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Hovabator Incubator Fridgemate Hack

November 16, 2013 by Darren

A cheap incubator can be turned into something much more accurate and reliable with a simple $50 digital temperature controller.

Posted in: Frugality, Keeping Animals Tagged: australorp, backyard chickens, broody chickens, chickens, chicks, eggs, freezer, fridge, fridgemate, hack, home brew, Hovabator, incubator, temperature controller, thermostat

Willie Wagtail Chicks

January 11, 2012 by Darren

A new generation of pest-eaters has arrived, with a nest of willie wagtails in one of our trees.

Posted in: Growing Food, Nature, Permaculture Tagged: Australia, birds, chicks, compost, composting, pests

Missing Hen Returns With Chicks

February 21, 2011 by Darren

Our missing hen returns with a pleasant surprise for us – four gorgeous little chicks!

Posted in: Keeping Animals Tagged: backyard chickens, barnevelder, brahma, broody chickens, chicks, chooks, eggs, ISA brown, rooster

An Assortment of Duck and Chicken Eggs

January 12, 2011 by Darren

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.

Posted in: Keeping Animals Tagged: barnevelder, brahma, chickens, chicks, ducks, eggs, ISA brown, pullets

An Alternative Broody Hen Solution

October 18, 2010 by Darren

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.

Posted in: Keeping Animals Tagged: broody chickens, broody hens, chicks, chooks, eggs, fertile eggs, pullets, rooster

Processing Chickens

August 8, 2010 by Darren

That’s the euphemism for those that don’t like to say “slaughtering and butchering chickens”! I processed the last two roosters from our first batch of chicks today. We’re keeping the one female from the group to join our layer flock. This photo is from the start of June – I just realised I hadn’t taken … [Read more…]

Posted in: Keeping Animals, Preparing Food Tagged: butchering, chickens, chicks, processing chickens, rooster, slaughtering

Chicks Taken By Predator!

August 7, 2010 by Darren

Some sad news, I’m afraid – two of the three chicks that Girlie hatched have disappeared. We’d left Girlie and the chicks in the main chicken run, since they had a safe indoor area that the rooster can’t get into (the entrance is just small enough that he can’t/won’t go in). Things had been going … [Read more…]

Posted in: Keeping Animals Tagged: backyard chickens, brahma, broody chickens, chicks, chooks

Organic Fruit Fly Control and Hatching Chicks

August 1, 2010 by Darren

We had a fantastic presentation today at the Jamberoo Community Growers meeting, by the people from Organic Crop Protectants. A big part of the talk was on organic fruit fly control, using their “eco-naturalure” male fruit fly trap and attractant/insecticide products. It looks like a great system to keep these frustrating pests down. You simply … [Read more…]

Posted in: Growing Food, Illawarra Organisations, Keeping Animals Tagged: chicken tractor, chickens, chicks, chooks, fruit fly, incubator, Jamberoo Community Growers, pests

Playing With Their Food

March 23, 2010 by Darren

I was telling some friends at work about our new chicks, and when I mentioned that we were growing them out for meat they asked if our girls – aged 4, 6 and 8 – knew. To be honest, we’ve been upfront with them since before the chicks hatched. We’ve been clear all along that … [Read more…]

Posted in: Keeping Animals Tagged: backyard chickens, brahma, chickens, chicks, children, free range eggs, ISA brown, meat chickens, rooster

Hatching Chicks

March 15, 2010 by Darren

This story has been a bit of a saga. Remember back when I got Molly the leghorn to go broody and slipped some eggs under her? Well, none hatched. I think it was a combination of inexperienced first-time mother and low fertility rate of eggs. She was sitting on 6 eggs: three exploded in the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Keeping Animals Tagged: backyard poultry, barnevelder, brahma, broody chickens, chickens, chicks, eggs, faverolles, incubator, ISA brown, leghorn, rooster

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