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

[IamSamSam]

Sam, thanks   It's my first attempt at a chicken coop.

The white tree pic was taken off of the internet, I prefer indigenous needled trees in my yard. But those do look nice.

I refuse to have a plastic tree 1. I love the smell ( brings back childhood memories) and 2. Plastic is worse for the environment than a plantation tree being harvested!

Last year we had a very big spider in ours. When I was a kid it was a ringtail possum so we decorated and left it out side on the verandah. Apparently I wouldn't let dad relocate the little critter.

 

[IamSamSam]

Oh I almost forgot. Fancy. I took a pic on my phone of our Brushtail to show u how grey they are compared to you blacker ones

 

[vehve]

Quote: I dislike plastic trees too. My mom owns about 30 hectares of forest a hundred kilometers from here, we go there every year to pick out a tree.

 

[IamSamSam]

This is mine Vehve. Made from pallets and leftover colourbond fence they free range too

 

[vehve]

Sam, I envy how easily you can enlarge your run. I couldn't make something like that, without a roof it would be a mud pile in no time. Happy looking chooks.

 

[IamSamSam]

LOL the coop is on bricks due to the flood waters that run under it when we have bad rain. It has been a mud pit a number of times but I leave the door open and they free range.

I actually took the pic of the girls cause the turned their collective noses up at the butternut pumpkin!

I used an old shade clothe over the run for shade during summer but if it's up too early it gets covered in leaves.

 

[Fancychooklady]

I dislike plastic trees too. My mom owns about 30 hectares of forest a hundred kilometers from here, we go there every year to pick out a tree.

Lol, I remember my mother in law used to buy the lovely spruce trees in the pot and put them out on the verandah till the following year. Once they got too big she'd plant them out in the garden. One year they were bringing the tree in for Xmas and a king brown snake rolled out of the pot, that put an end to that tradition.

 

[satay]

More chicks hatching.

so sweet

 

[satay]

My 8 chicks are now 11 weeks old, 4 hens and 4 roosters. I have the inevitable task of removing some of the roosters soon, this bloke has started attacking me and the hens so he's made the list, sadly for him

It's s shame but unfortunately a thing we have to get used to when you breed chickens.

 

[satay]

I refuse to have a plastic tree 1. I love the smell ( brings back childhood memories) and 2. Plastic is worse for the environment than a plantation tree being harvested!

Last year we had a very big spider in ours. When I was a kid it was a ringtail possum so we decorated and left it out side on the verandah. Apparently I wouldn't let dad relocate the little critter.

I'm a plastic tree kinda girl. Used to have real ones in brissy but out here I find plastic so much easier .