Hi all,
Good to see you guys at BYAP franchising your well developed and designed concept out to more than just AP - good work, I like the layout and groupings of this forum.
Anyway - I have been a long time member of BYAP and tried and expanded on several systems along with what ever earth gardening I could get hands on over the last few years. However now I am starting afresh on a new property, several acres, at the base of the foothills in the Swan Valley WA. I am yet to put the AP back together, but I have so far built a second chicken coup this time more fox unfriendly - I lost 4 Isa browns in the first week. We now have 2 Isa's, 2 Arucuana ( I think) and 4 Wyndottes (3 gold, 1 silver(rooster)) - all living happily in their electric chicken wire mansion. I would be keen to see pictures of how other people feed and water their chooks - whatever I try just doesn't seem to be that good of a solution. However today I hope to receive a small commercial water - so will see how that goes.
We currently live in a 1930's hot box, nice 12m single brick wall facing directly north with no eaves, ie full sun all day everyday. The last couple of weeks have been pretty ordinary with upwards of 38 degrees inside the house at 8pm. So we are starting the process of building something that will be more in tune with the environment that we live in. We are looking at all things sustainable - however the cost sometimes is just rediculous so we are happy to see and hear from other people's experience. A Blackwater system would have been great however we already a massive septic and leach drain system (less than 2yrs old) so outside of blackwater everything else is up for discussion.
An issue we are facing is the very strong easterly wind that comes through in the mornings throughout summer - I would be keen to hear from some of the other people in the hills about what sort of wind breaks they have put in.
That should be enough - I will have to get some chicken pictures into the poultry folder.
Jim
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