Growing Food and Animal Husbandry, Including Pics!

[Nuytsia]

Oh no!
You poor thing!
How could they forget??? Geeeeeees, poor lil chickies.

Hey guess what we almost had a chicken disaster of our own.
We put them down with our fruit trees (inside the 'possum proof' (hahah) fence) for the day.... it's not far from our house and you can see them from the window ..... but we had the curtain closed on one of the windows that you can see half of the enclosure from (as it was SO COLD and we had the heater on) .... anyhoo I glanced out the window with curtains open and saw they weren't in that half of the enclosure and so i said hmm wonder what the chooks are doing, so i got up and ambled over to the other window, opened the curtain and THERE's the WEDGETAIL EAGLE sitting on our driveway eyeballing the chooks through the fence about 3 metres away!! I think I screamed and I banged on the window and the eagle flew off straight away. SOOOO CLOSE! Of course we went down and brought them out of that area straight away!!! (their normal pen isn't that much closer to the house but it has tree cover overhead and they can hide in their coop or nesting area)

I must have some special sixth sense ..... "I sense a chicken in danger somewhere!!"