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

[Henriettasmum]

I meant cockatoos lol not cockatiel

Yes, I realised that. Sometimes the fingers just go where they want and not where the brain tells them!!

 

[SilkieChickStar]

Yes, I realised that. Sometimes the fingers just go where they want and not where the brain tells them!!

 

[satay]

Used to get heaps of heavy frosts decades back when I was a kid, walking to school, crunching it underfoot.   Great fun.     Doesn't happen so much now, the frosts - but ice forms a lot everywhere, and on the roads nowadays after rains and rapid drops in temperature - and that can be dangerous.    Not sure if the suburbs still get frosty lawns, we are largely under a high canopy of trees, so perhaps that's why there is less frost around.   Iced over windows on cars though.    

Still fascinates me that sunny Queensland can get such cold weather.    I have to admit though, I loathe summers down here - especially if dry heat.   Dangerous for where we live, in the hills east of Melbourne.    However, if it continues to do its 'Queensland thing' this coming summer, as it has in recent years .... hot, very high humidity and lots of warm rain, I will settle for that, uncomfortable though it can be.  

Cheers ......  

Hehehe Yes it's cold here this morning. Current temp 2c with a feels like temp of 0c.. I'm off to Brissy in the morning to visit mum for the day so I will be up at 4.30am feeding the girls before we go. That should be fun .... Not ...

 

[satay]

Mine prefer it cooked, I put it in the oven whole for about 50 mins , let it cool and then drop it in the pen when it hits the ground it breaks open for them. I've tried raw but it takes them ages to eat .
This is how I cook my pumpkin for soup too, it's so much easier to scoop out and has that roast flavour. Will try the ginger addition next time.

I must have vultures as i just smash a whole one over the fence and it's gone by the afternoon. I love pumpkin soup too and pumpkin scones.

 

[MyHaven]

Hehehe Yes it's cold here this morning. Current temp 2c with a feels like temp of 0c.. I'm off to Brissy in the morning to visit mum for the day so I will be up at 4.30am feeding the girls before we go. That should be fun .... Not ...

At least you were up before the coldest part of the day. Brissy is quite comfortable today. 11 at the moment and it only got as low as 8.

 

[SilkieChickStar]

At least you were up before the coldest part of the day. Brissy is quite comfortable today. 11 at the moment and it only got as low as 8.

My chickens are soaking up the sunshine

 

[satay]

At least you were up before the coldest part of the day. Brissy is quite comfortable today. 11 at the moment and it only got as low as 8.

Can't wait

 

[Teila]

Good morning folks

Just on the Queensland temp chat .. a colleague lives in Toowoomba and woke up to -2C the other day.

I think it was 6C this morning when I fed the girls and currently it is only 12C.

Anniebee LuLu has been moulting for a while now also. She started with the head and neck, then completely lost her tail, which has now grown back. I figured she was done but this morning, in the coop, she has now decided to drop her wing feathers .. she has been dragging this one out for months.

Dusty seems to be staggering hers this season also.

+1 on chickens not liking the wind … mine hate it!

sjturner79 and satay congrats on the bubs .. adorable!!

SilkieChickStar I usually start bantam to bantam integration around 12 weeks of age.

We have a local resident who feeds the Sulphur Crested Cockatoos of an afternoon and hundreds of them show up .. I have no idea how they can afford to feed them all and the noise is unbelievable … they still frighten the beejeezus out of the girls every afternoon when they fly over and around.

Cilla was scratching around in the nest box yesterday and I caught her sitting in there at lunch time. She is not squatting yet but may be, just may be we might be getting an egg soon; that will make a change

 

[MyHaven]

Saturday one of the Dorathys, SLW that weighed as much as a piece of paper vanished while free ranging. I couldn't see a sign of her. I thought she had dropped off somewhere. That night the temp got to its coldest here so far and the next night it rained and we had wind. I hoped she was dead and not trapped somewhere as with no fat on her bones and no one to snuggle with I dreaded a horrible suffering.

Yesterday morning bold as brass she comes scurrying out from under a tuft of long grass. I wish she could talk. I'm so proud of her for finding her way home from goodness only knows where. She had nothing in her crop which is to be expected at 6am any. She showed no signs of injury or being worse for wear except I can see her veins on her legs. I have never noticed that before. Does anyone know what that means?

This morning she was beating the others to treats. And seemed proud of it.

Jolly wild cat came back and attacked my cat again yesterday afternoon. 4th trip to the vet because of it.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Saturday one of the Dorathys, SLW that weighed as much as a piece of paper vanished while free ranging. I couldn't see a sign of her. I thought she had dropped off somewhere. That night the temp got to its coldest here so far and the next night it rained and we had wind. I hoped she was dead and not trapped somewhere as with no fat on her bones and no one to snuggle with I dreaded a horrible suffering.

Yesterday morning bold as brass she comes scurrying out from under a tuft of long grass. I wish she could talk. I'm so proud of her for finding her way home from goodness only knows where. She had nothing in her crop which is to be expected at 6am any. She showed no signs of injury or being worse for wear except I can see her veins on her legs. I have never noticed that before. Does anyone know what that means?

This morning she was beating the others to treats. And seemed proud of it.

Jolly wild cat came back and attacked my cat again yesterday afternoon. 4th trip to the vet because of it.

Your hen could be nesting in the bushes, in the past I've assumed certain death only to have them March out from behind the hay with 14 chicks.
I would be trapping that feral cat.