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Bringing food production home

Well yesterday was the day!!

Went over to the Riddells Creek Farmers Market and picked up some local chooks.
These came from the Emu Farm in Gisborne and had started laying over the past couple of days.

The new girls are 22 weeks old and are already settled in!!





All ready to head home!!

The Chook Mahal is finished enough to house the chooks...

The nesting box is nice and comfy


Plenty of comfy bedding to cover the coop floor that will become a nice addition to compost bin soon.


The nesting boxes with the lid open


perch


doorway to outside world

the chook diner... the water system is temporary as i will have a self feeding system setup soon


and from the other side


the chooks house prior to the chooks...


and from the other end

and the great escape!!




first three girls in!!


and the next three

checking out the new digs!!








and yes they love maggots!!!

we already have our first egg... and another two tonight!!

Your so neat!

Love your work IM.

That is a awesome coup, nice work. A layer box the same as yours (but only two berth) is pencilled in as an addition for ours but as we currently have no layers I have some breathing space for a while.

thanks fellas,

i reckon the nesting box that opens external to the run for ease of collecting!!

we've been flying through the eggs... 4-5 eggs a day including some big double yolkers!!

here is a video...FINALLY!!!!!!!

That is one awesome coop iceman. The boys did a great job of explaining the ins and outs of it. So you breed the crickets?

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Ben

Bender's Backyard
Bender's Aquaponics System

nah just bought a tub from the pet store