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Had to give it away a few years back. Just wasnt compatable with the family.
Now my kids are pissed with me because they would have like to have had it.
Oh well thats life - The truth is i would have sold it for some more grow beds

That is a crime Marc!

Grow beds can be had from the tip...

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Looking fantastic Marc, great job!

I know what you mean about them not roosting where you want, mine are determined not to roost in the henhouse. I came home on Sunday night to find one on the neighbors fence, one on the woodpile and one underneath some concrete pavers!

Thanks Nebbian!





And the solution to getting them to roost in the hen house is....?

Mine have been so use to living in makeshift accommodation that they probably think it is for show.

I was surprised they started laying in there so soon, well before it was finished and were happy to abandon their old nesting boxes.

If men are from Mars then chooks are from Pluto!


Our latest lot of chooks are Australorps X Leghorn crosses about 10 weeks from laying. The day we got them I put them to bed to make sure they knew where to go and were OK. Next day all is good. The next day we had to go to a wedding so I hoped that they would remember where bed was and sort themselves out.

After a boozy night we staggered home and went to bed. At 5am I'm awake as I can hear the chooks making a noise so off I go to investigate . There are none of the new chooks to be seen in their pen. OMG . I then spend my Sunday morning looking all over the property and up and down the steet for the wayward girls. Not the best thing to do with a hangover and 3 hours sleep. Only found 5 of them. The other 5 were nowhere to be seen.

I had no idea what had happened. Was it a fox or dogs? There were a few feathers but not enough for an attack! Late that afternoon as I'm turning the steaks on the BBQ all hell breaks loose down by the new chooks. Forgetting the steaks I run off to see what was happening. The new girls were in a flat panic trying to fly over the 2m fence, flying through the fence, trying to go under the fence. It was chaos. So what was scaring them? I had no idea, there was nothing to be seen. Gathering up the girls, I was putting them in their hutch thinking that they should settle in there when all hell breaks loose again. I had one chook scrabble up the inside of my shirt, scratched my face - I'm sure you can imagine the scene. Bloody hell what is scaring them so much. The older chooks in the other pen were all watching and completely undisturbed other than to enjoy the entertainment.

Standing up I see a young bandicoot running between my legs like a fart in a bottle and off the chooks go again. I chase the bandicoot away and try to settle the chooks. The bandicoot heads off up to the house, hopefully never to be seen again. As I'm settling the girls again the F#%&g bandicoot comes flying down from the house and runs straight between my legs and into the girls hutch sending chooks everywhere. By now the steaks have burnt and I have my family watching and pissing themselves laughing.

God I hate bandicoots

epilogue

All is now good and the girls and the bandicoots now happily cohabitate together and the bandicoots now spend their waking hours digging up my veggie garden and garden and paths and ... and ...and...

God I hate bandicoots!!

still getting the egg boxes right.




and the finished product





Polycarbonate roof over marine ply with an air gap so it does not get too hot

That is the funniest thing I've read all week

Well it turns out that my feeder holds less than 9 days worth of food. I can't believe they would be so damn hungry but there you go.

After filling it up today at least one of the chooks decided that it would be nice to roost next to the feeder, the other two were on the woodpile again

Is it too early to threaten them with an axe?

Never too early... you can always pass them off.. as quail...

I find chooks are like wives; you are never going to understand them , they are unpredictable , so you just got to love 'em as they are!!

Thank god my wife does not read this forum or ...

Nebbian, have you tried cutting the flight feathers from one wing? That can fix the problem.

You will be able to tell which house is Nebbian's 'cos he has chooks all over his yard instead of gnomes!


They are hungry little buggers. mine go through a bag every 2 weeks. But then they eat everything I give them from the grow beds as well so I don't feel like I'm wasting food if the vegies get too badly infested or I grow too much!!

I'd suggest you refrain from ever calling your wife... an old chook... Marc...

Nah Rupert you read it wrong i said she is a good looking young chick. Well it would have said that if you rearranged the letters

Anyhow Rupert are you trying to get me banned!!

There's always the chook house mate....

bastard
Now I know why I built it so big.

Marc, yes my hand was forced today when Mrs Nebbian said "Honey, I think the chooks are trying to escape..." and there was one of the little buggers swaying back and forth on the top wire of the fence, obviously never done it before as she was well out of balance

So out with the scissors and now there's 30 primary feathers sitting on the ground.

It's great that they've started laying in your chookhouse already. They must recognise quality

Big belly laugh. You really are living on the edge!!

Wives are so insightful, god know how they ended up marrying us! Must be our capacity to hunt and gather.

Certainly seems to be the case with Nebbian... well, at least when it comes to chooks...