Chooks

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A while ago we got some week-old chicks from a pre-school. We have divided our pen in half and kept them segregated from our older birds so we could feed them Pullet Grower mix without them being molested by the adults. However this morning I went into their area and...

Our White Leghorn / New Hampshire Cross chook known as Polly has finally started laying. Which has taken a month or so longer than the Rhode Island / New Hampshire crosses took to begin laying. She laid her first egg last Friday (15/Aug/08) and the 2nd one came today....

We have been slowly refining our Chook Pen and Coop. The first thing we found is the girls didn't like how exposed the nesting boxes felt and weren't using them. So we stapled a privacy curtain to front and put small cutouts in them to allow them to enter. They now...

On Tuesday (5 Aug 08) we had our first double yoked egg layed. It was 89 grams. The average egg we get at the moment from our young chooks is about 54-59 grams. It tasted really nice:

OK this will be of virtually no interest to the world community. I put it here simply for posterity and to answer the "When did chicken X start laying?" question. I think we now have two chooks laying. The new egg is on the right. My lovely wife found an egg in the...

Our chickens are about 26weeks old but we have just gotten some smaller ones. If it wasn't for the wire between the older chickens and the chicks I'm fairly sure they would peck the babies to death. The chicks are oblivious to the danger they are in. The older chooks...

OK so this morning I had a more thorough look for eggs and lo and behold in the back of the coop, in the most private corner are two eggs We weighed them and the first eggs are 46 + 48 grams. We haven't identified which of the 3 girls are the actual layers yet And...

So today we bought 30kg of Layer Pellets from Furneys. I'm not sure if it's too early because you are supposed to feed them "Pullet Grower" pellets until they start to lay, then switch to Layer Pellets. However I'm reasoning that they shouldn't be too far away from...

We had a bit of an episode today. Lisa (my wife) decided she was going to mow the lawn and as she went past the chicken coop they (3 chooks) freaked out and flew over the 6' high fence into our and the neighbours backyards. Lisa had to climb the fence and grab one...

Recently we became the proud owners of 4 chooks. This morning my Wife calls out and says that one of them was outside of the pen. I presume she got out by jumping onto the coop and then over the 1.8m high wire fence. Looks like I'm going to have to do some wing...