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Caro9
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Best Chickens & Ducks Posted 892 days ago Hi Everyone,
We are in the process of building a chicken/vege garden compound and I am interested in what people think of the following chicken and duck breeds (I call it a compound as we have foxes, neighbours wandering cats & dogs, Little Eagles and even a visiting Wedge Tail Eagle pair that may harm the chickens plus there are rabbits, wallabys & kangaroos that may eat the vegies - please note that we are very happy to share our property with our native guests but not our animals or vegies).
We are looking at keeping a mixture of the following:
Ducks:
Silver Appleyard - a breeding pair
Chickens (hens only):
Australorp (blue colour)
Sussex
Wyandotte
Bantams (hens only):
Sebright
Pekin
Silkie
Any information is greatly appreciated.
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Caro
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Dogmooschooks
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RE: Best Chickens & Ducks Posted 882 days ago We have Isa Brown Chooks and they are the best layers of all. They lay everyday and on average their eggs weigh about 80 grams and the yolks are such a rich orange colour. Yum !!! |
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Caro9
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RE: Best Chickens & Ducks Posted 879 days ago Thanks DMC,
What do you feed your IB's to get such large eggs with the rich orange yolks? Or is that normal for them?
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