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

Sounds like exciting times for you Fancy.

Teila, I ordered a cat trap yesterday. I know my chickens are noisy, but they sleep at night. I have been struggling to get my kids out of bed in the mornings because a roaming cat is upsetting our cat by walking on our front lawn at all hours of the night. Rosie may be tiny and hardly makes a peep, has the tiniest purr, but is HIGHLY territorial and responds to incursions by screaming her head off and trying to attack through the window waking the whole house up in the process. So, the intruder has to go.

I thought our heatwave was bad, but Perth sounds hideous at the moment. Hoping that everyone's chooks make it through ok.
 
Sometimes it does feel as though everything is out to get our chooks. Beware the laughing bird, whilst he probably wouldn't take on a big bird , I wouldn't put it past him to have a go at your bantams. After all anything that will take on and kill a snake is certainly up for a little chicken rustling.
I was sitting on the verandah enjoying a coffee when a kookaburra landed on the grass in front of me
Pity I didn't have the camera on me. I did however keep a close eye on him. ;)

I hadn't thought of the kookie being an issue. we have 100s sometimes in the trees out here. I have never seen them bother any of my chickens bantams or large fowl but thinking now they could be an issue with small chicks. I have seem then with the odd young snake in their beaks though. Speaking of snakes we all know my love of them by now so I have two recent stories to share. First one is Last friday i was talking to teenage son in the yard when we wandered over to look at the budgie cage as miss over achiever had started to hatch some more babies that morning. She had 3 of the last five with her still and the new ones hatching. I could only find 2 which was odd so went in to make sure one wasn't caught under the corro i have for the quails to go under. Chatting away to son and not paying that much attention i lift up the corro to find a snake. A spotted python had eaten my budgie.. Darn. Found a tiny little hole where it had got in. Little snake relocated and hole patched. Number two was a bit more exciting as i got to see red belly again for the first time this season. I'll call it a she but i really have no clue of the sex but she slithered right up near me again and looked as she does like hey ya i'm back again and off she slithered into the bushes. I know they are deadly and that freaks alot of people out but she has never shown any sign of aggression towards me of thor (he's everywhere with me ) She like just came to say hi and off she goes. I am quite attached to seeing her and hope she stays on our property as the neighbors are not snake lovers like me and they would quickly put a bullet in her.
 
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I hadn't thought of the kookie being an issue. we have 100s sometimes in the trees out here. I have never seen them bother any of my chickens bantams or large fowl but thinking now they could be an issue with small chicks. I have seem then with the odd young snake in their beaks though. Speaking of snakes we all know my love of them by now so I have two recent stories to share. First one is Last friday i was talking to teenage son in the yard when we wandered over to look at the budgie cage as miss over achiever had started to hatch some more babies that morning. She had 3 of the last five with her still and the new ones hatching. I could only find 2 which was odd so went in to make sure one wasn't caught under the corro i have for the quails to go under. Chatting away to son and not paying that much attention i lift up the corro to find a snake. A spotted python had eaten my budgie.. Darn. Found a tiny little hole where it had got in. Little snake relocated and hole patched. Number two was a bit more exciting as i got to see red belly again for the first time this season. I'll call it a she but i really have no clue of the sex but she slithered right up near me again and looked as she does like hey ya i'm back again and off she slithered into the bushes. I know they are deadly and that freaks alot of people out but she has never shown any sign of aggression towards me of thor (he's everywhere with me ) She like just came to say hi and off she goes. I am quite attached to seeing her and hope she stays on our property as the neighbors are not snake lovers like me and they would quickly put a bullet in her.

Poor little birdie. :(
At least you have made friends with one of the less venomous snakes , now if that was a tiger or a king brown the story might be different. The snake that I encountered last week apparently killed the neighbors dog. :rolleyes:
 
Hi everyone. I'm new to this forum. I've got 10 Isa Browns, a 7 wk and 2 2 wk old australorps and 5 2wk old silkies. I've got 21 australorp eggs in the incubator. Hoping not to have too many roosters. I was wondering if anyone could tell me if my 7 wk old chick can handle being outside in the heat I live in Gosnells WA, at the moment I've got all the chicks in the laundry but its getting crowded. They are all trying to escape. Haha
Thanks
 
Hi Lucky's mum! I don't know much about chickens, but I wouldn't put a chick that young out in this heat. Does it have all its feathers yet?

When I got my new girls, they were 8/9 weeks and 12 weeks. The chook farm told me they could go outside, but it was not hot like this.... This weather is too much to ask of anyone so little, IMO. I'd wait until this heatwave is over, another week or so(please, please, be over then), before moving them outside.

EDIT: where will she be going? Is their outside house in the shade?
 
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Thanks for replying, I was going to put her under our mango tree she has a bunny hutch and its cooler than anywhere else. She does have some feathers. I just think she is getting cramped. Though she does have quite a big box. I don't mind keeping her in. I guess we just have to pray for cooler weather next week is another hot week.
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It's like us. The bigger we are, the longer it takes for us to dehydrate. A little itty bitty chook wouldn't take as long to succumb to the heat as a big chook. Also, I think they need to have feathers before they can cope with outdoors temperature. Until they've got feathers, I think it's like being naked and way quicker to succumb to extreme temperatures.
 
Hi everyone. I'm new to this forum. I've got 10 Isa Browns, a 7 wk  and 2  2 wk old australorps and 5 2wk old silkies. I've got 21 australorp eggs in the incubator. Hoping not to have too many roosters. I was wondering if anyone could tell me if my 7 wk old chick can handle being outside in the heat I live in Gosnells WA, at the moment I've got  all the chicks in the laundry but its getting crowded. They are all trying to escape.  Haha
Thanks


:welcome. It is best to aclimatize the chicks to the outside world a little at a time. If your chick hasn't been outdoors before it is best not to begin the transition in extreme weather.
You might find that that the chick will also become quite anxious on its own , so it's always best to give them a buddy. :)
 
Early morning what do you do.

So I let the chooks out and the ran around for the scratch mix then Pepper started to sneeze. She sneezed and sneezed, the whole time keeping her mouth open between to mouth breathe. Went on for a good five minutes. It appeared that she had something caught and was trying to sneeze it out which is understandable as she is a real pig with food.

I had no idea how to help? Eventually after I grabbed her to put her near the water that must have moved it as she stopped and then ran off to try and eat Carl's breakfast. What is the procedure to assist in that sort of scenario though?

As for Carl, we have had about three days where she wouldn't eat anything. Not even watermelon or scrambled eggs! Yesterday she ate some watermelon and this morning I tried the scrambled ages again and she did eat some. All she really wants to do is eat the dirt.
 

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