What did you buy today ???

[Hooli]

Free range boxes? you don't see many people farming those these days.

[grog]

Im the same Irish. Next door has chooks, dog eats the chooks, snakes come, rats come.chooks get sick. Eggs in a package seem much easier to me.

[Irish in Oz]

Free range boxes? you don't see many people farming those these days.

Do you take yours home from the farm in your top box then have scrambled eggs.

[Hooli]

Free range boxes? you don't see many people farming those these days.

Do you take yours home from the farm in your top box then have scrambled eggs.

TBH I'm not much of an egg fan so don't buy them.

[Eric GSX1400K3]

Yep get a net mate. A mate nearly lost his Jack Russel to an eagle.
How you gonna deal with snakes?

I thought about making it mouse / snake proof, it's do-able but was going to be a lot of work and real expensive.

I don't get many pythons here, just Red Belly's and Eastern Browns. I'll try and make their coop secure and mouse proof, and not leave food or eggs around.

More concerned about the wild dogs, Dingo's and Fox's (and the birds of pray).

get some cats

[Eric GSX1400K3]

One of these https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/162171816295?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=705-154756-20017-0&ssspo=aMteZpsvRm6&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=_M0J_4k6R_O&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[Tony Nitrous]

Yep get a net mate. A mate nearly lost his Jack Russel to an eagle.
How you gonna deal with snakes?

I thought about making it mouse / snake proof, it's do-able but was going to be a lot of work and real expensive.

I don't get many pythons here, just Red Belly's and Eastern Browns. I'll try and make their coop secure and mouse proof, and not leave food or eggs around.

More concerned about the wild dogs, Dingo's and Fox's (and the birds of pray).

get some cats

Cats do a lot more harm than good here. A lot of rural folk hate them with a passion.  A mate up North was getting $10 for cats and $5 for kittens for shooting them, he shot a LOT. They are a real problem.  There was a push a while back to kill another 2,000,000.  I had cats in the UK. I won't have one on the place here. Too much vulnerable native wildlife that needs protecting from them.

[Tony Nitrous]

1 roll of chicken mesh.  1.2m x 50m.

1 roll of chicken mesh.  900mm x 50m.

6 x 900mm plant stakes.

2 x Lilly Pilly plants.

1 x Brocks billet clutch kit to remove the stock 2 piece Suzuki BTL that ruins aggressive hard launches. I really don't need a poor version of a slipper clutch, but I do need to stop the jolts and bucking from dead stop launches.

[Tony Nitrous]

Free Range Eggs ?

Some are. Some are more than others. It's pretty common to use tricks like stick several thousand hens in a shed and have a door leading to a couple of square metres outside. In theory a hen could go outside. There's a heap of similar ways around being able to claim free range. They change the laws and rules but most free range eggs couldn't be produced for the price in some idilic fairyland.

I like having hens, and a veggie garden, orchard etc. it's quite a bit of work, and rarely cost effective but it's a nice hobby, I find it very therapeutic and appreciate anything I can grow.

It suits me a lot better than being in the pub or watching TV.

Pricing up a few cattle next. 4 legged lawn mowers to end up on the grill.

[Eric GSX1400K3]

Free range is classified as having 10,000 chickens per hectare, or each hen having 1sq.m each....

[grog]

My neighbour exact same. 20 sq enclosure, 20 chooks. It gets more space as snakes get them, also a few just die. I like the shop option for eggs. Similar story, my wife feeds birds, we get some nice ones, also brings rats, mice, snakes.Not really a problem.

[Irish in Oz]

While I'm at the farm I grab a few duck eggs as well. The farmer is a good mate they are all free.

[Tony Nitrous]

Free range is classified as having 10,000 chickens per hectare, or each hen having 1sq.m each....

Yeah, that's part of it, but there's more to it than that, like access to an outdoor area, the time they spend outdoors and the size of the area etc, and the time they spend indoors more confined etc.
I've spent the last 60 years in a farming family, some farms are really good, but the label on the supermarket egg box isn't really a guarantee of how they all spend their days. Not every egg producer is as good as we'd hope they are.

[VladTepes]

Tony - How big is your block?  Needs to be quite big to legally use a rifle or shotty I think. But a little 410 would be handy.

[GSXKING]

Tony - How big is your block?  Needs to be quite big to legally use a rifle or shotty I think. But a little 410 would be handy.

Why does it have to be legal when he lives near hillbillies 😜😜