Eagle Point Crevecoeur Conservancy in Eagle Point, Victoria, Australia | Environmental conservation organisation

Eagle Point Crevecoeur Conservancy

Locality: Eagle Point, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 8414 2975

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24.01.2022 This week we have had some of the recent hatches of chicks be able to free-range and have some outdoor time chasing bugs and scratching up a storm. There are 6 Crevecoeur chicks and a single Crevelorp (Crevecoeur/Australorp cross) We seem to have one very active cockerel that is hoped to be good enough to enable us to maintain our future breeding programs for these birds.

23.01.2022 Today, we have been provided a 3m x 2m garden shed that is currently located on our old property at 8 Simpson Avenue Rupanyup. The new owner, Ren Walters has no use for it and has donated the shed towards our conservancy program at Eagle Point so long as we dismantle it in the next month or so. We thank Ren for his gift and will organise to have it pulled down during next week and prepare it on a trailer for relocating it down onto the Eagle Point location soon thereafter.... We will investigate the best place to site this shed so it provides mice proof feed and tool storage for our Creves and as soon as we can lay a concrete slab floor to fit it to.

23.01.2022 Taken during a Crevecoeur mating display that was rather exciting to see.. The hen that is not seen here seemed less impressed than I was..

23.01.2022 Update on the Clever Logger

21.01.2022 Any surplus Crevecoeur Roosters out there, as we need one at Eagle Point..

21.01.2022 Since July 23 (our last post) the Eagle Point Conservancy has been stalled due to the requirements of our bank, our builder, the council and also ourselves. Finaly we seem to be n the head straight leading to the wire and it has taken a load of work but it finally seems we can vision a home on our block and a number of pens and gardens for the Crevecoeurs. The breeding program has been minimal this year as we needed the housing to be completed in order to begin raising the bi...rds and so the breeding program is limited. Here is the first of a number of chicks to be hatched here in Rupanyup in 2017 and the numbers may now be increased so the pens may be overflowing in 2018.

20.01.2022 Yesterday, the first real actions on the Eagle Point property was undertaken in as much as the first load of poultry pen building materials was delivered. This is second hand iron, timber and star pickets for fencing but as there was a pending storm event covering our State of Victoria, the materials were basically sset down and we had to leave.. The new house site was scraped clean and level by the builders and level saddles were created in readiness for the plumbing to be a...dded just before a slab floor to be possibly poured next week. It will be some time before everything is in order such as the new home here, poultry sheds and pens and of course, our Crevecoeurs but we are confident that this will be simply a waiting time and a little work to come. David Craker (Dec 2017)

20.01.2022 Well folks, it is the 23rd of July 2018 and the Creves have a pen on their own.. I have managed to seperate all the birds into pens that keep them secure and well sorted as far as roosts and basic nest boxes are concerned.. The next week or so should see the birds getting another large pen to live in and I will sort out some breeding groups to make the most of the upcoming breeding season here.... The Creve roosters have been active with their hens and sadly in the last week there have been two fatalities with no apparent cause and these were both hens.. I am not sure if they were egg bound or similar but they were simply not interesting in eating in the morning and dead by nightfall but I am used to losing birds from the weather and heat earlier this year. The diference in weather here is that we have the minus 1 to minus 4 mornings and up to 19 degrees Celcius as a high for the day..

19.01.2022 Photos from the block at Eagle Point.

19.01.2022 Here is a stand our brooder lamp for heating a brooder box from the top

19.01.2022 The Rupanyup Crevecoeur Conservancy has been gifted some top birds form Richard Allman and Katie Stanbridge of Moe. Richard and Katie have donated a breeding gr...oup of adult Crevecoeur birds along with almost a dozen Creve chicks that haveenhanced the breeding program we have planned here and are trying to establish for our Eagle Point property. This donation was especially generous at it was the complete Crevecoeur bird collection that included the award winning birds that had been built up since Richard and Katie chose to keep Crevecoeur chickens. See the photo attached to this post. We appreciate the most generous donation and will prize the opportunity it has delivered in our programs. Thank you Richard and Katie.

18.01.2022 At the conservancy, we have had a few bad weeks that have really become a problem today. In the past few weeks, our family of Crevecour chooks have fallen ill to a form of CRD respiratory disease that has come and now passed through their pen, the sad news is that 3 hens have died as a result. This was despite them being treated with a range of antibiotics and changes of diet to one that will boost the resistance to the effects....Continue reading

17.01.2022 Did someone consider the issue with our Creve stock in Australia?

16.01.2022 After a rush to a start, we have been slowed down by a few issues that were unforseen. It seems we cannot build an structures on the block of any size until we have a dwelling built and or a building permit to build one. We cannot even have a garden shed of 2.8 metres by 3 metres as described before this.... Our house build now depends on finances and sadly our first bank has left us in a poor sitiuation after initially providing us with finance and allowing us to start the connections for wateer, power, septic tank and the deposits for our contractor builders they found that they had mistakenly approved us and sincerely applologised for misleading us into entering into these arrangements thinking they were supporting us. The bank had us create new accounts, start to deposit into the accounts through our pensions, and even sent letters and a card from a director welcoming us and congratulating us in choosing them, needless to say, it was all pulled by us immediately with the bank. It was quuite funny that the bank would be happy to continue to accept our income support for deposits into their accounts but did not accept them for loans, but that is typical of banks from what I can see.. Sadly all the plans were reversed and we are now at a start again trying to identify the best bank to work with that will accept our two pensions as 1st level income or recognise me as eligible for a home loan now I am over 60 years of age.. Of the few that will look at taking pensions, most will provide finance on a home loan for no more than 10 years which sorts of defeats the ability to earn enough to pay it back.. Anyway, we expect an answer from other banks soon.

16.01.2022 The Eagle Point Crevecoeur Conservancy has been provided an official address today. Our address has been changed from lot1/225 Lake Victoria Road to 6 Jones Road Eagle Point 3878

16.01.2022 In Australia, our Creve numbers are still very low according to the census. With some effort and undertaking in Australia by breeders, we may be able to move the Creves up the list with numbers so we can have good stock available in each State and Territory

16.01.2022 Blue Crevecoeur pullet and young handler..

14.01.2022 Latest shed photo

14.01.2022 Well folks time for an update, the Eagle Point Crevecoeur Conservancy has been slowly developing for the last part of 2018 and now 2019 due to our relocation from Rupanyup to Eagle Point where we can build and grow our breeding programs and continue to build our community education presence. As we work through the redevelopment of our breeding functions and look towards the future at the new location, we are slowly building out sheds and pens for storage and housing of projec...ts at Eagle Point. Today as an example, there was a donation of some steel trusses, quality roofing iron and a good amount of timber for framing and a sliding window by a lovely local couple, Julie and Keith of Paynesville. They had these preloved items in their yard after a shed construction and allowed me to visit for a collection. Keith assisted me to carry out and load these items in my trailer and provided advice as to how they can be best used in our shed builds in the coming weeks. Their donation of the building materials on my property will allow us to gain the start here of our new sheds and I thank them so much for their support.

14.01.2022 It seems that we are close to completing the build of our new home on the property and have our original garden shed rebuit after it was blown in from a great wind storm with gale force damaging winds to slow the establishment. Now we have the shed to store building materials and a few tools, we can look towards the new pens for our Creves. On the next visit to the property we will try to establish where we can obtain up to 50 timber pallets and form up the walls of these pens.

13.01.2022 The new Creve pens start to take shape

13.01.2022 The Creves in the USA are still being developed by the Livestock Conservancy there.. I can say that a number of other breeders are doing well with them and there is a Northern American Crevecoeur Breeders Group.. https://www.facebook.com/groups/519449748558495/

12.01.2022 One of our handsome Crevecoeur boys at Eagle Point.. He is a pretty boy and knows it..

11.01.2022 We had a setback this week when gale force winds hit the area and demolished the first shed we had erected for the birds. Thankfully it did not blow away and is currently being tied down until it can be dealt with to try to rebuild it with foundations to hold it in place. As soon as we have a house to live in I will be trying to source a large number of timber pallets to start the main walls for the future pens.... Our house has been estimated to be completed in about 10 weeks so it won't be long until there is activity to build that series of pens and then transfer all the birds to get started in the new conservancy here.

11.01.2022 Alicia Craker with Germaine, a rooster and one of the younger Crevecoeur population here..

10.01.2022 This week hass seen some smaller wins regarding our new house inside being that it was painted, kitchen cabinets and some bathroom items installed but there was no movement for the pens. It was decided that the chook pens would be constructed after the Easter break when the septic waste system would be installed. The material for a large part of the pens is still on a trailer at Rupanyup and so that whole process is waiting for the trip down to the block.... The other change is that there is a good amount of showers and gale force winds in the area and these threaten to blow the main shed away again, I hope that our previous rebuild will be good enough to withstand the winds to come.

09.01.2022 my egg hatching setup, only 4 Creve eggs set as yet but the birds are starting to lay...

07.01.2022 I managed to get the next Crevecoeur pens started and the frame is erected in front of the larger one that I built.. It is 5.4 metres x 4.4 metres and will be dedicated to the Creves only.. This will probably be my breeding pens and will be divided into a clean walkway in the middle with rows of pens either side along the lengths.

07.01.2022 An old video of our boy Germiane, he was so tame and was a happy member of the family, however, he did die before the move to Eagle Point in 2018.

04.01.2022 Latest news from Eagle Point.

03.01.2022 Recent Eagle Point Crevecoeur Conservancy News

03.01.2022 Update for September 2020

02.01.2022 More pens have been built and still being completed here buy the volunteers.. We have really worked through a few hundred dollars worth of Tek Screws but the pens are starting t come together now.. We have also some wooden flooring sections being made to add to the projects and so it is all looking gret for the rest f this year for these birds.