Forum: Breeding, Raising, Feeding and Caring for Animals

With Stingless Bees becoming more popular in Australia, has anyone else started keeping them? Are you harvesting honey? I'm using mine as...

I am new to sheep breeding and I have Suffolk, last time one of my ewes lambed I had I only just noticed she was pregnant and then next week there...

OK, this is brilliant! It will solve (for me, at least) a bunch of issues with letting chooks "free-range" while getting them to areas in need of...

I am at my wits end, these lil buggers are nuts! :giggle: 3x a day I go and change the water for them because they all try to fit inside the water...

Hi all, I have seen black soldier fly larvae mentioned in a few threads on here, but would like some info from people who keep/have kept them on...

I have on order... 2 Buckeye - cold hardy, known to kill mice and rats. 2 Ameraucana - good egg layers 2 Cuckoo Marans - Chocolate eggers, great...

there has been a bit in the media here lately i think the end game is to supplament fish food they were saying they were worth 700$ tonne vs fish...

I live in a mountainous area (over 2000 feet and 20 miles inland) of a Caribbean island. The local kids are sometimes hunting crabs in the muddy...

Hi All, I have never kept chickens but am now considering doing so. I am intending to build a chicken tractor out of recycled materials. Plenty of...

We have eight Rhode Island Red chooks, free range, probably a few years old with rooster. Because of faxes they are fenced in but would have a...

I recently published a blog post with a detailed explantation of how I built this 6 bay nest box out of scrap wood. Click the link to read the...

I had no idea this was possible. I was just doing research into bamboo for my property when I came across this research that was conducted a few...

I love my Indian Runners, I really do, but boy are they neurotic. They spend each night in a large secure run where they have a paddling pool and...

On the long weekend we noticed one of our ISA browns was not well. She was a bit fluffed up, not foraging and lethargic. After a bit of...

Recently found an ad for spotted miniature sheep on www.tradingpost.com.au but the fellow had sold out. This fellow had bred a combination providing...

I am a building a greenhouse / chicken coop currently and am thinking of making a small side penned area but it has Wisteria growing in it. ...

This is an interesting website http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/medicinal/index.html My own experience is limited but i have seen Russian...

I have a couple of rams that got into the horse feed, they ended up with bloat. After a quick Internet search I ended up dosing them with baking soda...

I have a flock of 10 chickens, 9 hens plus 1 boy 1 18 month isa, 4 isa pullets, 2 white leg horns at POL, 2 young Australorp hens and one boy..........

Hi My white chicken has simply stopped? She's no more than a year old, goid varied diet, seems her usual fiesty self. I think she may be in...