A different type of Gold Stacking :)

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malachii

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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

malachii
 
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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 :)
 
Clawhammer said:
I'm not sure all those eggs came from the same nest :)
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Are you accusing my hens of playing around on the rooster :o

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:

malachii
 
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.
 
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
 
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!


malachii
 
malachii said:
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!


malachii
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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?
 
boston said:
malachii said:
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!


malachii
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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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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...
 
No idea, not kept any reptiles since I left the UK. No need to in Australia, I have geckos in the house anyway :)
 
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.
 
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
 
Australian coin said:
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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so you separate the cocks from the no-cocks? ;-)
 
boston said:
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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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 :)

malachii
 
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