Brisbane Southside Bantams

27/12/2022

Available this week!

Bantam wyandottes, silver laced and silver pencilled These lovely healthy chickens make great pets and are good layers and mothers Point of lay hens and trios ..., 1305839088

15/10/2022

Some characters in the growing pen. PM for details 🙃🐔

08/04/2022

🐔 Feed your Hens well during Moult 🐔

Chickens moult every year, usually in autumn as days begin to shorten and nights get longer. It is a natural and normal process - although it can be alarming at first to find a big pile of feathers in the coop or see your hens or rooster looking scraggly and half naked!

Hens also stop laying through their moult. They use this time to regenerate their reproductive system, re-grow new feathers and generally build-up nutrient reserves for the cooler weather ahead.

Good nutrition is very important for chickens during a moult. It is essential that they receive enough calories, protein, vitamins and minerals to replenish their bodies. During moult, feed a good quality layer pellet (at least 16% protein) and limit unfortified* scratch grain to less than 10% of the diet. It is advisable to also add an extra protein source to ensure your girls have enough of the right amino acids to maintain healthy skin and grow new, strong feathers.

Farmalogic Fancy Feathers is a very concentrated source of protein (30%) fortified with antioxidants to support chicken health and nutrition during the moulting process. It is also naturally rich in omega-3 fatty acids important for building fertility, immunity and bone strength in poultry.

You can also help your chickens through their moult by reducing stress as much as possible. Protect them from weather extremes, minimise handling and avoid bringing new birds in or other disruptions to their established pecking order.

Adding prebiotics and probiotics helps maintain gut health during times of stress. Feeding probiotics during moult is recommended because the moulting process itself creates physiological stress.

Farmalogic Rejuvenate probiotic live yeast, prebiotic yeast cell wall products, nutribionic microfibres and zeolites designed to promote the health of backyard poultry flocks. It is easy to add to your chicken's normal layer feed, and can help to stimulate the immune system and improve nutrient retention during moulting.

Although your chickens may look very strange in moult, they should still be active and behave normally. Look deeper for health issues if your hens are depressed or lose their appetite along with their feathers.

The moult process begins with feathers on the head and neck. The next feathers to go are those on the back, breast and thighs, with the tail feathers being the last to be shed during moulting. There is no need to be alarmed if some chickens lose more feathers than others. During moult, some chickens will only lose a few feathers and regrow them within a month. Other birds may lose a lot of feathers and take several months to regrow them. New feathers emerge as pin feathers which take some time to unfurl.

Find out more at:
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*Unfortified grains are whole or crushed grains or mixes which do not have added vitamins and minerals. Fortified feeds such as layer pellets are a complete feed.

18/03/2022

Have a lovely weekend!

25/01/2022

Have you entered this prize draw yet? Only a few days left to enter... ⏰🍀🍀🍀

🎉🐓🎉Competition Time🎉🐔🎉
Who wants to WIN a Poultry Summer Health Pack including Farmalogic Fancy Feathers and Farmalogic Rejuvenate to build your bird's resilience to heat stress, improve gut health and immunity AND produce omega-3 enriched eggs?!

👉🏻 It's easy to enter! Simply register at:
https://mailchi.mp/farmalogic/summerpoultry21_22
🎁 We also have 20 sample packs to give away! 🎁 Enter the prize draw to be eligible!

16/10/2021

These guys are growing up fast! Three weeks old already. PM if interested in welsh harlequin coloured ducklings 🐥

06/06/2021

Gotta love a good duck! These guys are laying really well too. PM if you'd like to hatch some.

14/03/2021

Now available 😊

14/03/2021

Some promising blue, black and splash youngsters in the boy pen! PM if interested. 😊

11/01/2021

Gotta be in it to win it!

18/12/2020

We find these products really help when chook pens are muddy! And boy, we've got mud this week ;-)

Are you looking for solutions for:
✅ Gut health following antibiotic use?
✅ Stress management during hot weather, moulting, over-crowding, mud?
✅ Boosting immunity?
✅ Better fertility?

Visit the website and use the filter to search for products to solve your animal health problems.
In Australia: https://au.farmalogicglobal.com/farmalogic-farm
In New Zealand: https://nz.farmalogicglobal.com/farmalogic-farm

01/11/2020

Empty incubator? Clucky hen? If you want to hatch your own bantam chicks, contact us!
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06/09/2020

Some timely advice.

When was the last time you wormed your backyard poultry? Change of season is a good time to worm, and easy to remember!

Worming is important for managing internal parasites and maintaining a healthy flock. At worming, move your birds onto fresh ground &/or clean manure from cages and runs. Clean nesting boxes and provide clean bedding. Warmer weather and wild birds bring mites in spring so now is also a good time to treat for mites and use a preventative spray.

Worming does disrupt the beneficial gut microbes. We recommend adding Farmalogic Rejuvenate probiotics to your poultry feed for 5 to 7 days after worming. A 300g pack is only $25.50 and provides enough gut support to add to 10kg of poultry feed! Also available in 1.2kg and 10kg packs. Find out more at https://au.farmalogicglobal.com/farmalogic-farm/farmalogic-rejuvenate/.

Ask for Farmalogic Rejuvenate wherever good stock feeds are sold. Please let us know if your shop doesn't stock Farmalogic and needs help ordering it in for you.

31/08/2020

Fresh fertile eggs available to post today/tomorrow:
1 dozen silver laced bantam wyandotte ($45)
1 dozen polish and silkie eggs - about 8 polish and 4 silkie ($45)
SOLD 1 dozen mixed bantam wyandotte - mainly silver pencilled/white/crele with a few silver laced ($45)
PLUS express post & packaging - $25 small parcel, $35 large parcel. Local pickup available.

03/07/2020

18/04/2020

🐣🐣🐣 CARING FOR YOUR NEW CHICKS 🐥🐥🐥

It is not difficult to successfully rear young chicks to laying hens if you take care to provide the correct feed and environment. Your set-up can be as simple as a plastic storage tub with a spotlight right through to an aluminium custom-made brooder box with heat lamps. The internet contains a wealth of information and practical good ideas for raising chicks at home.

🐥🐥🐥 BROODER BOXES 🐥🐥🐥

In nature, young chicks rely heavily on their mother for warmth until they lose their down and develop adult feathers at about 6 weeks of age. If you are rearing chicks in a brooder box, you will need to use a thermometer for the first week or so to ensure that the temperature at chick height close to the heat source is 33 degrees C. You will know your chicks are too cold if they huddle together close to the light, and too hot if they spread out, far from the heat source, with wings held away from their bodies.

Days 1 – 3 33°C
Days 4 - 6 32°C
Days 7 – 13 30°C
Days 14 – 20 26°C
Days 21 – 27 22°C
Days 28 – 35 20°C
Thereafter 20°C at night as required

Your brooder box should have shavings, cane mulch or paper towel on the floor so that it is easy to clean out regularly. Use paper towel over the shavings for the first 4 or 5 days so that chicks don’t eat the bedding. The box itself should be easy to clean and disinfect in between batches of chicks.

Your heat source can be a simple old-fashioned light bulb or spot light (not halogen, fluorescent or energy saving) or you can buy a heat lamp from the reptile section of a pet shop. It needs to be mounted towards one end of the brooder box to allow chicks to move closer or further from the heat source in order to regulate their body temperature. If you are regularly rearing chicks you may be interested in buying a specialised heat mat or other form of non-light heat.


🐥🐥🐥 FEEDING AND WORMING 🐔🐔🐔

A messy bird feeder makes a cheap, ideal container for feeding young chicks. As they mature and require more food, poultry feeders of various sizes are a good idea.

Water containers for young chicks should be shallow and narrow so that chicks cannot fall in and drown. A plastic butter container cut to 1.5cm high with pebbles placed in the bottom also makes a good water container for young chicks. Older birds can drink from any clean container and there are many balloon style waterers which store a few days worth of water at a time.

🐣🐣 Day 1 Dip beaks into water as chicks enter brooder, provide access to chick starter food on paper towel on floor and in messy bird feeder, provide fresh water in shallow dish.
🐥🐥Week 1 – 6 Feed Chick Starter crumble in shallow tray and spread on kitchen paper for 2-3 days. Provide water in shallow dish.
🐤 Week 6 – 18 Feed 16% protein Pullet Grower crumble. Adding Farmalogic Fancy Feathers to the food can boost bird immunity, fertility and bone strength.
🐤 Week 7 – Wormer
🐤 Week 17 – Wormer
🐔 Week 18+ Feed Layer mash or Layer pellet (initially mixing with Pullet Grower and increasing proportion of Layer feed), scratch grain & house scraps.

✅Bantams do not cope well with large size pellets. Choose pellets about the size of a grain of wheat.
✅Sprinkle Farmalogic Rejuvenate probiotic powder over chicks feed to boost immunity and aid in gut development.
✅Provide fine shell grit in a separate container.
✅Always provide adequate clean, fresh water.
✅Laying starts from 24 – 30 weeks depending on breed and time of year.
✅Worm every 3-6 months or change of season.

🐔 WHERE CAN I BUY FARMALOGIC PRODUCTS? 🐔
Farmalogic Rejuvenate and Fancy Feathers are available through pet and produce stores throughout Australia and New Zealand. Ask for Farmalogic products wherever good bird and poultry feeds are sold!

Message us or visit www.farmalogicglobal.com for more information.

14/04/2020

Seems like a lot of people are getting into chickens atm! Here's a free guide to chicken care.

🐔Are you new to owning poultry?
🐓Looking for a basic guide to caring for backyard chickens? This short article will help get you started with a short list of daily, weekly and monthly tasks.🌈

🐤Welcome to the wonderful world of backyard chickens! You're likely to find that beyond the joys of eating delicious eggs, the act of caring for and simply watching your own backyard flock a satisfying and enjoyable experience. The therapeutic benefits of being around chickens are scientifically proven, and 'chicken therapy' is used as a powerful tool for those suffering from anxiety, depression, isolation, loneliness and dementia.🐥

1️⃣GETTING STARTED
Before you purchase your birds, you will need to set up a chicken house with perches, nesting boxes and a dog and fox-proof run. Put clean straw or wood shavings into the nesting boxes to encourage hens to lay.

The size of the house and run will depend on how many hens you want to keep, and whether they will be confined to the pen all the time. If you're planning to let your hens free-range in your back yard you may only need a hen house with a small area for the birds to move in until you let them out in the morning. Chicken "tractors" are portable coops with a run that allow you to provide your flock with fresh grass every few days.

If you are starting with chicks under heat, you will need a clean box with a heat source such as a desk lamp or heat mat until they are fully feathered and ready to move into their chicken coop.

Your new chickens will need a water container and age-appropriate food (chick starter/pullet grower for growing birds, layer pellets or mash for mature hens). Choose a feed with added vitamins and minerals to meet the nutrient requirements of your birds. For example, laying hens have a much higher requirement for calcium than young growing birds. Chicken food can either be fed in a chicken feeder or sprinkled on clean grass each day.

2️⃣SETTLING YOUR FLOCK INTO THEIR NEW HOME
On the day you plan to collect your hens, fill the water container with fresh clean water and leave it in the shade. Put out some food ready for when the birds arrive. You can feed kitchen scraps to your hens, but avoid mouldy feeds, onions, avocados, chocolate and uncooked tomatoes and potatoes.

Add some probiotics to the feed for the first week while your hens are settling in to help keep your new birds healthy following the move.

The live yeast contained in Farmalogic Rejuvenate is proven to reduce the impact of stress on gut health, gives hens better resistance to disease, helps them to lay more eggs with thicker shell and keeps your hen house cleaner with drier manure and less odour.

When you first bring your new birds home, leave them locked in the coop for the first week until they settle in. If you are planning to free-range, let them out about an hour before sunset on their 7th and 8th day at home. After this you should be able to let them out every morning and they will come home to roost before dark.

3️⃣DAILY TASKS
✅Check that your birds have fresh water and clean food every morning when you let them out of their coop.
✅Adding Farmalogic Fancy Feathers to the food can boost bird immunity, fertility and bone strength.
✅Fancy Feathers also allows you to produce omega-3 enriched eggs to provide even more health benefits to your family!
✅Collect eggs every afternoon, and mark the date with a pencil on each egg. Eggs left in the nest will become dirty and encourage hens to go broody.
✅Eggs store safely (pointy side down) for a few weeks if kept in the fridge.
✅Always lock your birds into the coop overnight to keep them safe from predators.
✅If you go on holidays, ask a friend to call in at least once a day to check and feed your hens and collect eggs.

4️⃣MONTHLY TASKS
🐔Remove the nesting box straw or shavings and replace with fresh material.
🐔Remove the manure from under the perches. This task may need to be carried out each week in smaller coops. Removable trays or old feed bags can help make manure removal simpler.
🐔If your coop is fixed, rake up and remove manure from the floor of the shed and run.
🌹Poultry manure makes an excellent addition to the compost bin as it contains all 13 of the essential plant nutrients used by plants. These include nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), sulfur (S), manganese (Mn), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), chlorine (Cl), boron (B), iron (Fe), and molybdenum (Mo).🥦🌽🥕

5️⃣SEASONAL TASKS
☘️🍁In spring and autumn completely clean coop and treat all timber including nesting boxes and perches with a broad spectrum residual insecticide such as 'Coopex' to prevent mite infestation.
🐛Worm the flock and move onto clean ground (or thoroughly clean out fixed coops) every 3 to 6 months.
🍂During autumn when your hens moult, they may need extra protein to support feather and reproductive system regeneration. Farmalogic Fancy Feathers is a very concentrated source of protein (30%) fortified with antioxidants to support chicken health and nutrition during the moulting process.

6️⃣WHAT IF THEY LOOK SICK?
🐔Hens should be bright and alert, with a good appetite. If you notice signs of lethargy, sneezing, discharge or diarrhoea your poultry need veterinary attention.

✅We recommend adding Farmalogic Rejuvenate probiotics to the feed if your birds are sick, stressed or on antibiotics.

🦚Farmalogic Fancy Feathers is rich in antioxidants and anti-inflammatory omega-3 oils which can boost the immune system and provide additional support during treatment of sick birds.

😊Hens can sometimes look very strange but still be healthy when they're sunbaking or have gone broody. A sunbaking bird should get up and look normal again very quickly if disturbed. A clucky or broody hen will sit in the nest all day with her feathers fluffed up, wanting to hatch some eggs, and she will probably peck at you if you try to pick her up. Broody hens often lose breast feathers to enable them to keep eggs at the right temperature and humidity to develop chicks.

🐥🐣🐥If you want to hatch some chicks, buy some fertile eggs (or use your own if you keep a rooster in your flock), move your hen to a private nest away from the flock, slip the eggs into the nest and provide your hen food and water for 19 to 21 days. When the chicks hatch feed them with chick starter food and water in a shallow dish.

🐤Traditional breeds, especially bantams, go broody more regularly than commercially bred hybrid strains.

❓WHERE CAN I BUY FARMALOGIC PRODUCTS?
Farmalogic Rejuvenate and Fancy Feathers are available through pet and produce stores throughout Australia and New Zealand. Ask for Farmalogic products wherever good bird and poultry feeds are sold!

Message us or visit www.farmalogicglobal.com for more information.

10/04/2020

Omega-3 fatty acids are a vital part of your immune system, helping to regulate inflammation as well as being important for skin, heart and respiratory processes.

Boost your family's omega-3 fatty acid levels by producing your own DHA-enhanced eggs by sprinkling some Farmalogic Fancy Feathers on your hen's regular feed! It's good for the hens too!

All Farmalogic products including Fancy Feathers can be purchased from hundreds of stock feed stores and online retailers around Australia who buy from the distributors AIRR, Eastern Distributor and Nature's Harvest. Please let us know if your shop doesn't stock Farmalogic and needs help ordering it in for you.

24/03/2020

Support your flock's health with Fancy Feathers supplement!

Farmalogic Fancy Feathers helps keep your flock in optimum health by providing the omega-3 and antioxidant levels not included in normal layer pellets or grain mixes. Suitable for backyard and exhibition poultry, caged birds and racing pigeons.

As an added bonus, hens supplemented with omega-3 DHA lay eggs enriched with this essential fatty acid - which means better health for you and your family!

Scientific research has proven that the omega-3s, antioxidants and prebiotics in Farmalogic Fancy Feathers can:
• improve fertility
• Increase hatch rates
• improve antioxidant status
• boost the immune system
• increase resistance to heat and environmental stress.

Feed daily during showing, laying, breeding, illness, moulting and in hot conditions.

Available through pet and produce stores throughout Australia and New Zealand. Ask for Farmalogic Fancy Feathers wherever good bird and poultry feeds are sold!
For more information visit www.farmalogicglobal.com/farm

12/02/2020

We use Fancy Feathers to improve hatch rates and general health of our entire flock. As a bonus the eggs we keep to eat are providing essential omega-3s to keep our family healthy too!

All Farmalogic products can be purchased from hundreds of stock feed stores and online retailers around Australia who buy from the distributors AIRR, Eastern Distributor and Nature's Harvest. Please let us know if your shop doesn't stock Farmalogic and needs help ordering it in for you.

Farmalogic is also sold in New Zealand through produce stores and saddleries who buy from Lathwell Equine Services (Tel 021 133 0417).
Message us to find out more or visit www.farmalogicglobal.com.

09/02/2020

🌧⛈Loving the rain, but have your chook pens turned to slop? 🐔

20/12/2019

Ha ha....

TGIF!

12/12/2019

Heat stress is a big problem during an Australian summer! Read here for practical tips on helping your flock through summer.

PROTECT YOUR FLOCK FROM HEAT STRESS

Scientific studies have confirmed that heat stress in poultry decreases feed consumption and egg production. Heat stress causes hormonal imbalances that negatively impact on fertility and immune system function.

At a cellular level, heat stress causes an increase in the production of excessive free radicals in the body leading to a condition known as 'oxidative stress.' At low levels, free radicals play an important role in cellular signaling but at high levels, free radicals cause damage at a molecular and cellular level because they chemically interact and destroy proteins, fats and DNA.

Oxidative stress occurs in the body when the number of detrimental free radicals becomes too high for the natural antioxidant defence system to detoxify their harmful effects through neutralization. The role of antioxidants in the body is to neutralise free radicals by converting them into stable molecules.

Essential management strategies to keep birds cooler on hot days include:
🌞 Access to shade, preferably from trees
🌞 Ensure clean water stays cool all day by adding ice
🌞 Create evaporative cooling by hanging wet towels
🌞 Set up misting sprays
🌞 Offer snacks of frozen peas, corn and carrots.

Owners can protect and improve the health of birds at risk of oxidative stress by supplementing diets with additional antioxidants.

Antioxidants are specific vitamins, minerals and enzymes including:
✅ Vitamins E and C
✅ Selenium
✅ Superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase
✅ Flavenoids, glutathione, lipoic acid and polyphenols.

Antioxidants are most effective when they are able to work together, so ensuring your birds have balanced levels of antioxidants contributes to better health. It is interesting to note that the optimal level of supplementation for some antioxidants is many times higher than the recommended daily minimum amounts.

Farmalogic Fancy Feathers contains vitamin C and natural-sourced vitamin E along with organic selenium and a natural, plant-derived source of superoxide dismutase, proven to increase the antioxidant status. This powerful, balanced blend of antioxidants combined with the anti-inflammatory affect of omega-3 fatty acids makes Farmalogic Fancy Feathers a must-have supplement for backyard poultry flocks during the summer heat.

Ask for Farmalogic Fancy Feathers wherever good stock feeds are sold! Message us to find out more, or visit www.farmalogicglobal.com.

11/12/2019

It's Friday again! What are you doing this weekend?

12/11/2019

Farmalogic Rejuvenate contains a combination of live yeast probiotics, yeast cell wall products, nutribionic microfibres and zeolites scientifically proven to:
✅ Improve feed utilisation
✅ Improve egg production & shell thickness
✅ Stabilize gut flora and lower pathogenic pressure
✅ Improve gut barrier function
✅ Enhance health and performance
✅ Reduce litter moisture and odour
✅ Stimulate and support the immune system
✅ Bind and neutralise mycotoxins
✅ Enhance food safety
✅ Improve resistance to stress and environmental sanitary challenges.

Directions for Use in Poultry:
Add daily to feed: Add 1 scoop (30g) Farmalogic Rejuvenate per 1 kg of food and mix thoroughly. For best results add to slightly damp feed just before serving. Increase to 2 scoops per 1 kg of feed during times of stress such as crowded pens, hot conditions, showing, moulting or disease challenge.

Ask your local produce or feed store to order in Farmalogic Rejuvenate from the distributors AIRR, Eastern Distributors or Nature's Harvest. Find out more at https://farmalogicglobal.com/farmalogic-farm/rejuvenate-farm/

07/11/2019

I have some really nice blue, black and splash young silkie roosters available. $10 each

07/11/2019

4 silkie hens available. $60 each

10/10/2019

This is something we do - it improves the fertility of our eggs, how well they store AND increases the omega-3 level of our family's diet which means better nutrition! Yay.

07/07/2019

A little bit of cuteness for your Sunday 🐣

05/07/2019

Blue, black and splash silkie roosters, 6 months old. $10 each.

05/07/2019

Bantam Wyandotte roosters, 6 months old, $10 ea.

08/06/2019

07/06/2019

🐓Bring out your show-bird's inner peacock!!🦚

Supplementing poultry with the three omega-3 fatty acids (ALA, DHA & EPA) is scientifically proven to:
🦚Produce Omega-3 enriched eggs & meat
🦚 Boost fertility
🦚 Improve growth rate and bone strength
🦚Enhance immune system function
🦚 Maintain normal respiratory health.

Farmalogic Omega Balancer is a highly stable omega-3 supplement rich in ALA, EPA and DHA from algal, fish and plant sources for a natural show-shine from the inside-out. Marine-sourced DHA has been linked to promising results in animal growth, fertility, immunity and bone strength in poultry.

Directions for use:
Add 20 - 50 g per 1 kg of feed.

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FOR A LIMITED TIME, 🔥🔥SAVE $15 💥💥off the price of Farmalogic Omega Balancer 2.8 kg at www.farmalogicglobal.com.

Offer ends 10/6/19.

19/05/2019

Prebiotics and Probiotics for use in Poultry diets - give your chicks a kick start to life!

Farmalogic Rejuvenate contains a combination of live yeast probiotics, yeast cell wall products, nutribionic microfibres and zeolites scientifically proven to:
* Improve feed utilisation
* Stabilize gut flora and lower pathogenic pressure
* Improve gut barrier function
* Enhance health and performance
* Reduce litter moisture and odour
* Stimulate and support the immune system
* Bind and neutralise mycotoxins
* Enhance food safety
* Improved resistance to stress and environmental sanitary challenges.

Directions for Use:
Add daily to feed: Add 1 scoop Rejuvenate per 1 kg of food and mix thoroughly. For best results add to slightly damp feed just before serving. Increase to 2 scoops per 1 kg of feed during times of stress. Spoon included in pack holds 30 g.

Ask for Farmalogic Rejuvenate wherever good stockfeeds and supplement are sold. For more information visit https://farmalogicglobal.com/farmalogic-farm.

15/04/2019

Being able to control egg quality through nutrition of your own birds is a great reason to keep your own chooks!

Backyard Layers can Improve your Health!

There is now an easier, more affordable way for you to increase your Omega-3 intake – and it doesn’t require taking fish oil supplements in capsule form. It's as simple as adding Farmalogic Omega Balancer to your layer food each day. Research clearly demonstrates that feeding marine-sourced Omega-3 fatty acids to hens improves the DHA content of eggs.

Eating your flock's DHA-enriched eggs will allow your family to boost brain, eye and heart health by doing something as simple as eating eggs!

Find out more at https://farmalogicglobal.com/farmalogic-farm/omega-balancer-farm

04/04/2019

Here's one for all chicken lovers (and lovers of bad jokes!).

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Please comment. Let's see how many answers we can find.
Pic credit: www.paradoxoftheday.com