Category Archives: Chickens

  The girls (Misty, Speckles and Ruby) checking things out after a clean-up. Note the food selection including mashed potato and pumpkin. Poor Lily is gone – RIP.

Actually only one of the chooks – Lilly. That’s Lilly looking at the camera, she is a very gentle docile Pekin but a bit “slow”, at times she bordering on NQR.

Beautiful day so decided to rake out the hay from the main chook run and the adjoining annex area and replenish with cleaner hay that comes of the floors of the two storage sheds down at the horse agistment. We … Continue reading →

Exciting day for us backyard chook lovers, our two Pekins decided to lay their first eggs – together! Got home from tending the horses and doing a bit of shopping and as usual straight down to the chook run to … Continue reading →

One of the greatest threats to the health of poultry is mites – bird mites. If birds are allowed to enter and roam the chook run area it’s likely you will end with with a mite infestation, this is particularly … Continue reading →

When we came home with the new Pekins (Speckles and Lilly) early in May I partitioned off one end of the main chook run to separate them from the older resident’s –  Misty and Ruby (Wyandotte’s). This gives them their … Continue reading →

They are very friendly, if I sit down to take a break from what I am doing they will look to hop on my lap. It’s best to have the tea towel handy in case they poop. Lilly top and … Continue reading →