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28 November 2009, 13:02
BakesOh my bloody GOD.....
...I think Im becoming a hippy!

Im getting excited about the new house and building an edible garden (lots of fruit trees and vege's) I also want to breed chickens for meat and eggs and sheep/goats/cattle for meat etc (some quail and guinea fowl may make an apperance as well)
The word "permaculture" has slip into everyday use here and Im deaming of worm farms and the like.
Anyone else here grow their own food? raise their own meat? If so what do you grow and how have you set up your place.
I know its not hunting but hey...Its been slow here for awhile.

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28 November 2009, 13:11
muzzacarefull - you will turn into a sensitive new-age guy at this rate ....
You can keep ya bloody chickens or any other sort of poultry for that matter - the dirty bastards shit all round your doorways and dig all your vegetable plants out .
Growing beef is fine - until the kids give the critturs names then you arent allowed to kill the animal......and I dont think it would be wise for any aussie to own sheep.....

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28 November 2009, 23:15
Barracudawe started doing that with chicken but then the wife named them and now they are pet chickens ( 1 mean old rooster with one eye and some layers for eggs).
we only get eggs for a 1/3 of the year because we have such crappy weather here.
I love eating goats and lamb as does the wife but i have said NO as all that will happen will be the same bloody thing.
28 November 2009, 23:32
HendrikNZquote:
.and I dont think it would be wise for any aussie to own sheep.....

28 November 2009, 23:37
WeatheredGet some deer on your place then you can do this

This is not very hippy
28 November 2009, 23:47
shanksponyFor some reason, i get this picture of weatherd sitting on his front deck after a prolonged period of not going hunting, lining up deer with his rifle and making peow peow and rat-atat-tat noises.
Bakes, the hippy tendancy is only a worry if you take an interest in hydroponics.
29 November 2009, 02:58
BakesI did see a red deer hind in fawn for sale in saturdays paper. I thought about it but then I thought about the cost of fencing

Even if they do get names my little carnivores will have no problems in eating them. All chickens/roosters excess to demand will end up as olive python food anyway.
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Bakes, the hippy tendancy is only a worry if you take an interest in hydroponics.
Ahhh I have been looking into aquaponics once the house is set up

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29 November 2009, 03:35
TOP_PREDATORBakes sounds like you are turning into a earth muffin

"Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few." Sir Winston Churchill
29 November 2009, 12:41
Kamo Gariquote:
Originally posted by Bakes:
I did see a red deer hind in fawn for sale in saturdays paper. I thought about it but then I thought about the cost of fencing
Fencing? A hundred feet of stout chain and collar will suffice, and serve as evidence to all that your tie-dye garden freak stage is only temporary.

Cheers, and you're welcome.
KG
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29 November 2009, 22:58
gryphon1Hoy Bakesy I have an "earth maiden" friend that has some Mung Bean seeds for you and a few copies of GRASS ROOTS Magazine to throw in also.
Posts: 87 | Location: Victoria Australia | Registered: 07 September 2002
01 December 2009, 01:19
BakesI've actually been reading earth garden gryph.

Does anyone here/NZ (or in the the states for that matter) raise game birds?
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01 December 2009, 03:32
cleakyShanks is raising 400 odd pheasants at the moment ...
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01 December 2009, 05:02
FjoldWe raise a lot of our own vegetables here in the backyard. More for just because it has better flavor than the production farm stuff, instead of trying to be self sufficient though.
Top-Predator -
That's in the new house, not the one you visited me at.
Cleaky -
Nice to see you on another board that I frequent.
Frank
"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money."
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01 December 2009, 09:06
shanksponyYep, as Cleaky said, I'm rearing 400 right now.
This is what 400 day olds look like.
TP has some good pics of a few I released last year.
01 December 2009, 09:18
gryphon1you aint feedin` `em enuff if they look like that after 400 days cobber!
Bakesy take up organic home brewed beer mate,its a way better option and always a good excuse to get out to the shed "to check the brew"
Posts: 87 | Location: Victoria Australia | Registered: 07 September 2002
01 December 2009, 12:17
shanksponyDoh! No one said I had to feed em, I've just been sitting there clucking.
01 December 2009, 12:21
BakesCan't stand beer Gryph..... now home made bourbon is another matter.
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01 December 2009, 13:59
wirehuntShanks is the second person I've heard of today rearing them easy targets.
It's not to hard to do the garden thingy Bakes, our chickens arrive on Sunday so I've been informed

Hell you've got the chippies there, may as well get the chook house done at the same time as the kennels

Happy hunting
02 December 2009, 06:55
BakesOnly chook house being build is the one I have to make. Youngest son will help out of course.
Shanks, any special requirments for pheasant?
400 is a bit much but a couple would be ok. Something dofferent to add to the plate other than stock standard chicken.
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A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin. I said "How can you tell them apart?" He said "Her brother's got a moustache!"
02 December 2009, 07:09
shanksponyNot food or upkeep wise. Can't legally eat them from the pen around here as they belong too the crown, have to release them and shoot them flying in season.
02 December 2009, 15:44
BakesReally, what a stupid law. I thought we were over the whole "crown" bit these days.

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A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin. I said "How can you tell them apart?" He said "Her brother's got a moustache!"
03 December 2009, 00:46
Idaho SharpshooterBakes,
if you want to successfully breed chickens, get a couple roosters! Or a kiwi, I hear they'll do anything for a cold Fosters.
Rich
03 December 2009, 01:34
BakesMate....no one drinks Fosters but you yanks

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A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin. I said "How can you tell them apart?" He said "Her brother's got a moustache!"
03 December 2009, 07:05
gbangerBakes, I know you are a dog lover. I must warn you that poultry of any kind attracts stay dogs for miles around. You will face the uncomfortable truth that you will have to do something about it or lose your birds.
Gpopper
03 December 2009, 08:32
BakesThats all in hand mate. The house paddock will be fenced very well and the chooks will be locked up during the day. Any strays will have to contend with my dogs then me

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A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin. I said "How can you tell them apart?" He said "Her brother's got a moustache!"