Mortiskya
Chirping
- Jun 14, 2024
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Hi everyone, new chicken owner here from South East Queensland. We just got six young chicks from a local breeder, that I am soon to post on the breed/sex forum as we are not truly confident on breeds.
We bought our home a year ago (built 1958 so needing lots of work and Reno's) and immediately set up a gardening area as my partner and I both love organic gardening. It seems the idea of homesteading and self sufficiency has taken us by storm as we already want to get acreage and expand everything but these things take time unfortunately.
We also have two lovely dogs, Mabel (2yr Golden English Cocker Spaniel) and Olive (1yr Irish Red Setter) they seem interested in the chicks currently but also kind of scared of them hahaha, and we hope to train them to be very protective of the hens.
Our last pet is two hives of native stingless bees (Tetragonula hockingsi) that we rescued from a water meter. We don't harvest honey from them, at least not yet but we love having them around in the garden.
The gardening area is fenced off (roughly 200m2 roughly) as our two girls would run literal tracks into the dirt chasing each other around the garden beds. The back corner is fairly protected and doesn't get too much sun past mid day so this is where I'm building the run to save valuable growing space with a greenhouse to come. Thankfully with the fence I built we should be able to free range the birds quite a bit and once all our fruit trees grow up they will have plenty of protection and shade while free ranging and eating of the very annoying weeds.
(PS we are super unhappy with the coop kit we bought, I have already modified it quite a bit into a deep litter, much more spacious internal area for them to roost and plan on building one from the ground up in about a year or so. The run isn't quite finished yet but we are close)
I think that about covers everything, Thank you for allowing us to join your community and I look forward to learning heaps from everyone.
We bought our home a year ago (built 1958 so needing lots of work and Reno's) and immediately set up a gardening area as my partner and I both love organic gardening. It seems the idea of homesteading and self sufficiency has taken us by storm as we already want to get acreage and expand everything but these things take time unfortunately.
We also have two lovely dogs, Mabel (2yr Golden English Cocker Spaniel) and Olive (1yr Irish Red Setter) they seem interested in the chicks currently but also kind of scared of them hahaha, and we hope to train them to be very protective of the hens.
Our last pet is two hives of native stingless bees (Tetragonula hockingsi) that we rescued from a water meter. We don't harvest honey from them, at least not yet but we love having them around in the garden.
The gardening area is fenced off (roughly 200m2 roughly) as our two girls would run literal tracks into the dirt chasing each other around the garden beds. The back corner is fairly protected and doesn't get too much sun past mid day so this is where I'm building the run to save valuable growing space with a greenhouse to come. Thankfully with the fence I built we should be able to free range the birds quite a bit and once all our fruit trees grow up they will have plenty of protection and shade while free ranging and eating of the very annoying weeds.
(PS we are super unhappy with the coop kit we bought, I have already modified it quite a bit into a deep litter, much more spacious internal area for them to roost and plan on building one from the ground up in about a year or so. The run isn't quite finished yet but we are close)
I think that about covers everything, Thank you for allowing us to join your community and I look forward to learning heaps from everyone.
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