tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027191706980748713.post8525922006484401740..comments2023-09-29T18:37:14.377+10:00Comments on Eight Acres: Getting stared with chickens - summing upUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027191706980748713.post-27886286822976130292013-07-31T20:40:19.289+10:002013-07-31T20:40:19.289+10:00My advice is to go for it!!! Chickens are wonderfu...My advice is to go for it!!! Chickens are wonderful, easy pets that give back!! <br />To have eggs all year around make sure you have a hen that matures (turns 6 months old & begins to lay) in May or June. The first year they come to maturity they must lay & so you will get your winter eggs whilst the old girls get lazy about giving them :)<br />Blessings<br />Renata:)Renatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13546331512433403550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027191706980748713.post-25602043318203694002013-07-31T05:16:03.244+10:002013-07-31T05:16:03.244+10:00This was a great series. Thank you for posting at ...This was a great series. Thank you for posting at the HomeAcre Hop; I hope you'll join us again this Thursday.Oak Hill Homesteadhttp://www.oakhillhomestead.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027191706980748713.post-76170211390122078492013-07-26T07:02:15.349+10:002013-07-26T07:02:15.349+10:00Hi Liz, I enjoyed reading the interviews, maybe a ...Hi Liz, I enjoyed reading the interviews, maybe a series on keeping a house cow next??<br />My advice to anyone thinking of keeping chickens is; prepare to become involved in the drama of their lives (better than Home and Away). For example; When your alpha hen goes clucky and decides to sit for a month on avocado seeds, the fights and strange behaviors exhibited by the beta hens trying to become alpha hen will amuse and bemuse you. <br />Jude from Australia. (Chronicles of a humpy dweller)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16182408012625352004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027191706980748713.post-59192939127315429552013-07-25T09:55:14.251+10:002013-07-25T09:55:14.251+10:00I too liked your series. My advice would be to mak...I too liked your series. My advice would be to make sure you have suitable secure housing for your chickens BEFORE you purchase them. Its a real pain when livestock comes home and you haven't planned properly for them. <br />LyndaCrunchie's Mumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10561893477545578734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027191706980748713.post-24059427537405253712013-07-24T22:30:37.085+10:002013-07-24T22:30:37.085+10:00Cheers Liz, we are waiting until we move on to our...Cheers Liz, we are waiting until we move on to our farm to get into chookopia.<br />Glennhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15215555304353199507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027191706980748713.post-35874868537027969102013-07-24T21:07:15.998+10:002013-07-24T21:07:15.998+10:00Yes, I too liked it. My advice would be to start ...Yes, I too liked it. My advice would be to start small. And keep them away from your food gardens, 'cause they will ruin a seasons food within hours...That does look like an informative read, thanks for the chance to win it.<br /><br />Barb.Barb.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11383714327462070532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027191706980748713.post-82544931957646073552013-07-24T20:16:10.329+10:002013-07-24T20:16:10.329+10:00I think the series has been a very sensible and in...I think the series has been a very sensible and informative thing to do with the rising popularity of keeping backyard chooks. My one BIG bug bare is....be prepared to kill your chooks. Invariably there will be illness like a cloaca prolapse or an attack by other animal and the kindest thing is euthanasia. Same goes for roosters....don't dump them....it's kinder to kill them (and makes sense). Tomorrow night at our Living Better meet-up we are really talking poultry in a big way and we have a speaker to talk to us about coccidiosis. Looking forward to it. Tanya Murrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04867118885094628168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027191706980748713.post-42671707318723959102013-07-24T18:05:43.687+10:002013-07-24T18:05:43.687+10:00Loved this series!!! It was so funny and I learnt ...Loved this series!!! It was so funny and I learnt heaps. I love my chooks. At the moment they are super busy at the moment working over my garden. I love my mini tractors!!! I'm in NZ (as you know) but my brother lives in Oz and he's coming here next month. Can I please still enter? Would so LOVE this book!!!! Look forward to the next series! Mx Madeleine @ NZ Ecochickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09035203946351449709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027191706980748713.post-61511678253154373642013-07-24T10:03:09.306+10:002013-07-24T10:03:09.306+10:00Hi Liz, thanks for this series and for offering a ...Hi Liz, thanks for this series and for offering a give away of this book. My advice, after everything that has happened here on the farm the last few weeks, make sure a fox/dogs etc 100% can not get in to their pens, I thought I had mine pretty well covered, but something still found it's way in while the big dogs were away from the property...and read everything you can about them and build a practical pen, squeezing in to a small pen to catch a chicken or clean out their pen is no fun...Debra Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12928630615929764333noreply@blogger.com