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Mitchell’s Passion for Poultry Shows

Mitchell is heavily involved in poultry shows, we recently asked him what he liked about them and what challenges he typically faced with competitions.

How to do a Weekly Coop Clean

Coop hygiene is imperative for keeping chickens and other poultry healthy. We recommend cleaning your coop once a week and do a more thorough clean monthly. A weekly coop clean is as easy as following these steps.

Readying the Roost

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.

Rain, Wind and Cold: Caring for Your Chickens During Winter

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…

Applications Now Open for Barastoc Poultry Junior Scholarship Program!

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.

How Well Do You Know Chicken Anatomy?

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.

Achieving Yellow Legs in Show Birds

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!

Preparing your Chickens for Winter

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.

Keeping our Poultry Warm in Winter

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

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…

Show Preparation

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.

Finally a New Roof on the Breeding Pens

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.

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