A different type of Gold Stacking :)

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  1. malachii

    malachii Well-Known Member

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    These all hatched yesterday and this morning - much to the kid's delight!

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    A different type of gold stacking :) Just over 30 all together.

    Do I keep the ones that seem to have a bit of "toning" on them - or does that just add character? :D

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    House Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    Buzz the green and yellow one in the second pic
     
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    LOL...that's the only one not going cheep... I mean cheap!

    I'm not sure all those eggs came from the same nest :)
     
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    They look tasty .... i mean cute .
     
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    Are you accusing my hens of playing around on the rooster :eek:

    Well - maybe a little :) We swaped eggs with friends of our so we got a bit of a mixture.

    The bloody budgie wont leave them alone - thinks they're great playmates although we have to take him out of there pretty quick because he thinks their toes are worms :rolleyes:

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    Aww so cute! Love chooks, I have 40!
    Do you know what breeds they are?
    If they are any Australorps they are easy to sex. You can tell boys from girls at 3 weeks.
     
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    They are all roosters!

    Best of luck :D

    Looks like your place with be child central with your kids bringing their friends around over the next few days.

    Edit - that is a cool looking stripey one in the top corner of the second photo
     
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    malachii Well-Known Member

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    There are a selection of breeds in there - Frizzles, Australorps, Rhode Island Red, Spangled Hamburgs and a couple of others - oh and a selection of "mongrels" :)

    Kids and all the neighbours kids are coming from far and wide to see them :) All good fun.

    We actually don't care if they're all roosters - we actually breed them to work in the vegie garden - we have a permaculture patch where the chooks rotate onto a bed for 2 weeks to clean it up and dig it over so we can replant our next crop of vegies. Saves me weeding and digging! Need a few chooks to keep up with all the digging!


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    Great. We are preparing to do the same thing. Question though. How many chickens do you need vs how big an area for the rotation?
     
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    My little one is asking if these are for sale !
     
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    Digging!!!

    I didn't think you permies still did that!

    I thought it was all no-dig, waist-high gardening nowadays!

    They sure are cute, reminds me of the days I used to keep pythons...
     
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    Can you keep pythons legally in aust?
     
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    No idea, not kept any reptiles since I left the UK. No need to in Australia, I have geckos in the house anyway :)
     
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    Yea I once squished a gecko and critically hurt it by accident, tried to put the litter bugger out of its misery, but they are so squishy and flexible that no matter what I done it wouldn't die. Robust little critters. Not quite sure why im mentioning this. Must be one of those confession things. aahhhh my chest feels a lil lighter already.
     
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    Nice little chickens. Yep you can keep pythons i have 2 of them, plus some lizards, need a permit for more than 1 of course. My pythons would certainly love to curl up with some of them chickens:p
     
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    #15 Hussman
    If all else fails.....grab a hammer :D
     
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    so you separate the cocks from the no-cocks? ;-)
     
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    I'm having a little trouble fitting them in the capsules.

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    We rotate them around 2 big circles of 6 smaller circles each - covers about 250 m2 - enough to keep us pretty self sufficient (2 adults and 5 kids plus the neighbours :) ). We currently run about 15 chooks which is normally enough - but the chooks we've got at the moment seem to be lazy buggers - hence the new breeding program :)

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