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

[Anniebee]

Molly RIR has laid three lovely pink eggs. Expect a 4th tomorrow morning some time. Mindy Araucana is laying whopper eggs, mostly whole and perfect. Only an occasional 'fragile' shell, nowadays. She gets Anitone every day. ... as does Mandy. Molly probably doesn't need it, but sure would like it. !!

Only took a bit of sunshine and warm weather - and presto - the innards started working again for Molly RIR.

Mandy - who continues to puzzle Vets ( specialist and all ) and me - continues to eat like a horse, drink plenty, walk (when she wants to ) ... and sit down a lot with tail raised. If I appear at the back door with what remotely resembles food, she is there - slow walking to the appointed place for tucker. Other than that, she can walk out proudly for a while - before spreading her wings, and plopping down to peck at the ground - or just rest, tail up. ... I doubt however, she will ever lay again.

Weirdest chookie in existence.

I simply cannot have her put to sleep, as she is so robust within herself with much interest in everything - especially getting out into the garden. I have concluded that she has small 'spasms' of arthritic interference in walking / weight bearing ... and none of it is helped by Molly who runs up and down the fence, and pushes poor Mandy out of the way. But - Mandy tolerates it all - although she did have a good peck at Molly a couple of days back - right on her comb. Didn't do any damage though, but she's still feisty. Loves cuddles and TLC is helping I think.

Cheers all - have a good week.


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[Fizzybelle]

Tee hee sjturner79 hang up the ‘No Vacancy’ sign

Hey Fizzybelle I put a whole corn on the cob in the run one day; the way the girls reacted you would have thought it was a grenade with the pin pulled

They avoided it for hours until I could take no more laughing. They were more than happy to eat the corn when I pulled the kernels off the cob for them!

Yep, Dusty is a Bantam Langshan

In the flock she is Aunty Dusty and everyone's friend and who they run to if they are being picked on etc. She breaks up fights and yep, is the protector. However, she is 2IC to Cilla .. not sure what Cilla does to keep her #1 status; she pretty much ignores everyone and bounces around the place like a feathered beach ball

Lol, mine will eat it on the cob, but it inevitably ends up covered in dirt even if I place it on the grass. Or, the underside is neglected until I turn it over. And thank you, I might look into langshans as well. I don't really have a peacemaker in my flock, that's my job. When Mabel gets picked on these days she runs and jumps on my lap for hugs. Or if any of them want acknowledgment for something, they whinge at me. I am mother hen to all.

Sjturner79, wow nearly 100 chickens! Do your chicken chores currently take a while to do, or is it pretty much downpat? I'm raking the lawn everyday now to keep the summer flies down from five fluffy butts working overtime. Though once we fence of the yard and the chooks are more or less relegated to the jungle part of the yard it should be less, as they turn over the ground litter.

Oh, and an open question here, what are quail classified as, are they poultry? I looked up the Brisbane city council website about keeping fowl, but no mention of quail, it lists only chickens, ducks, geese and peawfowl I think, and guidelines for keeping them. If so, then I'm guessing they're perhaps in a grey area, and perhaps not restricted like poultry are, by property size. Also, are they noisy say in comparison to a bantam chicken like a Pekin or D'Uccle (not that anything could be louder than my Beatrice)? Thank you

 

[Fancychooklady]

Lol, mine will eat it on the cob, but it inevitably ends up covered in dirt even if I place it on the grass. Or, the underside is neglected until I turn it over. And thank you, I might look into langshans as well. I don't really have a peacemaker in my flock, that's my job. When Mabel gets picked on these days she runs and jumps on my lap for hugs. Or if any of them want acknowledgment for something, they whinge at me. I am mother hen to all.

Sjturner79, wow nearly 100 chickens! Do your chicken chores currently take a while to do, or is it pretty much downpat? I'm raking the lawn everyday now to keep the summer flies down from five fluffy butts working overtime. Though once we fence of the yard and the chooks are more or less relegated to the jungle part of the yard it should be less, as they turn over the ground litter.

Oh, and an open question here, what are quail classified as, are they poultry? I looked up the Brisbane city council website about keeping fowl, but no mention of quail, it lists only chickens, ducks, geese and peawfowl I think, and guidelines for keeping them. If so, then I'm guessing they're perhaps in a grey area, and perhaps not restricted like poultry are, by property size. Also, are they noisy say in comparison to a bantam chicken like a Pekin or D'Uccle (not that anything could be louder than my Beatrice)? Thank you

Quail come under the same heading ' Galliformes ' as chickens but I believe are considered
'Game birds '.

 

[sjturner79]

Lol, mine will eat it on the cob, but it inevitably ends up covered in dirt even if I place it on the grass. Or, the underside is neglected until I turn it over. And thank you, I might look into langshans as well. I don't really have a peacemaker in my flock, that's my job. When Mabel gets picked on these days she runs and jumps on my lap for hugs. Or if any of them want acknowledgment for something, they whinge at me. I am mother hen to all.

Sjturner79, wow nearly 100 chickens! Do your chicken chores currently take a while to do, or is it pretty much downpat? I'm raking the lawn everyday now to keep the summer flies down from five fluffy butts working overtime. Though once we fence of the yard and the chooks are more or less relegated to the jungle part of the yard it should be less, as they turn over the ground litter.

Oh, and an open question here, what are quail classified as, are they poultry? I looked up the Brisbane city council website about keeping fowl, but no mention of quail, it lists only chickens, ducks, geese and peawfowl I think, and guidelines for keeping them. If so, then I'm guessing they're perhaps in a grey area, and perhaps not restricted like poultry are, by property size. Also, are they noisy say in comparison to a bantam chicken like a Pekin or D'Uccle (not that anything could be louder than my Beatrice)? Thank you

Most of those are not yet hatched so I could (hopefully) end up with a lots less. Only 30 on the ground at the minute so chores are around 5 minutes a day. Since I won't be changing any of the living arrangements it should just mean an extra check/ fill of the water and pouring more food out for 3x the number.

 

[sjturner79]

Lol, mine will eat it on the cob, but it inevitably ends up covered in dirt even if I place it on the grass. Or, the underside is neglected until I turn it over. And thank you, I might look into langshans as well. I don't really have a peacemaker in my flock, that's my job. When Mabel gets picked on these days she runs and jumps on my lap for hugs. Or if any of them want acknowledgment for something, they whinge at me. I am mother hen to all.

Sjturner79, wow nearly 100 chickens! Do your chicken chores currently take a while to do, or is it pretty much downpat? I'm raking the lawn everyday now to keep the summer flies down from five fluffy butts working overtime. Though once we fence of the yard and the chooks are more or less relegated to the jungle part of the yard it should be less, as they turn over the ground litter.

Oh, and an open question here, what are quail classified as, are they poultry? I looked up the Brisbane city council website about keeping fowl, but no mention of quail, it lists only chickens, ducks, geese and peawfowl I think, and guidelines for keeping them. If so, then I'm guessing they're perhaps in a grey area, and perhaps not restricted like poultry are, by property size. Also, are they noisy say in comparison to a bantam chicken like a Pekin or D'Uccle (not that anything could be louder than my Beatrice)? Thank you

Try thier rules on "exempt native birds " as many quails are native to Australia, and that what our council lists them as.

 

[satay]

Lol, mine will eat it on the cob, but it inevitably ends up covered in dirt even if I place it on the grass. Or, the underside is neglected until I turn it over. And thank you, I might look into langshans as well. I don't really have a peacemaker in my flock, that's my job. When Mabel gets picked on these days she runs and jumps on my lap for hugs. Or if any of them want acknowledgment for something, they whinge at me. I am mother hen to all.

Sjturner79, wow nearly 100 chickens! Do your chicken chores currently take a while to do, or is it pretty much downpat? I'm raking the lawn everyday now to keep the summer flies down from five fluffy butts working overtime. Though once we fence of the yard and the chooks are more or less relegated to the jungle part of the yard it should be less, as they turn over the ground litter.

Oh, and an open question here, what are quail classified as, are they poultry? I looked up the Brisbane city council website about keeping fowl, but no mention of quail, it lists only chickens, ducks, geese and peawfowl I think, and guidelines for keeping them. If so, then I'm guessing they're perhaps in a grey area, and perhaps not restricted like poultry are, by property size. Also, are they noisy say in comparison to a bantam chicken like a Pekin or D'Uccle (not that anything could be louder than my Beatrice)? Thank you

I know quite a few people in the Brisbane area that keep quails. My Japanese quails are easy to care for but the males can be very loud. Up there with the Belgians.

 

[satay]

Lol, mine will eat it on the cob, but it inevitably ends up covered in dirt even if I place it on the grass. Or, the underside is neglected until I turn it over. And thank you, I might look into langshans as well. I don't really have a peacemaker in my flock, that's my job. When Mabel gets picked on these days she runs and jumps on my lap for hugs. Or if any of them want acknowledgment for something, they whinge at me. I am mother hen to all.

Sjturner79, wow nearly 100 chickens! Do your chicken chores currently take a while to do, or is it pretty much downpat? I'm raking the lawn everyday now to keep the summer flies down from five fluffy butts working overtime. Though once we fence of the yard and the chooks are more or less relegated to the jungle part of the yard it should be less, as they turn over the ground litter.

Oh, and an open question here, what are quail classified as, are they poultry? I looked up the Brisbane city council website about keeping fowl, but no mention of quail, it lists only chickens, ducks, geese and peawfowl I think, and guidelines for keeping them. If so, then I'm guessing they're perhaps in a grey area, and perhaps not restricted like poultry are, by property size. Also, are they noisy say in comparison to a bantam chicken like a Pekin or D'Uccle (not that anything could be louder than my Beatrice)? Thank you

I have about 70 chickens at present ,6 ducks and the two gobblers. quails, the budgies, ring necks and squirty. Takes me about an hour each morning for all the chores. Mine takes longer probably too because i have so many different cages.

 

[Fancychooklady]

I have about 70 chickens at present ,6 ducks and the two gobblers. quails, the budgies, ring necks and squirty. Takes me about an hour each morning for all the chores. Mine takes longer probably too because i have so many different cages.

My morning rounds take about the same time. My Orpington are hatching away this morning and I need to provide another brooder for them , might have to borrow another heat lamp as mine is in with the Coro.
Heatwave forecast for us today . 30 + I know that doesn't seem very hot for you guys but 30 feels more like 40 here.

 

[Fizzybelle]

Thanks Fancy and Sjturner79. I'll look into the exempt native birds as well.

 

[Callhuss]

Does anyone have any Pygmy geese in Australia