

Thanks for the warm welcome!

 

[Teila]

Hey Butteryscotch

Apologies, my bewilderment at what my silly hen is doing caused me to not welcome you.

Welcome to BYC and the thread; good to meet you!

 

[Butteryscotch]

Hey Butteryscotch

Apologies, my bewilderment at what my silly hen is doing caused me to not welcome you.

Welcome to BYC and the thread; good to meet you!

Haha!
Sorry, I completely missed your previous message. Thanks allot for such a comfortable introduction!

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Welcome Butteryscotch!!!

Yeah check facebook and a site called Backyard Poultry. Good luck in finding what you want.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Setting these eggs in the incubator today with a few others.