The 4 Essential Tips for Keeping a Rooster in your Urban Backyard
Roosters are a contentious issue among backyard chicken keepers. On the one hand, these charming chaps can be a huge benefit in keeping your flock...
The Ultimate Guide to Chicken Coop Predator Prevention
Keeping your chicken coop safe from prowling predators is a top concern for all chicken keepers. Whether you live in an urban, suburban or rural...
Predator Profile: Quolls
There are limited areas in Australia that Quolls call home - meaning they may not be a threat to you and your chickens. They are...
How to Keep Your Chickens Safe From Snakes
Sssssnakes. The name alone might make you frightened for your flock. But fear not! Although chickens do occasionally fall victim to snakes, they are mostly...
Predator Profile: Foxes
As hard as it is to believe, there are some animals out there who don’t see your precious flock as cute little feathered friends like...
6 Ways To Protect Your Flock From Predators This Winter
Though Australia isn’t really renowned for experiencing frosty winter, it is still important to recognise that there is an increase in the predator threat to...
Predator Profile: Rats
Chicken keeping does not have to be difficult or stressful, and you shouldn’t have to spend your time worrying about the pending threat that rats...
Tips About Protecting Baby Chickens
Baby Chicks And Your Dog: A Love Story Everybody loves their pets: dogs, cats, baby chickens, goannas, cobras, chimpanzees, it doesn’t matter - a caring...
Easy Guide To Looking After Your Chickens While You're On Holiday
Have you been marking the days off your calendar with breathless anticipation of your overseas holiday? Packing up and leaving home for a few weeks...
Flying The Coop: How To Look After Your Chickens When You Go Away For The Weekend
First time chicken owners often get quite nervous and anxious at the thought of leaving their fine feathered friends home alone for a weekend. Easter,...
How Do I Train My Dog To Stop Chasing The Chickens? Training the Kelpie x and 2 Neo Mastiff's/American Bulldogs
Dogs and chickens. They don't seem like obvious friends - but they certainly can be! With a bit of training and patience, these two animals...
Dogs + Chickens = Great Friends!
Imagine if you will, a feathery flock of chickens happily interacting in the same backyard with a furry dog! Well, wonders never cease. Family dogs...
Dogs And Chickens: How Dogs Can Protect Your Flock
Dogs and chickens. When most people think of these animals together, they conjure up images of terrorised chickens, dogs jaws and claws in action, and...
Keeping Chickens Around Your Pet Dog: Training the Labrador and Pomeranian To Live With Isa Browns
Dogs and chickens - many approach this combination of backyard animals with trepidation, but it needn’t be so. You can have both dogs and chickens...
The Dog Dilemma: Training the Staffordshire Bull Terrier to live with Rhode Island Reds
Dogs and chickens. At first thought, they may not seem like the ideal companions, but contrary to popular belief you can in fact keep both...
5 Things to Add to Your Chicken Dust Bath
When it’s time for your chooks to freshen up, your backyard flock loves to get down and dirty to stay clean - it’s called a...
13 Things to Keep in a First Aid Kit for Chickens
Although backyard chickens are hardy girls it’s always a good idea to have a chook first aid kit on hand to keep them flappin’ fit....
5 Top Tips On How To Clip Chickens' Wings
Got a flighty chook? Are you worried that your sweet feathered friends will take flight and flee in search of greener pastures? No worries. A...
How To Help Your Chickens Beat The Elements
Hot chicken? Or chilly chicken? Well, preferably none of these should be on the menu for our feathered friends! Whilst chickens are renown for their...
Top Five Ways to Keep your Chicken Warm this Winter!
1. Chicken Jumpers! So you may not have heard of these egg-cellent chicken warming fashion statements, but we assure you, once you have, you’ll be sitting by...
The Chicken Coop - Creating the Best Environment for your Chickens
When many people first consider keeping chickens, they wonder what kind of housing their new chooks will need. While it is possible to keep baby chicks...
Chicken Wire: What’s Best for Your Chooks
Safety from predators and egg thieves like rats, goannas, foxes, quolls and snakes is one of the most important factors when setting up a happy...
Introducing New Chickens To Your Flock
Keeping chickens can quickly become a very addictive hobby, and while you swore you were only going to have four feathered friends, often you start...
14 Ways to Use Portable Electric Fencing
Portable electric fencing is a versatile tool for any size property, from urban backyards to hobby farms to full scale farming operations. This genius netting...
The Ultimate Guide to Using Electric Poultry Fencing
More and more chicken keepers, from large flock runners to backyard chook ladies, are seeing the benefits of using an electric fence to keep their...
Electric Poultry Fencing - Frequently Asked Questions
Many chicken keepers may not be aware of how easy it is to keep your hens safe from poultry predators with electric fencing. Electric poultry fencing helps keep...
3 Reasons Electric Poultry Fencing is Great For Your Chicken Flock
Electric Poultry Fencing Keeps the Predators Out Using an electric fence to protect chickens while they forage and roost is your best defence against chook...
How To Keep Your Chickens & Their Coop Warm All Winter
We’re the first to admit that winter in Australia is pretty mellow compared to the blustery blizzards and chilly snowfalls that some chicken lovers need...
Step By Step Guide To Protecting Your Chickens From A Storm
A million and one things start to buzz through your brain after a storm warning is announced; thoughts for you partner, your children and of course...
Can I Keep Baby Chickens If I Have Cats?
Baby Chickens & Your Kitty Cat: Nasty Nemesis Or Feline Friend? Baby chickens are synonymous with all things cute, fragile and oh so cuddly. Domestic...
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