Backyard Chooks
Now on the verge of extinction these truly remarkable ladies deserve to have their names up in lights in backyard coops all over the world.
Backyard chooks. Soggy cornflakes mashed potato bits of meat or mince stale biscuits. We are backyard chicken coops a team of chicken experts who want to give all of australia the best experience of owning chooks. Mine love pasta and rice. There goes the guilt about the throwing away perfectly good food or worst still piling on the kilos when you eat your children s leftovers give it to the chooks.
We design and build a range of high quality houses for chickens some large some small for delivery to every postcode in australia together with a hand picked range of great accessories to keep happy and healthy chooks in your backyard. Worms can be indicated by diarrhoea weight loss and a drop off in egg production. Having backyard chooks is a proud aussie tradition. Chooks aren t bothered about where the food has come from.
Many of us grew up with the typically spacious suburban backyard with the chook pen down the back. Backyard chooks need a constant supply of fresh water and a diet of appropriate poultry pellets supplemented with kitchen scraps. It s great to have fresh eggs and for your kids to learn about where their food comes from but backyard chooks and ducks can be a source of salmonella infections which can cause serious illnesses. Unfortunately occasionally illnesses crop up in flocks that can affect individual birds or in some cases a significant proportion of the flock.
In my case a number of fox attacks when i. They need a dry enclosure and protection from predators such as cats dogs and foxes. Though minorca chooks really need no explanation please read the top 5 reasons we love these eggceptionally enticing egg laying wonders here. The covid 19 pandemic has seen a big jump in the number of local families raising chickens.