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| Thread ID: 115148 | 2011-01-04 21:07:00 | Chooks | FoxyMX (5) | PC World Chat |
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| 1167040 | 2011-01-04 21:07:00 | A number of people here appear to keep chooks so I am interested in finding out how you look after them . For example do they wander around your garden or are they kept in their own pen? If they have the run of the garden how much land do they need to wander around? And how much of a mess do they make? :stare: I've always wanted to keep chooks but apart from a friend on a lifestyle block everyone I know who has had them never kept them for very long . |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 1167041 | 2011-01-04 21:10:00 | I've always wanted to keep chooks but apart from a friend on a lifestyle block everyone I know who has had them never kept them for very long. thats because after a while their become dinner:D |
plod (107) | ||
| 1167042 | 2011-01-04 21:12:00 | Yeah, I guess I asked for that one. :lol: :lol: | FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 1167043 | 2011-01-04 21:13:00 | That's the only place for a chook. The oven or frypan. :) | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1167044 | 2011-01-04 21:21:00 | I have had them for years got 5 at the mo Obama, Light, Dark, Miles and Goldie brought them up from eggs Miles was Mum. They all have different personalities and seem to keep them selves busy. Down side is cleaning the chook house They dont live long and its sad when they die They stop laying when old and just eat They will totally destroy a vege garden They dont lay much in the winter just eat Mine keep getting scaly leg and trying to convince a chicken to dips its leg in some oil for its own good isnt that easy. Upside more eggs than you can eat in summer Chicken **** for the garden Just watching them is fun especially the pecking order which does change. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1167045 | 2011-01-04 21:50:00 | When I was a kid we lived on a farm and had chooks. We had a fowl house with a run in it and a sheltered area for the chooks to roost at night. We use to let them out to roam in the paddock that the fowl house was in and they use to come back in and roost by them selves at night time, so all we had to do was go out and shut the gate. Yes they become very tame and are like pets and it is sad when one dies or you kill one for food. We use to have the odd problem with stoats getting into the fowl house at night time a killing some of the chooks. We use to feed them wheat and something we called mash which was a dry ingredient like porridge which you mixed with water. We also use to give them ground seashells for harder egg shells. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1167046 | 2011-01-04 22:16:00 | And how much of a mess do they make? :stare: Not much ... they're finger lickin' good ... :D |
SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1167047 | 2011-01-04 22:17:00 | We had some. Cleaning the chook house was easy, rake it out and add it to the compost. All that useful chookmanure. We let them out, they tasted everything around the section, then settled on chickweed and scratching in the compost. So our garden was fine. mostly the scratching is the problem, not so much the eating. Wouldn't say it's really economical, you feed them scraps but for proper nutrients they need a bit of chook food too. But they do become pets....... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1167048 | 2011-01-04 23:14:00 | Just dispatched the 2 roosters today, we raised 4 eggs and had 2 of each. Those 2 along with the older 2 wander the garden at will, the wings have been clipped so they can't fly. Cheapest chook food is Pak and save stuff $10 for 10Kg. Easy to scrape the house out once a week but if penning them they should have 1sqM each so 10 chooks 10 sq Meters. We have Bantams as they do a lot less damage than shavers. Shavers will destroy everything in their path but give the most eggs and shavers are like houdini they will always find a way to escape |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1167049 | 2011-01-04 23:16:00 | One other thing they make dust bowls everywhere some are surprisingly deep. | prefect (6291) | ||
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