The new house..

[Angry51]

Here's the latest project, our new chook house.

The girls just love it. Need to put gate on front of pen.

Getting that made in town, couldn't be bothered doing it here.

[Bretto77]

You are spoiling them

[Angry51]

Sat them all down the other day and stipulated that when they move in

we expect 2 eggs every day per chook. Well, someone needs to pay for

the assets don't they.Yeah, it's a bit flash.

They've been living in an upturned pig crate for the last 2 years as I never got

around to building their house till now.

[Bretto77]

17 minutes ago, Angry51 said:

2 eggs every day per chook.

[Bretto77]

A few years ago my house got broken into. I told the attending police officers that I was going to have to have a serious conversation with the chooks because they had not deterred the offenders. 

The police thought it was hilarious at the time... But the chooks must have overheard because I have not had a problem since...

[Angry51]

Might sound stupid but I'm sure animals can understand us, Don't tell anyone

but I talk to my animals all the time. Half the chooks follow me around like a dog, where ever I go

they follow and cackle away as if they are telling me something.

Dont you tell anyone I said so. I've even got one chook runs after me in the old farm

ute and squarks and carries on till I stop and let her in the front with me. I tell ya talk about

a funny farm.

[Bretto77]

Well don't you tell anyone either, but I always talk to my animals too... I am forever telling the cat how hideously ugly it is and that it's the ultimate purveyor of all stenches foul and fetid... "Are you sure there's not ten farting cats inside that fur coat"?.... Meeeooowww...

[ellicat]

That's not a house, it's a resort ! They won't be laying, they'll be laying back...sunning themselves with sunnies on. haha

[Angry51]

43 minutes ago, ellicat said:

That's not a house, it's a resort ! They won't be laying, they'll be laying back...sunning themselves with sunnies on. haha

That's what I'm afraid of.

[Bretto77]

One of the chooks I had a few years ago used to try to sneak into my ute of a morning... I had to turn around not far from home a couple of times...

[Old Scaley]

You could stick that palace on Airbnb, @Angry51.  My mother-in-law’s neighbour keeps chooks. Any that are not laying get their ne is wrung. He makes a point of doing this in front of the other chooks cos he reckons they know why and it reminds them to keep those eggs coming.

[Bretto77]

8 minutes ago, Old Scaley said:

You could stick that palace on Airbnb, @Angry51.  My mother-in-law’s neighbour keeps chooks. Any that are not laying get their ne is wrung. He makes a point of doing this in front of the other chooks cos he reckons they know why and it reminds them to keep those eggs coming.

I had a hen that started crowing... Let it go for a bit... But it signed a terminal agreement the morning it jumped onto my window sill, pecked on the window and started crowing... Transgender chooks don't last at my place...

[Angry51]

yeah, we got one trans, doesn't crow but does the other

bits to the girl ones. Tried talking to her/him but not

getting through. The one that rides in the ute thinks she owns the ute

and bosses the other ones who try to get in , utes got no door on drivers side,

fully air conditioned. Wonder what the poor people do for entertainment.

[Bretto77]

We used to take the drivers side door off some of the utes on the prawn farm because you were in and out so often checking things. 

Didn't have a chook riding shotgun though

[Bretto77]

2 hours ago, Angry51 said:

yeah, we got one trans, doesn't crow but does the other

bits to the girl ones.

It's a dominance thing. Happens more if you don't keep a rooster with them. Also if you don't keep a rooster and they get a bit of age on them, damage to one ovary (through egg laying or infection etc) can lead to increased testosterone levels and the hen will begin the transgender process. Usually crowing and the comb will become more prominent. They even begin growing full spurs.

[Angry51]

Well I'd better get a boy chook for them shortly.

Don't want that gender thing around our place, see enough of 

that on TV.

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Nice work Angry, looks great! 

[Bretto77]

I don't want a rooster at my place. That's ok if you want to get into the work of breeding and selling and don't have close neighbors that might object. 

I don't mind a light cackle to remind me of the first foragable light of day, but 2-3am blasted into my much needed slumber I find very uncharismatic given my circumstances....

[rayke1938]

As a kid if I woke in the middle of the night I would crow like a rooster and set off all the other neighbourhood roosters and the occasional dog in the area. Worse thing was when the occasional fox got in the mongrel things would kill every chook just for  the sake of killing.

Edited April 9, 2023 by rayke1938

[Bretto77]

1 hour ago, rayke1938 said:

As a kid if I woke in the middle of the night I would crow like a rooster and set off all the other neighbourhood roosters and the occasional dog in the area.

Did your parents appreciate that Ray?

[rayke1938]

they did not know it was me as it only took one small crow to start it off.