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

[satay]

Lmao

 

[Rachel96]

Ducky - I'm looking forwards to reading the article! My 'local' library gets them in so I go there to read the magazine. I'm trying to get my sister interested in it, but she has the strange idea that it's all about chickens... and she doesn't like chickens because their beaks are too pointy... she has lots of ducks.

Davidald - I made much the same comment when I first joined this thread, too! Only, being a South Australian as I am, I asked whether the 'funny little island' was Kangaroo Island...

Ducky said that it was done like that simply because "Victoria, the state above it, the sunny one, the state with the rock, the remote state, the state to the South, the place where the pollies meet and that funny little island" simply wouldn't fit in the thread title.

 

[duckyfromoz]

I LIKE "that funny little island", and I live in Tassie! It's a beautiful place,sort of quirky,sort of insular,but full of beautiful places and friendly people. I think that we should leave that funny little island exactly as it is!

oh the controversy !!!!!!!!

I can change this thread tittle to Pumpkin Pie if you all want- does it really matter what it is called- Its just a dot in cyber space where people living in closer proximity than to others on this earth can come together occasionally and share thoughts and experiences and images.

Welcome to the newcomers to the thread...welcome to BYC as well. There is just so much to learn on these pages- and so many members .....

 

[Rachel96]

Well, I have an English father and a Victorian mother... So I guess I'm not really South Australian at all...

Anyway, I have some exciting news. Just to give some backstory, I started my own flock a couple of months ago (seperate from my father's... which means I had to build the enclosure and I have to pay for the food... but it also means that I get the egg money, and that I can choose which breeds to keep). I got some chicks, and some supposedly Point of Lay birds. Unsurprisngly, they weren't actually POL. I had resigned myself to not getting any eggs until spring, when I found two, several weeks ago.

Today, I found two Araucana eggs in the nesting box! I'd almost given up on them! One is a nice mint green and one is more turquoise. The picture quality isn't very good... they're much brighter than this.

I've taken them with some other eggs from our... uhm... egg-fridge (yes, we have an entire [non-functioning, outdoor] fridge dedicated entirely to eggs. We sell fortnightly at community markets so this is where they're kept in the mean time.). I've labelled the eggs, but just in case you can't read my writing or my photography skills are too apalling, they are, clockwise from top left; Araucana, Araucana, ISA Brown, Indian Runner, ISA Brown cross white Leghorn, white Leghorn, Ancona.

 

[satay]

You have a lovely collection of coloured eggs there Rachel. I love my araucanas too.

 

[Rachel96]

Thanks!

The picture doesn't really do it justice, though. The ISA/Leghorn cross egg is a nice cream colour but looks white in the picture, and the two Araucana eggs were much brighter. The one to the left was also a little bluer. I got another today which was nice light blue - hardly green at all! I'm very excited about all this.

Once some of my other breeds have started laying I'll have to take another picture. I have some Sizzles who should start laying in a month or two (no idea what their eggs will look like!) and my sister has some Khaki Campbells (ducks) which aren't laying at the moment, but I'm looking forwards to having those eggs in the picture! I also didn't put the Leghorn bantam eggs in, and I'm getting lots of those at the moment.

Although I'm not allowed to buy/hatch any chicks at the moment (no more chicks until September - my parents are sick of having babies in the house, so my youngest at the moment are 10 weeks), I've already requested some MaransX (crossed with Australorp, Isa Brown, and mixed brown-egg-laying hens) eggs from a friend to hatch in spring. So hopefully this time next year I'll have dark brown eggs, too!

from Rachel.

 

[qldchook]

Hi from Cairns, anyone else from QLD? 16 chooks, all different breeds.

 

[qldchook]

YAY heather, another QLDer, Im Cairns

 

[Gold Coaster]

Hi from Cairns, anyone else from QLD? 16 chooks, all different breeds.

Hello Qldchook,

Welcome! I'm from the Gold Coast.

I have six chooks myself. Just recently adopted two Leghorns from the Animal Welfare League and I'm on chicken babysitting duty while they are settling in.

Cheers,
Gold Coaster

 

[The Big Dog]

Hi Guys......Recently moved down from Innisfail, was supposed to be a "Grey Nomad" but everywhere we go the Mrs sees a house "She must have". Originally from WA.

Cheers........The Dog