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

[satay]

****, those metal sheets are always after blood. Wow, I love all the pictures! The Marans look nice Pinky (and I love all the chick pics

). The first turkey egg laid by my hen: And here is what I've spent my day doing! This is a pen for 45 four week old quails. I'll keep them here until they start laying (about 2 weeks, though I've had quail start laying at 5 1/2 weeks) and then sort them into what I'm keeping and what I'm selling (I'm keeping the biggest and about half the deep dark brown). Here is my favourite quail of the lot, she has markings (white around the mouth and patches above the eyes) like that of The Joker off Batman. ... I have another 40 or so 1 week olds... I need to slow down on the quail breeding... I feed them the lauke mills Gamebird Starter ($27 a 20kg bag) and the amount of quails I have mean they go through it in about a week.

Love the quails and the turkey egg. I feed mine lauke mills gamebird too and you may me seem quite tame in the amount I use. I get it for $19 a bag from my produce out at Gatton so not so bad. 1 bag last me about 3 weeks.

 

[satay]

So jealous ! Finger limes ! Yum. I'd take a few off your hands lol
Oh I know lol I can't understand it.

I will send you down some if it ever sets fruit. It tried to last season but the got so big and fell off so fingers crossed for this season. The trouble with buying out there fruit trees like I do is that it seems to take forever for you to get fruit but when you do it is so worth it. My ice cream bean tree had fruit for the first time last year. My white sapote (custard pudding plant) did but I am still awaiting my finger lime, jak fruit and chocolate sapote (chocolate pudding tree) and jabaotica . Waited agers for me brazillian cherry to fruit and when it did... it's foul lol I also have a miracle fruit tree. If you have never tried one they are amazing. You eat the fruit and then say eat a lemon and it makes the lemon sweet. Spinny little fruit they are.

 

[Redoliveberry]

Satay, you are into the same sort of fruit trees as me!
Still waiting for my jaboticaba (7 years) and chocolate pudding fruit, I had one finger lime this year. Grumichama had fruits for the last two years. Yummy! I agree with you about the brazillian cherry - I can eat them, but I had better fruit. Same for panama berry. Nobody seems to like it, but nice fast growing shade tree. My angel peach set heaps of fruits already, last year I lost the lot to fruit bats, so this year I am doing something about it
Hope to have lots of acerola cherry once it gets warmer, they are beautiful and so healthy, and chickens love them too!

 

[satay]

Satay, you are into the same sort of fruit trees as me! 
Still waiting for my jaboticaba (7 years) and chocolate pudding fruit, I had one finger lime this year. Grumichama had fruits for the last two years. Yummy! I agree with you about the brazillian cherry - I can eat them, but I had better fruit. Same for panama berry. Nobody seems to like it, but nice fast growing shade tree. My angel peach set heaps of fruits already, last year I lost the lot to fruit bats, so this year I am doing something about it
Hope to have lots of acerola cherry once it gets warmer, they are beautiful and so healthy, and chickens love them too!

Sounds like some good ones there red that I haven't heard of before.. Might have to do some research and add more trees to the close to 40 odd fruit trees I have now lol

 

[satay]

Satay, you are into the same sort of fruit trees as me! 
Still waiting for my jaboticaba (7 years) and chocolate pudding fruit, I had one finger lime this year. Grumichama had fruits for the last two years. Yummy! I agree with you about the brazillian cherry - I can eat them, but I had better fruit. Same for panama berry. Nobody seems to like it, but nice fast growing shade tree. My angel peach set heaps of fruits already, last year I lost the lot to fruit bats, so this year I am doing something about it
Hope to have lots of acerola cherry once it gets warmer, they are beautiful and so healthy, and chickens love them too!

jaboticaba that's the one can never remember how to spell it.

 

[TheChookPatch]

Wow, I only have apples and plum trees here..The angelina plums are to die for though... Jealous, I might have to do some research too. . Here are a few frizzle babies, the rest of the photos were out of focus so I will take some when I get the fire going I went to pick up three and came home with 6...

 

[WengWeng]

I love this site. I have just started letting my ladies free range for a few hours per day. they are getting into my kale but have plenty to share. I have an australorp who is the piggy of the flock... cute to watch. we have lost a number of chickens from random deaths and neigbours dogs but they make me so happy. I rush home from work to see them and jump out of bed to let them out to start their day.

does melbourne weather get to cold for chickens? im relatively new to chickrn business

 

[appps]

Wow, I only have apples and plum trees here..The angelina plums are to die for though... Jealous, I might have to do some research too. . Here are a few frizzle babies, the rest of the photos were out of focus so I will take some when I get the fire going I went to pick up three and came home with 6...

Yeah I'm with you chook lol. Its almost like they are speaking another language. Never heard of any if those. Only fruit tree I have worth mentioning is a mandarin and a lemon. Everything else I try gets eaten by fruit fly :-( Am going to try taking a cutting from a plum tree at my mum and dads that has never had fruit fly though. Think it must just fruit early enough. Love the little frizzles chook, we also came home with extras when we got ours Welcome weng weng!!!

 

[satay]

Wow, I only have apples and plum trees here..The angelina plums are to die for though... Jealous, I might have to do some research too. . Here are a few frizzle babies, the rest of the photos were out of focus so I will take some when I get the fire going I went to pick up three and came home with 6...

Beautiful

 

[satay]

Yeah I'm with you chook lol. Its almost like they are speaking another language. Never heard of any if those. Only fruit tree I have worth mentioning is a mandarin and a lemon. Everything else I try gets eaten by fruit fly :-(

Am going to try taking a cutting from a plum tree at my mum and dads that has never had fruit fly though. Think it must just fruit early enough.

Love the little frizzles chook, we also came home with extras when we got ours

Welcome weng weng!!!

Lol I do have normal fruit trees too. I will try to list what I can remember I have you will see there is a lot of normal ones. 3 types of guava,2 types of grapefruit, 2 types of limes .2 types of lemons, lemonade,mandarin. bananas 2 types, kiwi fruit, blueberry,boysneberry avacado, macadamia, limes, custard apple, mango and 2 types of fig and the others I listed before. oh red I forgot In my other list I have a pepino and 2 types of dragonfruit as well.