Thankfully spring is just around the corner and its almost time to prepare our coops and chickens for the new season. Having chickens in your backyard is certainly a great way to get fresh eggs but it’s also really important to maintain their health with a clean coop.
Chilly nights, crisp mornings and afternoon showers – winter is definitely in full swing. While the wind and rain can be hard on your chickens, just like the natural world responds to the wetter weather with new forage, flowers and foliage, your chickens use winter as a change to reset…
At Barastoc, we put the chicken before the egg. As part of this philosophy we established the Barastoc Poultry Junior Scholarship Program (BPJS) to encourage the next generation of enthusiasts to develop and share their poultry husbandry skills and knowledge.
Tell us is 50 words or less what you think is the most important part of a chicken’s anatomy, and why. The three best answers will each receive 1 x 20kg bag of Barastoc Poultry Golden Yolk.
Our Victorian ambassador, Mitchell Carrigan-Walsh has a real passion for breeding birds and achieving the best example of a breed. One aspect of a prize winning bird will be its bright yellow legs!
Now that we have reached the cold winter months many may wonder how or what they need to do to keep their feathered friends warm and in good health. Here are a few insights and guidelines to help you support your flock from June through to August.
Everyone knows how cold it gets in Winter and we keep warm by a up outdoors or staying indoors with the fire going or having our heaters going. Our chickens don’t have that luxury so there are a few things that we do to help them through the cold winter…
The Rhode Island Red Bantam is one of Mitchell’s breeding specialities, “it’s a nice neat bird”. It’s one of the breeds he takes to poultry shows. They are considered a ‘Heavy breed soft feather’. Visually they are a very broad bird – they have a broad chest, their body should…
With show season underway I am going to show step by step how we prepare our Pekins for a show. Everyone has their own way of doing this, this is just how I do it. Before beginning I get everything out and ready that we need.
When I bought the pens they were disassembled and when my Dad and Uncle Mark put the roof on things didn’t line up like they obviously did when they were originally built.
Well here we are mid-way through Summer and the temperatures are scorching. I know we are all doing our best to keep our chooks cool. A few years ago when we first moved to Tamworth we were struggling with the heat …
As I finish up my breeding season, I thought I would write a quick article about what I do when I am incubating and hatching. I would like to note that everyone has their own ways that work so what I am about to write is purely a brief summary…
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