Forum: Breeding, Raising, Feeding and Caring for Animals

I was wondering if anybody has any ideas on using plants or maybe herbs to worm a dog. I have a kelpie who absolutely hates worm tablets and seems to...

Help please! I have an established worm farm (it's a stackable type - a 'Can-o-Worms' if that makes a difference). We have been running it for...

Hi, I have 6 Isa Brown chickens who are approx 2.5 years old. They have always been healthy. Two afternoons ago I noticed one was lethargic and...

One of my chooks died and laverne is pretty lonely on her own. I haven't thought of this before, but are there any advantages or disadvantages of...

I'm looking at building a chicken tractor 6foot high 6 foot wide and 10 foot deep (1.8m x 1.8m x 3.0m). The whole cage will have a stock mesh plus...

I found my dog playing with a very angry brown snake a couple of days ago. After rushing to the vet to see if she'd been bitten or not (luckily not)...

I can't remember where this was mentioned before so I started a new thread. Finally I got hold of some Worming mix. I got a sample of about 100...

Hi, I just thought i'd duck in here (pardon the pun) and see if you guys had any ideas. I"ve been to the vet already but i'm not sure that what we're...

G'day friends, I have 2 chickens who are refusing to eat greens all of a sudden. Even with premium greens like butter lettuce, silverbeet etc....

So, you may have noticed a small absence of mine. Let's just say what could go wrong did in so many ways. The largest tragedy IMO was the loss of 3...

A young 12 year old in Australia just won a top science award for discovering that Chickens fed live worms lay bigger eggs. He discovered this after...

Hello all :) We are raising a lamb for a pet, and have had her for 3 days. The first day we got her, she did a small black hardish poo, and has not...

I'm trying to figure out how it might be possible in Australia to raise pigs with a minimum of off-farm feed inputs. That is, I want to utilise...

We have recently added 10 baby Chickens to our farm! We are very excited to feed them as naturally as possible....but are having a real hard time...

I have been reading Joel Salatin, and I have a sheep/cow farmer friend who swears by not feeding ruminants grain. On the other hand, everything I...

An especially interesting episode of this show (Thurs 26 July) Available on ABC 'Iview' for Ozzies and other means for those in different copyright...

Hi guys I'm trying to raise chickens (never done it before) in an orchard. It's an old plum orchard with 2 mulberries and a huge pear tree on 345...

Hi, I'm doing a design for a backpackers here in Walpole (very south of WA) and they're after some advice on chooks. THey want a breed that will...