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New Australorp Rooster

August 18, 2012 by Darren

Meet the new “cock o’ the walk”, Big Oz!

Posted in: Keeping Animals Tagged: australorp, backyard poultry, chooks, eggs, homestead, jamberoo, meat, rooster

Rooster Processing Day

August 5, 2012 by Darren

I processed four surplus roosters last weekend. Having an organised workflow makes the whole thing a lot faster and easier! There are no graphic photos in this post.

Posted in: Frugality, Keeping Animals, Preparing Food Tagged: australorp, birds, butcher, butchering, chickens, compost, DIY, dog, freezer, offal, processing chickens, rooster

Roadside Finds – Chicken Tractor

July 4, 2012 by Darren

A friend will help you move. A real friend will help you recover discarded treasures from the side of the road!

Posted in: Frugality, Keeping Animals Tagged: backyard chickens, chicken tractor, FreeCycle, jamberoo, rooster

Processing Roosters

February 28, 2011 by Darren

Yesterday I showed a friend how to kill, pluck and clean a chicken.

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

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

DIY Chicken Processing Station

February 20, 2011 by Darren

A cheap and simple home-made chicken processing station. It also doubles as a very handy outdoor sink for washing vegetables, plant pots and tools.

Posted in: Frugality, Growing Food, Household, Keeping Animals, Preparing Food Tagged: australorp, butcher, butchering, chickens, recycling, rooster, vegetable garden

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

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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