With all of the wet weather we’ve had in the past two months, it was inevitable that we would end up with chickens suffering from some kind of illness. I was prepared for respiratory infections and or Coccidiosis which are the most common wet weather afflictions. Of course, my chickens being unique specimens, they had […]
On Melbourne Cup Day, I decided to make a special dinner in honour of the big race that stops the nation. I had a chicken, a bottle of white wine, onion, and garlic to work with. Because it was race day, I decided to invent a recipe I have called Punter’s Chook. I […]
It sure is busy right now around Hensington Palace. We have made the decision to move into Bantam Wyandottes as our main breed and, in accordance with that, we purchased some various coloured bantam eggs for hatching. We also collected eggs from our black bantam Wyandotte team and set six of those, along with 18 varicoloured ones […]
On Sunday, we took one of our new Black Bantam Wyandotte hens for her first outing on the show bench. At least, I thought it was her first outing, but once we had her in her pen at the show, it became obvious she was an old hand at this whole deal. She stood up […]
I love how the keeping of poultry often comes hand in hand with opportunities to help other people. This has been the case this past week when I had the opportunity to buy some new chickens for my flock, whilst at the same time, helping out a couple of other poultry keepers. The first, was […]
I finally managed to grub up the courage to enter one of my chickens into a poultry show. I selected my Gold laced Wyandotte hen, Wynona whom my daughter Hannah affectionately calls “Little Win” for the show. It was a small show for one of the poultry clubs I am a member of, so I […]
The latest batch of chicks are growing and developing a lot faster than our first batch did. I have to wonder if this is because they are hybrids as opposed to pure bred. Yesterday, we placed a small branch from a tree into the corner of the brooder and it was not long before one […]
