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

[satay]

My Blue and Black Australorps went into lockdown today and they are already wobbling and moving. Can't wait for them to hatch!

good hatching vibes for you cb. Posts pics when they hatch.

 

[appps]

Does anyone have any experience with Barter and Sons Hatchery?  Or are there any other sites that ship day olds within Australia?

I've not heard of that one. Are they close to you? How do they ship them? Not Australia post I hope !! Lol

 

[satay]

Does anyone have any experience with Barter and Sons Hatchery?  Or are there any other sites that ship day olds within Australia?

I personally would try to buy day old locally if you can. Shipping day olds would be very hard on them i would think. Or get some eggs and put under a broody if you have one.

 

[Fancychooklady]

I personally would try to buy day old locally if you can. Shipping day olds would be very hard on them i would think. Or get some eggs and put under a broody if you have one.

Can you even ship live chicks in Aus ? I would think that RSPCA would be all over that one.

 

[satay]

You can. There are many transport companies that do it now.

 

[satay]

Hay, today dad got 2 bags of layer mash ( not to high in protein ) so he got a bag of meat meal ( suggested by the store ).
How much meat meal to one 20 kg bag of layer mash should I put in???

You would have to work out the protein level of both Luke. Say your mash is 15% and your meal is 27% if you did 50/50 it would work out at an average of 21% protein. Just adjust it til you get the % you want.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Well I live and learn! There's a lady on backyard poultry advertising that she's going to the mainland and has spaces to carry chooks up the east coast to QLD. I was wondering how that works. My daughter is competing at show jumping nationals in Perth and her horse has to go through quarantine , and have hendra shots and ( pardon the pun ) jump through all sorts of hoops.

 

[youngchooklover]

HELLO ALL.

 

[K Spot]

Are these your's or Renise's or a mix? Did you get a idea of how your lad is doing in the fertility department?

I love those last couple of days of a hatch

Would anyone mind sharing their Welsummer egg pics? I am curious to know how dark they are compared to a local Maran's.

Bens-Hens - These are my some of my Welsummer eggs from a Welsummer breeder in QLD.



There's 4 in there I think, the darkest ones.

I sent the breeder a pic of them the other day as she wanted to see the colour of them. She's constantly trying to improve the egg colour.

 

[K Spot]

Well I live and learn! There's a lady on backyard poultry advertising that she's going to the mainland and has spaces to carry chooks up the east coast to QLD. I was wondering how that works. My daughter is competing at show jumping nationals in Perth and her horse has to go through quarantine , and have hendra shots and ( pardon the pun ) jump through all sorts of hoops.

Fancy - many places now have that Hendra requirement; all horses that competed at the Royal Brisbane this year had to have been done. I have my mare done.