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Post by Fractus on Feb 28, 2015 11:44:34 GMT 10
www.wagnerspoultry.com.au/stock.htmMay be what you need mainly egg layers but they sell day old roosters for 70 cents the Australorpe New Hampshire cross males should make a dandy meat bird and cheap as chips at 70 cents. May get some myself when the silver lace go broody
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Post by Fractus on Feb 28, 2015 8:43:55 GMT 10
My own fault..... I had a chook drown yesterday. My troughs are used by geese as well. (1st) mistake. They splash out lots of water and foul it quickly. The lower level made it hard for the chook to get out when it fell in. I am going to change it now but a bit late for the poor chook. Worm tablet stuffed down its throat last week and drowned this week.
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Post by Fractus on Feb 27, 2015 13:38:23 GMT 10
None as I built this and bought that   I used it for the geese ealy on to protect them from magpies etc. the first of that design had a brood box on the non door end and some wheels to move it, but this one was a budget model. |
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Post by Fractus on Feb 26, 2015 11:25:36 GMT 10
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Post by Fractus on Feb 26, 2015 11:24:21 GMT 10
Not as good or fancy as yours but very cheap   |
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Post by Fractus on Feb 25, 2015 20:44:10 GMT 10
Are you going to breed they yourself as a plan or continue to purchase. Only curious as I can't help. I have a duel purpose bird that will be eatable and broody for hatching my broodinessless egg layers. Plus the boss loves the look of them. Silver laced Wyandotte. Probably better birds out there but she who rules, rules strongly. Intending to develop the birds more, will be incubating ducks for pets (eating) next spring. Pets are easy to catch  |
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Post by Fractus on Feb 23, 2015 16:01:48 GMT 10
About 12 months ago I developed an infection centred around my liver. Every single symptom for Hep A I presented with. I had numerous blood tests, scans, X-RAYS, even an MRI. They even checked if I had picked up something from our new rescue cat. After many months, I slowly had my liver levels return to normal. He even tested me for liver cancer. I'm all fine now, except I get bouts of feeling bone tired and that can last a day and the next day I'm fine. You just never know and although I always check the country of origin especially after seeing Dick Smith hold up a bottle of asparagus with bugs floating in it, something like frozen berries from a reputable brand would not be on my radar. But it will now. I've been buying SPC tinned fruit for our stores and I looked carefully over the tin I picked up the other day. The cherries and pineapple in the fruit salad was imported. I might go back and order the Austbuy booklet for Aussie food growers. Last time it was out of stock and until now I had forgotten about it. I believe they were trying to develop an App. too. PLEASE NOTE! Ausbuy now have an app. You can download it from their website or thru the Apps Store. www.ausbuy.com.au/Many years ago I had the similar symptoms. Many blood tests revealed nothing but when I told the doc how sick I felt when I had a beer. They re-looked and said I had glandular fever. Not sure why they could not tell initially. |
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Post by Fractus on Feb 23, 2015 15:58:13 GMT 10
I will never look at deep fried chinese food the same. I don't want to believe it. It is so disgusting.
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Post by Fractus on Feb 22, 2015 20:37:14 GMT 10
These are a very hot rocotto or manzano or tree chilli. They are perennial and tolerate melbourne climates fine. The tree I have is couple of years old and was transplanted last year. They are very hardy. We are going to dry them and use them as crushed or powder so we can control the heat better. They burn even after you thoughly wash your hands so wear gloves (lesson I learned the hard way) and they are one of the earliest cultivated chillis. www.rocoto.comI am happy to send off a few seeds to anyone that wants some ( as long as it is not everyone). Just pm me   |
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Post by Fractus on Feb 19, 2015 7:12:38 GMT 10
I had to order some more organic heirloom seeds because I can't find my others ones *sob* I had so many good ones  I've got a bunch of the usuals, but this'll be my first time growing corn, so FC we get some good ones Diggers in Victoria has a large range of heirloom seeds and post them out. diggers.com.au |
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Post by Fractus on Feb 16, 2015 17:31:07 GMT 10
My jalapeño harvest in the process of pickling. Got about 2 kgs and that was after the geese had eaten them to the ground when they were just seedlings  |
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Post by Fractus on Feb 16, 2015 16:29:42 GMT 10
Beekeeping has been around so long and yet it is still done like it was Years ago. This is really interesting stuff. Might have to dust of the bee suit and hive boxes.
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Post by Fractus on Feb 15, 2015 7:53:45 GMT 10
What ever you use must be removable very quickly in a fire emergency, or there will be a supply of cooked long pork for the thieves.
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Post by Fractus on Feb 12, 2015 16:42:47 GMT 10
I like the Aldi brand, and have had a few random ones from NQR, basically it is a mylar bag filled with pre cooked reice, requiring you to only heat it back up, cannot beat that for convenience. The plain rice packets from aldi are not certified. The flavoured type are halal certified.   |
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Post by Fractus on Feb 12, 2015 13:23:50 GMT 10
We have mains and a tank. Plus some smaller 200 ltr drums.
The tank looks half buried but recently when I pumped it dry very quickly I found that it is not buried, it is a squat tank and only half capacity I thought. We will put a tank on the shed when some $$ are gathered from our money tree. It is a great tree called a quantitive easing tree, native to Europe and usa. Being a deciduous tree the green fall off it in autumn. It has nuts also that taste like banana republic
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Post by Fractus on Feb 11, 2015 20:58:42 GMT 10
fractus we hear what you say about honey and would like to use more of it and if I had more time I would see about putting a couple of hives in. You have to be very careful about some of the no brand honey on the market as much of it has never been near a bee as it is made from a concoction of corn syrup and other items and much of it is imported from China. frostbite if you could let me know where your water supply is I will hook it up to the ute and bring it to our place. Yeah bees are a commitment equal to any livestock. I still have my gear plus previous experience and could catch a feral hive if required but to many other projects and skill development are on the go. My biggest harvest was 90 kg in one weekend. We worked like heck all weekend for it. It was great to see all of it on the kitchen table. If you have plenty of nectar trees you could contact a local bee keeping club and offer to let them on you land for a small harvest fee. Plus you could watch and learn from them. Beekeepers love nothing more than talking about their bees. |
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Post by Fractus on Feb 11, 2015 15:21:19 GMT 10
Apologies in advance - but I really can't resist this one... Your bravery never ceases to amaze me. |
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Post by Fractus on Feb 11, 2015 13:15:45 GMT 10
Oops
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Post by Fractus on Feb 11, 2015 13:15:08 GMT 10
 My better half uses a vacuum breaking device. |
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Post by Fractus on Feb 11, 2015 13:11:26 GMT 10
The egg in tube is not that fresh. The fresher the egg the harder to peel. Stale egg shell nealy fall off. We hardly ever try to peel hard boiled eggs that are really fresh ( today or yesterday) . Tho very fresh eggs poach superbly. Like a chef.
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I've got a bunch of the usuals, but this'll be my first time growing corn, so FC we get some good ones 
