Illawarra Chickens
It can be hard to find chickens for sale locally, especially if you’re after a particular breed. Here is a big list of all the places I found when I was looking:
- Illawarra Mercury Classifieds (look under pets, horses and livestock, and for sale categories)
- Other local newspaper classifieds (Kiama Independent, Lake Times, etc)
- The Trading Post
- The Land
- Check notice boards or ask staff at pet shops and animal supply stores (e.g. PetStock Albion Park Rail, Poplar Pet Food and Produce, Jamberoo Country Store, etc) – use the Yellow Pages to find local shops.
- Check notice boards at shopping centers
- Dapto Poultry Club – watch their web site for upcoming sale days.
- Backyard Poultry – Classifieds – search for “Illawarra”, “Wollongong”, “Dapto”, etc or for particular breed names. I’ve dealt with a seller named “Gez” from Dapto on there, and he was great.
- Backyard Poultry – NSW Breeders List
- ChookNet – lots of forums for sale/swap/giveaway of poultry.
- Wollongong Bantams
- Brian Larkins Poultry, 20 Nattai St, Tahmoor (ph 4681 9722). Brian also visits Illawarra businesses regularly – for example he takes orders in advance and delivers to Jamberoo Country Store once every three months or so.
- Debbie and Jeff from Kembla Grange (ph 4272 1071) – silkies only.
- FarmStock – this is Australia-wide, so you’ll need to search a bit to find something nearby.
- Ask around! If you know someone with chooks, ask where they got them. Or just ask your friends and workmates if they know anyone with chooks, then see if they can find out where they got them.
When searching via Google or within the classifieds sites, search for terms like “pullets”, “hens”, and the particular breed you’re after (if you know) such as “australorp”, “silky”, “leghorn”, etc. Also try geographical terms like “Illawarra”, “Shoalhaven”, “Wollongong”, etc to narrow down the search.
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Hi. Another site for this list is http://www.chooktrader.com.au. It has a good selection of poultry classifieds and is easy to search by location or breed.
@Jo: Thanks for the link! It’s a useful site, but I don’t find it easy to search by location on it. I can only go down to state level, and then have to check every ad to see if it’s anywhere near me. It’d be a huge help to be able to search down to the region (e.g. Illawarra, Shoalhaven, etc). Searching by town name is no help, since there are too many towns around here to check for them all.
Hi Darren. There is an advanced search function where you can do a “proximity search by postcode”. The advanced search is found under the “buy” tab and to the left at the bottom of the categories list. This way, you can narrow down the search to within as specified distance to your location.
@Jo: Ah! I hadn’t seen that, thanks for pointing it out. That makes the site more useful than most others – well done.
Barter and Sons Farm & Hatchery. Est. 1933 visit us open 7 days in Luddenham. maybe an hour from wollongong. or we deliver to you. Door to door. Visit our website http://www.barterandsons.com.au or call 02 477 33 222. Pure Australorps and Rhode Island Reds day old to approx 18 weeks. and Barter crossbred hens point of lay choice of brown, black or white Hen. coops, fertile eggs, meat chicks and more. All day olds sexed and vaccinated. Roosters avail. Looking forward to providing quality chickens to the whole south coast down to melb. Debbie
@Debbie: Thanks for the info!
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