Good morning everyone, welcome to all the newcomers.
Its freezing in Perth lately, our chooks aren't laying much either. Poor Lucky died, 2 days ago. My son went out to give them a treat at lunch time and found her torn open in the middle of the lawn. Bear got the blame but after some thought there has been a big cat hanging around so I hope it was that not Bear. Lucky was an escape artist and the only one. Bear has never touched the chooks in 8 years so I can't think that he would just start doing it now. Anyway they are locked in the enclosed coop and run and only let out when we can watch at the moment. She was our first hatch and the only one that had survived I don't have the heart to tell my granddaughters . We still have 2 australorps so I'm hoping they won't notice, though Mia seemed to know who was who. With those dying from old age and Lucky we are down to 16 chooks now. Definitely going to have to get some more.
I hope everyone is coping with the cold weather, Fancy I would love to see some snow but I'm not sure if I could cope with the cold. haha Its good to see everyone gradually finding there way back on here.
Oh sorry to hear about lucky. RIP.
it's hard to say what gets into a dogs mind , could have just been a certain set of circumstances and it may never happen again, but you are right to be cautious.
I've been selling out some of the spotty silkies and am currently preparing the breeding pens. I have a dozen eggs in the incubator, but all are spoken for.
Not much rain here but very crisp . Beauty has her winter face on.
Northwest coast. I miss the beauty of Tassie but cant say I miss the cold.. although I do have my featherdown jacket and a scalf on at moment..lol. Its a bit chilly here in the west today.
mareeirene and Em169. Happy to meet you. This is great thread, and I hope many more of the 'old crowd' return too. Many missing since BYC changed its format.
I hope it wasn't poor Bear and the culprit is the cat. Having said that we cannot trust one of our dogs around the chickens as she did up and attack them once when she was about 3 years old (and again since then) even though she had been around chickens since she was a puppy. We have a seven month old kelpie cross now and he we have had him in the pen with us and he doesn't seem to give two hoots about the chickens but I always have my guard on. 
) we took our children there a few times when they were younger when we lived in Tassie.. a few times was enough for me. Even though I was born and lived in Tassie .. I detest the cold lol
... and, they are olive in colour. The only blue one she has laid, she did so on bricks - it broke, she ate the yolk and left the sticky mess for me to clean up. 
