While up in Perth I purchased two 11 week old black Auracana pullets, two bantam Indian Game roosters (Blue and Jubilee), two POL Indian Game hens (Blue and Jubilee) and a 11 week old trio of dark Indian Game. The Auracana are for the egg layers pen (they lay a light blue-green egg), and the […]
We also have a few Pekin Bantams that I plan to breed, some to sell as day old chicks or fertile eggs. Like the silkies, Pekins are very cute and make excellent adoptive mothers. As usual though, we have too many roosters (2) and cockerels(2) as we don’t have enough hens for them all. At […]
Its a little frustrating having a pen full of chickens and still having to buy shop eggs! Although Corn Chip the gold laved wyandotte started laying again a couple of weeks ago and it looks like Coal the Ancona hen has also started laying, yesterday we picked up three 17 week old Isa Brown pullets […]
Like many other things over the hot dry summer that we have just had, this blog has been sadly neglected. Now that winter is hopefully on its way I do plan on updating this blog more frequently, as well as going back in time and adding some posts and photographs. Lucky for me I do […]
After alot of research, I have settled on Indian Game bantams for breeding our table chickens, they lay quite well (or at least a lot more than their large IG or Cornish do) and improve the meat of any other breed they are crossed with. The cockerels mature early and can be processed at 5 […]
The reality of life can sometimes be a little overwhelming and occasionallys its nice to just forget the things that make life complicated and have a little fun, especially if it will make the kids laugh. I guess one of the side effects of G’s illness is that we do appreciate the little things in […]