I don'n know. After speaking to a few experts, I stopped worrying about eating GMO so I don't share your fears (or I have different fears about GMO) and have never bothered to enquire.
I'm sure there's plenty of info available for anyone interested.
I am now on the central Queensland coast. All the yards are about 3/4 of an acre. Mine is just over that. Anything that is available is only a few minutes away- only there's not much available.How far? Taking highways sounds quite far.
Do you need to make such a trip for all your chicken supplies?
Sometimes I feel so lucky to have everything so near here where i live. Most things are just 1 - 1.5 km away.
Only the factory for the affordable organic feed is 15 km. It’s not meant for small BYC keepers and you have to buy 5 bags (100 kg). Therefore it needs a little planning. But a neighbour who buys the feed there can combine it with her work and always brings 1 or 2 bags for me if I ask her. Plenty of choice to buy hatching eggs too within 15 km.
Unfortunately having everything close also means I have a very small garden compared to most BYC keepers. Only about ⅛ of an acre. 400 m2 of my own + 200m2 municipality wilderness. For Dutch standards this is a luxery. Our first house (rental) had s garden under 50m2 which is common in any town in the Netherlands.
which means travelling an hour into our biggest centre for pretty much everything. Some people do it daily for work. Where something is several hours away [ like a chicken buy] people will agree on a midway point & meet there, thus halving the distance travelled. I have friends house sitting 2 hours away. They travel home each weekend. My drive up here was 9 hours- with 3 cats & 8 chickens! Outside of our big cities many Australians travel quite big distances as a matter of course. We have several who travel a couple of hours to attend church. Distances round here are so vast there are warning signs about fuel, rest stops, accident zones. I remember when I was in Europe everything seemed so tiny & many Europeans were shocked @ the distances we were prepared to travel in a day.
And that drive was entirely within one state, Queensland. WA has some even longer drives between towns. Think of Margaret River to Broome! Quite a road trip.
Yes! We did Cairns to Toowoomba in one hit one year outrunning the monsoon rains.
I can open the side door and make a wide ramp for it, with sides that keep chicks from jumping off. I can also close off the other entrances to the coop so they can't get 'under' Mary once she's gone up. I have plenty of logs around the place and will use one or two the same way you have so the babies can rest half way up.
Yep, that's another really long drive!
I have to admit, I didn't even blink @ 40 minutes. That's a commute in Sydney.
Exactly! You can see why I didn't give a second thought! I just got in the car, looked at the petrol gauge, and off I went!I have to admit, I didn't even blink @ 40 minutes. That's a commute in Sydney.
