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Fourteen free eggs for us

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381928) • Rockingham, Australia 17 Nov

At short notice, I rang my cousin to ask if we could take our Bavarian visitors to their farm, which they purchased from my father. They were in Tasmania but, to cut a long story short, they were happy for us to visit and to take...

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isa brown chickens

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Time for Vince to put the girls to bed

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381928) • Rockingham, Australia 9 Jan 23

We have seven chooks (chickens) to look after at this house-sit. We let them out of their big yard at about 10am by which time they have finished laying their eggs. They have a water-trough which fills automatically and a...

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I'm hanging out for a sponge cake

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381928) • Rockingham, Australia 30 Sep 22

At our house-sit, there are six hens in a pen. They don’t need to be fed and watered as they have big containers of both but we collect the eggs and take them some green food each day. The breed is Isa Brown and they are friendly,...

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The Year I Grew Sweetcorn

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381928) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Sep 22

MyLotter Fleur (@Fleura) wrote about the sweetcorn she grew. You can catch up here: https://www.mylot.com/post/3525469/my-attempts-to-grow-sweetcorn I was reminded of the time I had it in our vegetable garden. It was back in...

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vegetable garden

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Did you know chooks (chickens) can have beards?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381928) • Rockingham, Australia 2 Jul 20

Did you know chickens are called ‘chooks’ in Australia? Chickens to us are baby chooks. There is great variety in the chook world, just as there is among many livestock breeds such as sheep or cattle. Some chicken breeds have...

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Two Chooks Please

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381928) • Rockingham, Australia 19 Feb 17

Someone's post reminded me of this but I can't for the life of me remember whose post it was. A woman went into a butcher's and wanted a dressed chook (chicken). The butcher only had the one left but didn't tell the woman. She...

dressed chicken

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Bush Poetry 1 - Fleeced

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381928) • Rockingham, Australia 21 Aug 16

I wrote recently about Australian bush poetry. Here is one I wrote. Chooks is Australian for chickens and the Mini was a Mini Minor. I hope you enjoy it. True story. Fleeced Way back in the seventies when we were young and...

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WIFE is working Woolies nightfill and comes home with........

chileman @chileman (967) • Australia 30 Apr 07

She works from 7pm till midnight....so I woke up this morning and opened the fridge and there is 2 large BBQ chooks from woolies......they marked them down to clear them just before closing and my wife asked the boss if she could...

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Grey Scrambled Eggs

pianoswirly1 @pianoswirly1 (83) • Australia 1 Feb 07

Recently we cooked up some scrambled eggs from our own chickens, and it turned really grey. Has anyone experienced this, and do you know what the problem might be. They are fed oats and wheat, along with a calcium supplement and...

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keeping chickens

bullfrog @bullfrog (8) • Australia 3 Nov 06

i got 2 chickens the other day so i can have fresh eggs every day. does anyone have any tips as to how to get the best eggs possible from them?

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