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

[satay]

Reset the incubator last night with marans and some Belgians.

 

[K.Riggs]

Hi everyone,

I'm situated in the beautiful Huon Valley in Tasmania and since becoming a chicken owner around a year ago i have become obsessed with poultry. Not something i expected haha. Happy to have found this board, i have lurked for a while now and finally decided to join.

 

[K.Riggs]

Oh on my 1.5 acre patch i have 4 araucana cross hens and two araucana cross roosters. 6 australorp x barnevelder hens and a breeding pair of Embden geese. Also three sheep and looks like i have two Muscovy drakes coming next week.

 

[satay]

Hi everyone,

I'm situated in the beautiful Huon Valley in Tasmania and since becoming a chicken owner around a year ago i have become obsessed with poultry. Not something i expected haha. Happy to have found this board, i have lurked for a while now and finally decided to join.

Welcome i believe Fancychooklady is from down your way.

 

[satay]

Oh on my 1.5 acre patch i have 4 araucana cross hens and two araucana cross roosters. 6 australorp x barnevelder hens and a breeding pair of Embden geese. Also three sheep and looks like i have two Muscovy drakes coming next week.

They become addictive don't they. When i first moved here 10 years ago i had just one little bantam hen and 4 muscovy ducks... Now i have ducks, a turkey, 50 oddish chickens, babys hatching all the time, budgies, ringneck parrots and a rainbow lorikeet and 2 snakes, the cat and the dog. I had sheep for a while but none right not.

 

[K.Riggs]

Yes they really do become addictive!! I keep finding myself looking at my yard thinking ooh there is an un-used patch, what could i put there haha.

 

[satay]

Yes they really do become addictive!! I keep finding myself looking at my yard thinking ooh there is an un-used patch, what could i put there haha.

Me too we have 6 acres and a free pen at the moment and I've been trying to convince hubby to let me get pigs... Just for pets but he wants to eat them so we are at a standstill on that one still lol

 

[Andypandy]

Good to catch up with all the news from all who are here at the moment. Not getting notifications to my email addy, so I have to rely on the one I have kept ( plus a bookmark !! - which doesn't always work too well ) ... not much news from here, except it has been so darned cold, icy wind chills, .... and only one chooken is laying --- Madam Mindy Araucana who is producing about 5 eggs a week - all olive coloured. Her blue eggs ( 3 ) have all broken and she's eaten the yolk. Not laying soft shells ( balloon type ) ... rather occasional fragile (blue) eggs that break if she drops them from a great height. Have kept her off all 'treats' so's she is forced to eat her layer pellets when hungry, which contains the appropriate amount of calcium for her (she hates oyster shell grits ). But, brother, does she EAT !!

As mentioned before, my two old large girls ( Mandy Welsummer and Molly RIR ) I think have taken retirement from egg laying ( who could blame them ) ... but one might surprise one day ??? ... meantime, they are all healthy and happy, so that's the main thing. Hope to see many more Aussie peeps back here soon.

Have enjoyed all the pics posted - and your silkies are beautiful .. IamSamSam.

Cheers ~~~

Fancy .... your splash silkie is adorable. That gorgeous full head of downy fluff. Beautiful.

Not too chuffed about the new format. I think I may be missing out on quite a lot, but then maybe not - as many ppl who used to post regularly, are not posting now ?? Hope that is only a temporary problem.

Teila has not been seen at all, and she was a profilic poster, however, she is up in the northern regions of Queensland now, and has more than plenty to do, settling into her new home.

Take care - hope the weather is being sort of kindly for you. I know you Tassie folks have had more snow.

Cheers .......

nice to someone else from upwey.

 

[K.Riggs]

Me too we have 6 acres and a free pen at the moment and I've been trying to convince hubby to let me get pigs... Just for pets but he wants to eat them so we are at a standstill on that one still lol

Haha, yes i'm thinking of building a pen and getting a piglet.. For the purpose of bacon though.. So i guess i'm with your hubby on that one :-D

 

[Fancychooklady]

Hi everyone,

I'm situated in the beautiful Huon Valley in Tasmania and since becoming a chicken owner around a year ago i have become obsessed with poultry. Not something i expected haha. Happy to have found this board, i have lurked for a while now and finally decided to join.

welcome, as Satay said I'm located in the Huon Valley too.