Want your chickens to be the healthiest and happiest they can be? I offer backyard chicken workshops
03/09/2025
“Can you bring a chook into the studio?”
Omg YES!! No scripts or pre-questions 😅 - these guys are amazing!🐓✨ Thanks to Tom, Lingy & Loggy (esp. Loggy☺️) for having me this morning to talk chooks!
The next Geelong workshop is set for 18 October 2025, details on my website. ~Elise
21/08/2025
Special thanks to Geelong Advertiser for the story 🐓💕. If you’re in Geelong, I’m running a Backyard Chickens Beyond The Basics workshop on Saturday 18 October at Eastern Hub and online 🌏 Sunday 21 September. ~Elise
19/08/2025
👋🏻Elise here.
🐓🌱🌻I’ve finally opened the doors to A-Z Natural Chicken Care online course & coaching program!
If you’ve had chicken problems (health, parasites, behaviour etc) or you’re new to chooks, I’ve got you.
For experienced owners wanting to advance their knowledge of modern and natural ways of doing things, I’ll be revealing the secrets of old-school natural poultry keepers and breaking everything down so that it’s practical and easy.
And the best part? You get access to me for 12 months through our online community and group Zoom calls.
Natural preventative health, reducing stress and excellent husbandry is critical for healthy, happy chickens.
🐓👉LIVE 8-week round of the course starts on Wednesday September 2025! 7pm Wednesday night for 8 weeks. Recordings available for 12 months.
So join me for A-Z Natural Chicken Care and let me help you to improve the health and happiness of your flock, naturally!
✨🐓Workshops are back, both in-person and online!🐓✨📣GEELONG! I’m running Backyard Chickens Beyond The Basics on at 10:00am Saturday 29 March 2025 at Eastern Hub. 🌏Then, I’m hosting the same workshop LIVE, ONLINE via Zoom at 10:00am Sunday 30 March 2025. All the details are at https://chickencoach.com/workshop Hope to see you there! ~Elise
Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Chicken Coach posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
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!