Looking after Chooks in the Wet With a wet Spring over here on the East Coast and still more to come…. we face flock challenges! A clean dry coop and run = happy, healthy chooks A wet soggy run is both difficult for our chooks and us to move around in but more importantly…
Spring is in the air and with it comes warmer weather, a time when mites are most active and can harm our chooks so now is the time for a Spring clean and chicken mites treatment. Mites are one of the main pests that our backyard chooks face. A mite infestation can quick get a…
In our slightly mad modern life keeping backyard chickens can give us simple pleasures with the added benefits of home grown eggs and useful manure. For many people, the gentle clucking and scratching of chooks at home is domestic bliss. Chooks are also a great way to teach children about caring for animals, after all…
Chickens are such important critters in our lives. Whether you live in rural, urban or suburban Australia the greatest threat facing your flock are predators. It’s up to you to protect your chickens and it all starts with the physical chicken coop security. But who are the predators? Snakes, goannas, quolls, hawks and eagles are…
With Spring in the air our chooks turn broody. If you are raising backyard chickens then a broody hen is nature’s best incubator. Getting Started To get started, select 6-12 fertile eggs depending on the size of the broody hen. Eggs can be stored up to 7 days after lay, before you start incubating them,…
Add up all the world’s cats and dogs, cows and pigs and there would still be more chickens. Toss in every rat on earth and the chook still rules. More than 20 billion chickens live on our planet, three for every human alive. Keeping backyard chickens is rapidly expanding across Australia. Chooks are popping up…
With Winter approaching and our days getting cooler it is the perfect time to set up a ‘Deep Litter System’ in our coops. Cheryl Nelson from Natural Chicken Health – Super Mash shows you how to create this happy environment. Deep litter in a chicken coop develops its own biome (bacterial culture), which acts to reduce insect…