🐓Chickens that lay on average 25 cartons of eggs a year, at $5 a carton, thats $125 of eggs a year from 1 Chicken. Thats a pretty good return on a pet that cost a quarter of the price. All while taking care of kitchen scraps and over grown grassed areas just to name a few of the pros. Unless your as handsome as Kyan. He thought this video was about him. 👨🏾🌾🤣
An evening lamb count while Bethany tells me about her day.👨🏾🌾🐓. Hope everyone has a great weekend.
An easy way to give your chickens access to feed and water while going away over Easter. Or wanting a cool project to build with the kids this holiday. Using our feeders and drinking cups available on our website https://southwestchooks.com.au/. Then attaching them to any bucket or in this case recycle bin. One bin is for feed, the other for water.
With the cooler month starting to set in, there are a few thing you can do to increase and help your chickens stay comfortable and not completely stop laying eggs.🥚🥚. The main one we do is increase protein content of feed.
Your typical layer feed contains around 16% protein, which is fine when the weather is warm and given plenty of access for them to forage for bugs and worms. As it cools down energy then goes into keeping themselves warm. Which reduces or stops egg production. Increasing protein content to 18-20% we find helps egg production during the colder months.
Our young layers. Producing all the eggs you need ready to go👨🏾🌾👌🏾
You may see my boy Kyan being featured a few times in our videos. About 4 years ago i was surprised with him as a birthday gift. After getting the playful puppy hunting instinct out of him he has been so good around all the chooks and animals. He is the resident working farm dog at least looks like he works in all his photos. He loves coming for drives when we head downsouth for our chicken deliveries especially if there is dog beach stop off.
New products that we love so much, making keeping chickens so much easier. 👨🏾🌾🐔🐣🐓
Chicken feeder port. Turns any bucket into a feeders. Reducing feed wastage from spillage and rain. Can be purchased as single feeders or ready made in buckets ready to hang
Water drinking cups. Allowing chickens to access fresh clean water. Can be purchased a single drinkers or ready made buckets
Roll away nesting boxes. Easy to mount with built in a compartment where eggs roll way ready to collect. Keeping the eggs clean and reducing cracking.
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Our chickens are enjoying another spectacular Ferguson Valley sunset from their chicken tractor homes.