Want your chickens to be the healthiest and happiest they can be? I offer backyard chicken workshops
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20/01/2024
✨🐓Looking to buy, build or upgrade your next chicken house? This masterclass is a MUST!
I’ll be sharing the essential must-haves for chicken housing, budget-friendly design tweaks that will save you time every day, and ways to avoid common design mistakes so you can create a simple and easily maintainable environment for your backyard chickens.
Intro to Planning Your Next Chicken House - An online masterclass by expert Chicken Coach, Elise McNamara
24/10/2022
Wondering how some people make chicken keeping look easy?
Get started on the right foot and be confident in the care and health of your flock, with expert Chicken Coach, Elise McNamara.
Chooks From Scratch - Naturally.
WHAT: A 90-minute live online workshop, followed by 30 minutes Q&A.
WHEN: 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Sunday 30 October 2022
A limited time recording will be available if you’re unable to join me live.
WHO IS THIS WORKSHOP FOR?
🐔Beginners or those new-ish to chooks
🐔You want to feel confident in your own ability to observe your chooks’ health and behaviour
🐔You’re looking to get started with backyard chickens and you want to start with healthy chooks and an easy set-up
🐔You want an easy list of things to do, when and how
🐔You want to know you’re feeding the right feed for your flock and you’re not attracting every wild bird and rodent in the district!
Questions? Send me a PM and I’ll get you sorted 🙌
I look forward to meeting some new faces! Elise
19/10/2022
Nesting box herbs are back in stock!
This mix helps to repel lice, mites, and insects in your chickens’ nesting boxes, as well as having a calming effect on your birds.
How to use - Simply sprinkle 1/4 to 1/2 cup of the herbal mix per nesting box. Replace when refreshing their nest litter. Available on the chickencoach.com. Elise 🐔
16/10/2022
👏🏡🐔THANK YOU Annie for opening up your home and garden (and amazing chook house) for everyone to enjoy as part of Geelong Sustainable House Day 2022. This is a great example of what you can do any backyard. When I help people design chicken coops/ houses/ runs for small spaces, Annie’s place comes to mind. It uses a lot of Permaculture principles and is incredibly functional for a busy person who wants to maximise their space and make things easy. Plus, have happy chooks! 🐓👏
If you want help creating or retrofitting a beautiful chook space, send me a message and I’ll send you some options to get started 🙂🐓Elise
12/10/2022
GEELONG and surrounds📣There is so much happening this weekend!🥳 Sustainable House Day is running over Saturday and Sunday. Don’t miss your chance to see some beautiful properties in Geelong, Torquay and the Bellarine, plus expert talks on retrofitting and building. I’ll be at Annie’s incredible garden in Highton from 10-2pm Sunday to answer any of your chook🐔 questions. I’m bringing some hens that work in small spaces, too! Details in bio/comments.
Then we also have the Royal Geelong Show, Thursday to Sunday. Don’t miss the poultry pavilion. See hundreds of beautiful breeds, including some rare breeds and even a Guinea fowl and turkey! 🦃 Chicks will be hatching all weekend🐣 and many other activities.
If we cross paths, be sure to say hi! 😊👋 Elise
19/08/2022
The biggest problem my backyard 🐓 owners have in winter is avoiding their space becoming a muddy mess!
Mud and chooks are not a good mix.
We’re nearly at the end of winter here in Australia, but SAND can really help. Ask for ‘coarse washed sand’/equestrian/river/propagation sand, not kids’ play sand. Elise
16/08/2022
How do you store your chicken grain? I love that I can open these bins one-handed and don’t have to put the lid back on! They also keep the feed dry and away from rodents🙌🐓 Elise
31/07/2022
Happy August! I hope you and your birds are getting through winter (or summer!) and keeping well.
I was thrilled to bits to be asked to contribute to Vasili's garden to kitchen mag this season!😊🐓 It’s super practical and perfect for anyone growing food organically. There are always beautiful seasonal recipes, some from Mamma, this edition from Cire Community School.👏 Pick up a copy at your local newsagent or online. Vasili also does DAILY YouTubes following the seasons - such an amazing contribution to our food-growing community. Jump on their email list and follow along! 👉vasilisgarden.com 🌱
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Permaculture, Heat Stress & Housing - FREE LIVE online masterclasses are happening 22-30 January 2024. Visit chickencoach.com/events for more info and to register! Hope to see you there, Elise #backyardchickens #poultry #permaculture #NaturalChickenCare
👋 2023-24 update:Hello! Elise here from Chicken Coach. It’s been such a long time since I’ve done a video! I hope you and your birds are well.👶2023 was another massive year including another baby boy, Lachie, in August! Ollie has just gone 2 this week, so things are busy but very fun. 🐓🐓I’m setting dates for some wonderful and fresh in-person and online events for 2024. 📩Talk to you soon and I look forward to seeing many of you in person this year!
Nesting box herbs are back in stock!
This mix helps to repel lice, mites, and insects in your chickens’ nesting boxes, as well as having a calming effect on your birds.
How to use - Simply sprinkle 1/4 to 1/2 cup of the herbal mix per nesting box. Replace when refreshing their nest litter. Available on the chickencoach.com. Elise 🐔
👏🏡🐔THANK YOU Annie for opening up your home and garden (and amazing chook house) for everyone to enjoy as part of Geelong Sustainable House Day 2022. This is a great example of what you can do any backyard. When I help people design chicken coops/ houses/ runs for small spaces, Annie’s place comes to mind. It uses a lot of Permaculture principles and is incredibly functional for a busy person who wants to maximise their space and make things easy. Plus, have happy chooks! 🐓👏
If you want help creating or retrofitting a beautiful chook space, send me a message and I’ll send you some options to get started 🙂🐓Elise #chickencoop #permaculture #permaculturegarden #nolawngarden #backyardchickens #sustainablegardening
How do you store your chicken grain? I love that I can open these bins one-handed and don’t have to put the lid back on! They also keep the feed dry and away from rodents🙌🐓 Elise
Natural Chicken Care - An Introduction
🐓 11am Saturday 16 October 2021
Master the basics of keeping backyard chickens...Naturally!
Join me, Elise McNamara for this 2.5 hour LIVE Zoom online workshop.
Natural Chicken Care - An Introduction will show you new, modern and natural ways of caring for your chickens PLUS time for Q&A. Small group classes - Don't miss out!
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I’m running this webinar one last time! WINTER CHICKEN CARE NATURALLY. If you missed the June session, join me next Thursday 5 August 2021 @ 7:30pm. We'll run for 40 mins + 15 mins Q+A. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Join via Zoom for this LIVE webinar to discuss simple ways you can keep your flock thriving over the coming months, and prevent your yard from becoming a muddy mess! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Look forward to seeing you. Elise
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Many people are disappointed their chooks aren’t as tame as they imagined they would be...Building trust with chooks takes time.
Start with younger pullets if you can, and teach your kids to move quietly around the flock. Occasional treats also help!
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Welcome to Chicken Coach
Want to keep healthy chickens, as naturally as possible? You’re in the right place. I’m Elise McNamara and I help families, schools and free range farmers to maintain healthy, happy and productive hens.
Whether it be sport, fashion, travel or music, everyone has a passion. Mine happens to have beaks and feathers. As anyone who knows me knows, I love poultry, no not poetry, poultry – yes, chickens!
I’ve helped dozens of families get started with chickens across Geelong and Melbourne, and now offer ongoing advice, in-person workshops and flock maintenance visits (worm testing, worming, dusting birds for mites etc). I now also sell the natural products that I love and use to keep my birds in tip-top condition.
I'm fortunate to have found many other passionate poultry people over the years, sharing and collecting knowledge from the best breeders, farmers, vets and avian specialists in Australia.
My special interests:
Chickens in Permaculture and practical garden design
Successfully keeping chickens in community settings
Role of nutrition in disease prevention and egg production
Chicken caravans - chicken behaviour and decreasing flock stress
Diversifying your farm with poultry
So if you or someone you know needs chicken advice, or you'd like to organise a workshop or masterclass for your feed store, school or community group, get in touch. I'm always happy to talk chooks!
