GaryatGala wrote:
Great strong chook house FC.[emoji106] Envious lifestyle there. Country living with chooks, and working life as a award winning coffee roaster. Now to work on my Golden Bean home roasting entry.... All the best for this year if you,re competing. [emoji106]
Appreciate the kind words, yes they are (competing), and here's right back at you !
lukemc wrote:
How do the fowls go at chasing off snakes? We have just moved onto 35 acres near Ballarat... If the fowls are a good deterrent we may have to look into them.
Congrats on choosing a great lifestyle. Cant yet say how the fowl go with the snakes, because we only started with them at Christmas and they were only babies/chicks through the last season. They are now mature so we will see this season. Mind you we have a variety of anti snake "plans" happening at any one time, and some seasons are worse than others (for snakes), and you can never tell if anything actually worked or not just because you may not have seen too many snakes. Last season in our locality saw more snakes than we have seen for some years and this is probably due to the good season. I believe this year will be much worse because they will be very well bred up in greater numbers! But only time will tell. We lost several animals last year due to snake bite. Guinea fowl are said to gang up in numbers, on snakes, and kind of round them up and go them. The reality....? Regardless, they are real characters.
