From Perth, Western Australia

[cathscluckers]

Hi, I've been keeping chickens for about three years. Just got a new flock yesterday though, 12 ISA Browns and one white Leghorn Rooster.

 

[babyfoot]

Hi

I am new to chooks too, about three years also. I live north of Perth City, approx 90 kms. Nice overcast day isn't it? The lull before summer arrives like a furnace. I have a mixed bunch of everyhting, maybe a couple of pure breeds but I am not sure, love them all anyway

 

[cathscluckers]

Hi, Thanks for responding! We live about 30kms north of Perth on just over 3 acres and yes, I am enjoying the cooler days before the stinking hot summer hits! I had a look at your photos - your 'feathered family' are glorious. Your roosters are especially beautiful! We've had chooks for around 3 years, got them from my uncle, think they were ex battery hens and were quite old, but I managed to tame them quite a bit and enjoyed their various personalities very much! They have slowly died and unfortunately, a fox managed to climb over my 8foot fence and kill the remaining five of them - devastating! So we spent last week totalling enclosing the top of my 30 square metre chook yard and I now have 12 pullets ranging from 10weeks to 14 weeks, and a beautiful white leghorn rooster. Haven't had them this young before, but am really enjoying them. I work from home, so I pop down every hour or so to check on them. Don't want to let them free-range just yet.

Anyway, am pleased to have found someone else on this site from Perth - seems to be mainly American chook-lovers!

 

[babyfoot]

Bens Hens is also in Perth somewhere

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ns-the-highs-the-lows-and-pics-of-our-journey.

There's also another thread purely for Australia but to be honest I haven't been in it much

.https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/598568/australia-six-states-and-that-funny-little-island

Are you around the Swan Valley area then or Beechboro area, I am way up near Guilderton

 

[TheWeaver]

Greetings from Balingup, WA. I keep a few breeds, easter eggers, naked necks and silkies. They're a real joy. Can't imagine how hot it's going to get in Perth soon, the weather has been so whacky this year!

 

[babyfoot]

Yeah, a real hot start straight into summer with a big bang and then it gets cool again. My veggie garden doesn't know what's hit it. At least my chooks are having a cool time of it. Had the inside fan on for them a week or so ago and now it's not needed

 

[TheWeaver]

Yeah last week I was suddenly having to spray the coops down and had to dip a few in the baby pool. They didn't know what hit them, the young pullets were having a real awful time with the heat and watermelon is SO expensive right now.