Time: March 31, 2013 from 1pm to 2:30pm
Location: Mt Eden Village
Street: will be confirmed
City/Town: Auckland
Website or Map: http://www.mountedenvillagepe…
Event Type: chickens, animals, local, food
Organized By: Judith Holtebrinck
Latest Activity: Dec 5, 2012
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Please note that we have a limited number for each workshop. Please contact Judith to confirm your booking: judith@mountedenvillagepeople.co.nz
Tutor: Gail Batten
Contribution ; $20.00
Keeping chickens in the city, with Gail Batten
This is a site visit at Gail’s garden where she will tell us what you need to get started, what they should eat and how to raise your chickens from a fertile egg. You will learn the guidelines of keeping chickens in the city, tips on housing them and other titbits of information.
This workshop covers:
* Benefits of having chickens
* Housing requirements and rules
* Feeding
* Hatching and rearing
* Health and wellbeing
* All about eggs
* Miscellaneous and troubleshooting
* Benefits of different breeds
* How to adopted a chicken
About Gail Batten:
When Gail came back from a woofing (working on organic farms) holiday a year ago, she was given some fertilised eggs as a farewell present. Back in Auckland she managed to borrow a hen from a friend of hers to sit on the eggs. A few weeks later she had baby chicks, a chook house and later lots of eggs for breakfast. In December last year she obtained more fertilised eggs and now the chook house is full of life, eggs and entertainment.
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