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Apr 10th, 2021 at 3:27pm
 
I want six chooks for my Tassie backyard when the time comes. Love having chooks in the backyard, love the contented clucking of happy chooks. A very comfortable domestic sound.

With six chooks I don’t need all the birds to lay three eggs a day? (Actually birds lay on a 25 hour schedule so the best layers miss out a day and no or few eggs are laid in the middle of winter.) So can have a mix of breeds including a couple more decorative than great egg producers.

No foxes in Tasmania but dogs aplenty, rats too. Chicken run and coop need to be secure. Keep wild birds out too—they can bring disease. Demi managed to get into the run a couple times.

Chickens are cannibalistic as hell, any chicken with a wound needs to be removed to its own cage—near the run, chickens are intensely social. Cannot keep one chook, need two at least.


So, think I can manage to keep chooks. No idea about good breeds tho.

Anybody info on reasonably cold hardy productive layers? Or a good “pencilled” breed?

Or have any informative funny stories about keeping chickens?

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Reply #1 - Apr 10th, 2021 at 3:58pm
 
“Pencilled chickens”



(Hamburg breed.)
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Reply #2 - Apr 10th, 2021 at 4:38pm
 
Six chooks = lots of eggs = lots of omelettes.

Thinking of getting this, a Japanese rectangular omelette pan:

https://www.amazon.com.au/Tamagoyaki-Japanese-Omelette-Wooden-Handle/dp/B07FFHT9...
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Reply #3 - Apr 10th, 2021 at 5:17pm
 
I’ve always wanted chooks but hubby said not to bother with the hassle and just buy the eggs from the supermarket instead.
What a wowser!
So I do the next best thing... I buy free range eggs from people with chooks!

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Reply #4 - Apr 10th, 2021 at 5:28pm
 
That is the way!

An egg is at its best 3 days after laying. Incredible flavor!

Have a fave way of making an omelette or scrambled eggs?
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Reply #5 - Apr 10th, 2021 at 6:47pm
 
Any problems with keeping chooks in Tassie? I know some councils in NSW are very anal when it comes to people wanting to keep chooks in a suburban setting.
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Reply #6 - Apr 10th, 2021 at 6:57pm
 
Well, that will have to be sorted out.

I will be on a 4000qm block not a 400sqm one. I do not expect problems—keeping a rooster is a LOT more difficult but roosters are not needed to get eggs.
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Reply #7 - Apr 10th, 2021 at 7:20pm
 
Thought you sold your block.
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Reply #8 - Apr 10th, 2021 at 7:32pm
 
To buy a bigger better block.

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Reply #9 - Apr 10th, 2021 at 7:46pm
 
4000sqm pretty decent size, you could easily be self supporting  for food on a block that size. You could have a huge chook run, even a sheep or a goat or 2.
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Reply #10 - Apr 10th, 2021 at 8:22pm
 
I do not want to be the sort of hobby farmer that lets weeds grow on  his block to invade the land of real farmers.

4000sqm is a bit beyond the range of what I am looking for, 1500–2000sqm be nice, 1000sqm absolute minimum, 3000sqm absolute max..

I know about weeds—my former block in George Town had blackberries (and snakes) in the trees in  the road reserve in  front of my block. I constantly had to destroy blackberry vi nes starting to grow on my block.
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Reply #11 - Apr 10th, 2021 at 8:46pm
 
Sophia wrote on Apr 10th, 2021 at 5:17pm:
I’ve always wanted chooks but hubby said not to bother with the hassle and just buy the eggs from the supermarket instead.
What a wowser!
So I do the next best thing... I buy free range eggs from people with chooks!





The flavor of the eggs comes from the sort
of food you feed the chooks.
If it's cheap rubbish food - you'll get cheap rubbish eggs.
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Reply #12 - Apr 10th, 2021 at 8:49pm
 
Chicken feed costs, well, chickenfeed!
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Reply #13 - Apr 10th, 2021 at 8:51pm
 
Jovial Monk wrote on Apr 10th, 2021 at 8:49pm:
Chicken feed costs, well, chickenfeed!



Do you know anything about the correct food to give chooks?

It's not cheap chicken feed -
if you want healthy chooks
and good strong egg shells and tasty eggs.
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Reply #14 - Apr 10th, 2021 at 8:57pm
 
Bobby. wrote on Apr 10th, 2021 at 8:51pm:
Jovial Monk wrote on Apr 10th, 2021 at 8:49pm:
Chicken feed costs, well, chickenfeed!



Do you know anything about the correct food to give chooks?

It's not cheap chicken feed -
if you want healthy chooks
and good strong egg shells and tasty eggs.


I think Monk knows a thing or two about feeding the chooks Wink
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