I was wondering how do you butcher a chicken? is it easy for someone who has never butchered anything before to do?
We have lots of sparrows eating our chooks' pellets. The feeder was out under the henhouse, but seeing hundreds of passerines developing I moved the feeder inside the house. NOW the little sparrows are going inside the house! I first thought of hangi
Read more…We've decided we're going to dispatch our ducks and eat them, I was just wondering what method most people use to dispatch their hens/ducks humanely?
I have 3 light sussex only i is laying and now has stopped for the 5th day, she looked sick 2 days ago and yesterday was wanting to lay as she was in the shed nesting. Her comb is red today as is scratching and eating any suggestions should i go to a
Read more…Everyone keeps asking about where they can get locally produced organic layer mash in Auckland, therefore I have made it my personal mission to source some. I am excited to say I been successful. The feed is specially formulated by Frenz eggs for the
Read more…Can anyone help ?I had 3 chickens 1 was a roster so replaced it with 2 hens.1 of my original hens became the MATRON.Then to my horror just when the order was back 1 new hen died.So now the other new hen is getting told off all the time and is on the
Read more…I've just got my 3 new girls and wondered how long to keep them in the coop until it would be safe to let them out and have them come back to roost of their own accord. I have a big backyard for them to explore but it is not completely fenced and of
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What's everyone's chooks' laying rates like this week, and how has it been over autumn leading into winter?
HELP! I'm off to Rarotonga for 6 days from 28/5/10 (yay!) I need someone with a secure backyard and no dogs who can mind my 2 chooks for me (I will feed them). They need to be kept separate from other chooks (both for potential attacking issues and b
Read more…We have a 20 week Barnvelder rooster who is free to a good home. He was hand-reared as his mum died when he was a week old, so he is ridiculously friendly and happy to have cuddles with kids. We are unable to keep a rooster, so sadly have to give him
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I'm about to take the plunge and build myself a chicken coop (and then put some chickens in it, of course). I'm in suburbia, and want the coop to be more of a chicken tractor with and attached run, so I can shift the birds around and ev
Hi, my young girls have just starting laying. The first ones were laying about 10am and then making noises about it. Now one more has started laying but at 5am and making a racket, and the rest have all decided to get in on the early morning laying a
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Hi all,
Our three little Hamburgs are moulting. Feathers all over the place. It's their first time I assume as we got them as young chicks last Oct. They've gone off the lay in the last 2 weeks, or at least two of them are, as we get only 5 eggs a week now.
Read more…Two days ago we had a local dog enter our property and kill our four chickens. I'm devastated and angry.
Animal Control have been very helpful but because the dog was not witnessed killing them we have no recourse which is incredibly frustrating.
I sa
Hey everyone,
A recent post has prompted me to thinking I might be able to solve a weed problem at our place by putting the chooks on them! My bantam girls are currently in a run on an old vege plot, digging up weeds and making decent compost - more than earning
Read more…So, it's me again, probably the most novice-y novice around these parts!!! Our girls are growing everyday; they look big, strong and healthy. SO exciting! They've moved outside permanently now, although they're still in a make-shift wire enclosure wi
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