You get a lot of variations in the size, shape and colour of eggs between different breeds of chickens and ducks. There’s a fair bit of natural variation within a breed, and even with eggs from the same bird. Here’s a lineup of some recent eggs we’ve collected.

A little more unusual than chickens and ducks, geese can provide several useful functions in the garden if you have the space.

Photos and a description of a very cleverly designed chicken coop.

A must-see video of BBC’s Ethical Man visiting a pig farm in Las Vegas, where the pigs are raised on restaurant leftovers and then fed back to the restaurant patrons.

Some ideas for food, medicinal and other useful plants you can place in and around your chicken run for healthy, happy chickens.

You can get a very good estimate of a pig’s weight by running a few simple measurements through a mathematical formula. Here’s how to do it.

The New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) has a lot of really good pig keeping information available for free. Here’s my collection of links to their resources.

If you’ve got a broody hen, rather than trying to “break her” why not let her raise a clutch of eggs? It requires almost no effort on your part, and is a lot of fun.

There was a little bit of discussion about feeding scraps to pigs on my original entry about our pig project. There are quite strict laws around the feeding of scraps and waste to pigs in Australia (and many other countries), and you really need to make sure you’re doing the right thing.

The NSW Department of [...]

New Scientist magazine has just published an article about the sustainability of kangaroo meat for human consumption. If you’re interested read it now, as I think free access to the full article is removed at some period after publication.

The article looks at issues like methane production, water use, feed conversion efficiency, orphaned joeys, humane harvesting, [...]