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

[satay]

Keep us posted about Miss Frizz.

Can't wait for the Millie update.

2 Millies with pips now. I am going to be the crazy chicken lady watching the incubator all day i can just see it

 

[satay]

I have three green cheek conures, they are awesome and very cheeky. They will be 9 years old soon.
We used to have a Sun conure and oh my gosh I loved him but we had to rehome as he was too loud for our neighbours.

I still miss him! We found him somewhere with a girlfriend for him though so he doesn't miss us lol.

If i had close neighbours with the ring necks and squirty i'd be in a tad of strife too i think.

 

[satay]

And now you know they had a far more important purpose than dinner.

Yes they sure did. We did get quite a lot of dinner gobblers before we lost the hens but these 2 guys have always been my favorites.

 

[Fancychooklady]

For Annie and anyone else that is looking for a vitamin supplement , I can recommend anatone. We use it whenever we are travelling with our horses and I have recently seen the benefits in my chooks. I can also personally recommend Riverbend poultry supplies, they stock most everything including natural remedies and most of all they are very helpful. I don't often endorse things but if you have the time have a browse.

http://www.tassiebirdandpoultrysupplies.com/Anitone_Liquid/p2684740_16109746.aspx

 

[satay]

It's snowing n the bunya mountains today. So glad i'm not there

 

[Anniebee]

For Annie and anyone else that is looking for a vitamin supplement , I can recommend anatone. We use it whenever we are travelling with our horses and I have recently seen the benefits in my chooks. I can also personally recommend Riverbend poultry supplies, they stock most everything including natural remedies and most of all they are very helpful. I don't often endorse things but if you have the time have a browse.

http://www.tassiebirdandpoultrysupplies.com/Anitone_Liquid/p2684740_16109746.aspx

Thanks Fancy ( and sjturner79 ) for your advice here and in other posts ... for the benefit of my 3 chickens.

As you said, elsewhere, "best to keep it simple" ... I like to give them rice and oats, they rarely get cottage cheese, but do get grated cheese once a week ( barely a small handful between 3, of finely grated mature cheese ). The mackerel I will now give ( usually give sardines on 'fish' days, which are also not often ) ... and would never give flaxseed and canola together. .... Too much oiliness. With the feather oddities, and before coming on line, thought I would give them a bit of a lift with meat, some cottage cheese and a tiny bit of grated cheese, pasta and oats, and a sprinkle of scratch mix all blended and warmed, today. They love any bowls of tucker.

I buy mince that does not have preservatives in it. It is very easy to tell if it has or has not. The preservative laced mince ( usually sold by Coles / Woolies etc.),stays on the shelves and in home fridges for many days and retains its lovely 'red' colour for the entire time. The unpreservative mince, stays red for a day and then begins to turn brownish ( green as butchers call it ) ... from the centre out.

A butcher told me this some years back, so I fronted our IGA Manager a while back and asked ( he had a fresh batch in, but with marked down prices on the day old slightly turning, packets ). He assured me no preservatives ... and explained exactly what the butcher had told me. There is nothing wrong, I might add, with the 'turning colour' mince, although 3 days old of brownish, I would not use. I do buy the marked down 'turning' mince, but freeze or use it immediately. So - as a protein source, I am happy to thaw and cook up one of my little packets of frozen "Mince for Chooks" ... and mash it up finely after cooking.

However, that doesn't have the omegas that fish have in them.

..........

I will try to keep things more simple from now on - perhaps greens by themselves ( inner cauliflower leaves they adore ), cabbage, and washed brussels sprouts + Young spinach leaves from my own garden. Scratch mix once a week which has BOSS in it, so the cockatoos get any extra BOSS I bought a while back. ...... And simpler "Mum" tucker.

Had a good look at the website you gave a link to, and will most likely purchase some on line ( I don't do buying on line, but think I will have to reconsider that now, and for other things as well ). The anitone sounds excellent, and it has the correct amount to give chickens on there too.

The game bird finisher sounds great - ( and thanks to sjturner79 for that suggestion too ) perhaps offered as just something else they can choose to peck at, in a very small chook feeder bowl.

Cheers ....... and again, thank you.

 

[Anniebee]

To Satay and MyHaven

Have always believed we should learn one new thing a day. Have today learned my 'one' new thing.

Was astounded to know that Queensland gets such low temperatures in the winter. And that some of your mountains get snow ??

Would have bet the house that you'd never have those conditions. Just goes to show, how we can hold onto an idea for decades and believe it - only to
find out the opposite !!

Cheers ....

 

[Anniebee]

Ref the comments about multiple moulting.

Thanks to all who commented, a couple I think noting more moulting than usual. I do think the extremely cold weather has a lot to do with it. Why Mother Nature decided to denude chickens in the coldest parts of the year, is a big puzzle. !!

Mindy Araucana is no klutz - a bright little chook ..... and keeps herself warm in her coop. The other two

who cares .... rain, hail ( oh yippee - something to chase ) .... sleet and generally slush conditions - no worries.

None of them like the wind though, ..... or currawongs singing. Can't figure that one out at all. Currawongs are not much bigger if that, than magpies. Not here, anyway.

However, pouring rain in the Spring or summer has Mindy out soaking it up - and the two big girls hiding in their coop from the rain. Winter rain apparently is ok for Molly and Mandy

Who could ever figure chookies and their odd antics ?

Cheers ........

 

[satay]

2 millies out one to go. Pics in the morning.

 

[satay]

To Satay and MyHaven

Have always believed we should learn one new thing a day.    Have today learned my 'one' new thing. 

Was astounded to know that Queensland gets such low temperatures in the winter.  And that some of your mountains get snow ??   

Would have bet the house that you'd never have those conditions.   Just goes to show, how we can hold onto an idea for decades and believe it - only to
find out the opposite !!     

Cheers ....  

We are an odd state anni. Boiling hot in summer and in parts very cold in winter.