Poultry in Urbania

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Comment by Lisa L on August 25, 2011 at 9:37pm

The latest Organic NZ magazine mentioned recall of chick food. NRM brand. Has anybody looked into this ? is any other brand affected?

Comment by Janet Byers on August 25, 2011 at 9:13pm

When I next have a broody hen I would like to start a flock of a different type of chook, our current ones are bantam/red shaver cross. I would like to buy about a dozen fertile eggs. We live in the Hokianga and if anyone living in driving distance, probably meaning north of about Kaiwaka up to Kaitaia-Kerikeri-Paihia, is interested in selling some fertile eggs of a named breed or cross, please leave me a message. Broodyness will probably start sometime in the next six weeks or so.

Comment by Sealander on August 9, 2011 at 1:33pm

I get my chook feed from BioGrains in Ashburton - organic so you pay a little more but on the plus side they deliver (I don't have a car so lugging sacks home from the supermarket does not appeal).

Comment by Tim Searle on August 8, 2011 at 10:40pm

and the link that went with that is http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/SearchResults.aspx?searchType=Membe...

Comment by Tim Searle on August 8, 2011 at 10:39pm

Nigel - re the wheat, I buy sacks off trademe, eg here is a seller in chch I bought from, selling 40kg for $36. Would be much cheaper for you to go this route with a local seller. Plus no supermarket packaging :) You will also find laying pellets at a farm store like CRT cheaper than the supermarket if that's what you're doing at the moment.

Comment by Chris Hamilton on August 8, 2011 at 9:12pm

still don't go making a huge omelette without doing a sniff test on each egg - I reckon eggs have to be eggstremely rotten to fail the float/ no float.  It takes ages (like weeks & weeks & weeks this time of year) for eggs to go bad tho so you should be fine :)

Comment by Daniel Martin on August 8, 2011 at 8:29pm

Egg supply from our 6 girls has been a bit up and down lately, 1 egg one day then none then 5 then 2 then none and so on. Just went into a shed I havent been in for a while and found 14 eggs!! seems like all the girls were laying in there as well .... maybe they got caught short or it is a bit crowded in the chook house!!! tested all the eggs with the float/ no float test and they all passed. Hah Ha

Comment by Lisa L on August 8, 2011 at 3:38pm

Yes I just buy supermarket wheat and have a few containers soaking and sprouting,I give it to them in the afternoon and they love it.

 

Comment by Nigel Thomson on August 8, 2011 at 3:31pm

@shelly North

Where do you get the wheat for sprouting, is it the same as the stuff you buy at the supermarket, as mine are getting a bit bored of their pellets and the ocasional bugs they find/forage, wish they would eat slugs as only one of the chooks seems to eat them.

Comment by Brian Adam on August 7, 2011 at 4:39pm

Anyone lost a couple of black silkies in the Titirangi township area? Yesterday morning a pair, rooster and hen. were walking down the footpath on South Titirangi road opposite us at 518. I was alerted by the crowing at 7am. Nice looking chooks. Are they free-range?

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