Community Garden Open Day

The local Community Garden had a public open day on Saturday

2nd December. Lydia and Gerard went along to check it out.

There was a kangaroo sculpture at the entrance made of recycled materials.

The chicken pen.

Can you see some hens standing at the pen door?

Inside the chicken coop.

Chickens are curious creatures.

The hens are different breeds. There's a total of 10 hens.

Speeches from hard working Community Garden volunteer Lilian (left)

and the local Member of Parliament Ali (right) who helped fund the project.

 Reverend Dr. Smith (left) did a blessing of the chickens,

giving thanks for Community Gardens.

 Reverend Dr. Smith held up the prayer she read out.

Thank you, God, for Community Gardens.

Lilian held up the new sign naming the chicken pen 'Karlkurla Rise'.

Ali and Lilian cut the ribbon and officially open the chicken coop.

Gerard loves this sign!

Barbeque Chicken

Coco was broody during the warmer spring month of October.

She was very clucky and flighty whilst broody.

Here you see her fluffed up sitting on a barbeque.

Coco is a barbeque chicken! LOL!

 

Knock, Knock, Who's There?

Lexi stands at the front door by herself.

We have visitors!   

Lexi sits down whilst Coco looks through the door.

Frenchy is in the background and Speckles is

standing on the left preening under her wing.

Now Frenchy looks though the middle of the door whilst Coco turns away.

Lexi chills out sitting on the doormat. Speckles looks on from the left.

Is anybody going to answer the door?

Winter Sunbathing

From left to right: Coco, Lexi and Speckles soak up the winter sun.

Speckles and Coco kick back and relax in the sun on a Sunday afternoon.

Coco loves sunbathing.

Frenchy also loves sunbathing.

In the Greenery and Dirt

Speckles stands in the sun on a Sunday afternoon.

Speckles amongst the greenery.

Frenchy stands in the greenery.

Frenchy eats the weeds. 

Frenchy has a big white fluffy butt.

Lexi stands next to the A-frame coop.

Lexi in the greenery.

About a metre away, Coco has a dirt bath by herself.

Coco is very dirty and relaxed.

Coco finishes her dirt bath with a big body shake.

Dirt flies everwhere!

Easter Memories

Speckles looks cute sitting in the nesting box on Good Friday.

Speckles gets ready to lay an egg.

Yay! Speckles laid a real Easter egg, and she left behind a few feathers as well.

After laying an egg, Speckles has a drink of water from the feeding station.

Speckles looks for the other hens.

The 4 hens hang out at Easter. From left to right:

Speckles, Frenchy, Lexi and Coco.

What's that noise?

Lexi stands tall as the hens are on alert.

We hope your Easter was enjoyable.

Momo Meets Coco and Co.

Our new Japanese friend Momo came to

visit our regional town for a few months.

Momo enjoyed meeting the 4 happy hens.

Momo hand feeds Lexi, Speckles and Frenchy lettuce at lunchtime.

Speckles loves eating lettuce out of Momo's hand.

Here comes Coco, the little grey hen.

Coco meets Momo.

The hens walk off. They've eaten enough lettuce.

Momo finds a brown egg laid by Speckles in the nesting box.

Bye Bye Bianco

Our bantam white leghorn hen named Bianco was bred on a farm in the

Western Australian town of Salmon Gums in late 2019.

Her bantam buff leghorn friend Buffy came to live with us at the same time.

Bianco and Buffy look very cute sitting in the nesting box together.

Bianco was going to be a poultry show bird, but she was sold to us to be our pet.

Shortly after Bianco moved to the Goldfields, the COVID pandemic stopped all

poultry shows and a fox devastated a majority of the flock on the farm in

Salmon Gums. Bianco and Buffy were lucky they were re-homed to be loved.

Bianco turned 3 years old last November and she was on the bottom

of the pecking order. Speckles (in the background) is the boss of the flock.

Bianco was a good egg layer. She laid about 5 small white eggs a week.

Bianco was an incredibly noisy hen.

Bianco was an extremely timid hen who ran fast like the roadrunner.

She ate a lot of food for a little hen because she burnt a lot of energy.

It took 2 years before Bianco would come close enough to Lydia to eat lettuce

out of her hand. Bianco was hard to take a photo of because she was so timid.

Bianco was very flighty which is typical of her breed.

Here she flies off the A-frame mobile coop whilst Buffy and Frenchy look on.

Lydia loves this photo of Bianco and Lexi.

Lexi is a full-size white leghorn hen and Bianco is a miniature version.

Bianco's nickname was 'LFC' = Little Fat Chicken and

Lexi's nickname is 'BFC' = Big Fat Chicken.

They became buddies after Buffy died.

Bianco started limping around lunchtime on 2nd March 2023.

The next morning, she was crawling around on her knees and couldn't

walk properly. We took Bianco to the vet for an emergency appointment.

She went downhill quickly and the vet suspected Marek's disease.

Lydia made the difficult decision for the vet to euthanise Bianco.

3rd March 2023 was a very sad day.

We will miss you Bianco.

May you be a happy hen forever.