Chookala

17/04/2025

Excellent advice !

🐰🐔 With the Easter Bunny on the move this month, good biosecurity starts at home.

These simple biosecurity habits will help keep your birds (and the Easter Bunny) happy and healthy.

✔️ Have a biosecurity plan
✔️ Clean coops, feeders and drinkers regularly
✔️ Replace nesting materials often
✔️ Wash hands with soap and warm water after handling birds or eggs
✔️ Prevent contact with wild birds, rodents and pets.

Report unexplained bird deaths: Emergency Animal Disease (EAD) Hotline 1800 675 888.

🐓 Learn more: agriculture.vic.gov.au/backyardpoultry

Happy Easter! 🐣🐇

👉 For more information about the current response, visit agriculture.vic.gov.au/avianinfluenza

14/04/2025

Thanks to Julian for this video of his gorgeous wee Silver Millefleur ladies - they’re the cutest ! 🤍🖤🐓

14/04/2025

Pop on over and say hello to Julian !

He is a big fan of the mighty d’Uccle and his birds are the sweetest 🤍🐓

Hi! I’m thed’ucclefamily. Welcome to my life with chickens!

05/04/2025

6 weeks on Tuesday and we are loose!

Could these 2 get any sweeter?

Exploring our room is there favourite thing… they adore sleeping in a sunny spot

We are so impressed with their potty training- Ragdolls are super clean cats and Mimi has taught them so well

All babies are eating solids beautifully too and are getting chunky !

20/03/2025

Week 3

Mimi’s babies are growing so quickly now.

They’re got their legs and have started to play.

Yes, I may already have a favourite ….
Pretty hard to ignore when you sit down beside the cage and they want to be right near you.

This little one waddles over to me whenever I’m near the cage - too sweet!🤍💙

25/02/2025

Delivering down to Nar Nar Goon tomorrow if anyone wants a delivery of our beautiful bio-dynamic rice hulls ….

Please PM 🤍🐓

22/02/2025

Do your chookens struggle in the heat?

Just an idea!

What to do with those giant sized end of season zucchini….

Perfect for chookens on a hot day

I split and freeze, kind of like a huge zucchini icypole!

They cool down their core as they eat them and last several hours 🤍🐓

19/02/2025

To help stop the spread of high pathogenicity avian influenza (bird flu), a control area is in place in Strathbogie Shire in the area to the east of the Goulburn Valley Highway. Within the control area there is a restricted area which includes roughly 5 kilometres around the properties where disease has been detected in poultry at Euroa.

Movement of birds and their products is not allowed in the restricted or control area, including eggs, manure, feed and equipment. If you need to move your birds or poultry products into, out of or within the declared area, you must apply for a permit.

Exemptions are in place for vehicles transporting livestock and other agricultural products along the Hume Highway.

In the restricted area, premises with 50 or more birds are also required to house their flock.

For more information, agriculture.vic.gov.au/avianinfluenza

17/02/2025

Our friend Julian took this magnificent photo of his beautiful Silver Millefleur hen Pearl

She is absolutely gorgeous and Julian could be a professional photographer- such a great photo- very impressive Julian !

🤍🐓🤍🐓🤍🐓🤍🐓🤍🐓🤍🐓🤍🐓

16/02/2025

2 of my favourite things

•Dutch licorice

• Tiny Chookens 🤍🐓

11/02/2025

Important read for all poultry owners !

Avian influenza (AI) is a notifiable, highly contagious viral disease, affecting mainly birds. It can also affect humans in rare cases.

10/02/2025

So these are birds that belong to our lovely client Debbie

How gorgeous are they ?

And living their best life, enjoying their Greek yoghurt out of the reach of the mean big girls !

08/02/2025

Oh George!

Such beautiful pics from his Mum Sam
He’s a real character….

‘He is so beautiful. He has been desexed. He has the most amazing bold personality. I wish you could see how glorious he is’

🤍💙

08/02/2025

How many bags of rice hulls would I need?

1. Measure your coop ( don’t forget nesting boxes)

2. You should aim for approximately 5cm depth of whole, unground rice hulls (deep litter method requires minimum 10cm).

3. For capping old litter, generally aim for 1cm depth. Coverage with whole unground rice hulls to a depth of 10cm requires approximately 10kg/m³.

4. I generally take out a half a bucket a week per pen ( taking debris every day) and top it up with the same

The deep litter method makes it super economical!

Happy chookening folks 🤍🐓

04/02/2025

03/02/2025

Fascinating 🤍🐓

02/02/2025

Hot weather ? 🐦‍🔥☄️🔥🌶️❌🐓

• check your chookens

• double check that they’re not in direct sunlight

• shade is essential

• frozen water bottles in the waterers

• misting system- damp down your coops ( ours is $20 from Bunnings)

• frozen treats - zuchs, watermelon etc

• clean cool water - chookens will not drink warm water

•rice hulls - perfect to damp down as they dry super quick - drawing moisture down and away

• moving chookens inside if they’re heat stressed

Remember to keep yourself hydrated and wear a hat !

Happy chookening folks 🤍🐓