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Funky Chicken Farm Resource

Book Book Book (12 May 2008)

Chicken Choosing: The new tenants arrive in the playhouse... sorry, the chicken coop. (duration: 12′45″); Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3

We drove an hour up the coast to a poultry farm to score 6 chickens. Darcy had arranged the deal with the farmer, Ron. Here's a shot of where the birds had been living for the last few months (they're about 20 weeks old).

Rows of hens in an indoor battery.

The two kids check out the chickens.

They were packed 3 birds to the box and loaded into the van for the drive back to the Funky Chicken Farm. The kids were very excited, but concerned that we wouldn't be able to tell the chickens apart.

A book about Backyard Poultry. Chickens in a cardboard box.

Here's Darcy

Checking the birds and releasing them into their new home.

Darcy checks the chickens. Chickens in the coop.

Here's more

And part 3

Index

Simon is an egg.

Welcome to our Funky Chicken Farm resource page.

We set up a backyard chicken coop and leisure area by converting an old playhouse into a coop, whacked a few warratahs around, attached some chicken wire and bought 6 highlay birds from a battery chicken farm. It's our way of fighting back against rising food costs.