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Mia's Happy Chooks

Locality: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 428 270 767

Address: Burbank Brisbane, QLD, Australia

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25.01.2022 These guys and girls are nearly 4 months old now, coming along nicely.

23.01.2022 Gotta be careful when entering the "Growing Pen" because these bubs are everywhere and are under your feet and some are camouflaged..

22.01.2022 Cracking an egg into a glass bowl and then watching the chick develop, grow, and hatch sounds like the most impposible idea ever. But this video shows that it c...an be done. Let's watch the entire fascinating process of China's first chick hatched without eggshell in just 21 days. #CCTV #TotheFuture See more

20.01.2022 For Sale - all offers considered - This guy is a nice big boy, good Dad and is a gentleman with his girls, but unfortunately needs to find a new home and let his son take over.. approx 12-18 months old..pick up Burbank, SE Brisbane.

20.01.2022 Growing quickly

18.01.2022 Here's a fact that could stop you getting sick! According to Qld Health, washing or rinsing a dirty egg can push harmful bacteria, like Salmonella, throug...h the porous shell. "To clean your eggs, wipe them with a paper towel to remove any dirt or faeces. If an egg will not wipe clean, it should be discarded."

17.01.2022 Anyone looking for fertile eggs? I am starting to accumulate some Plymouth Rock fertile eggs, Lavender and Speckled Sussex fertile eggs. Too busy at the moment to incubate. $3 per egg for broody hens or $35 dozen (if I have a dozen). Pick up Burbank (between Capalaba and Rochedale)

16.01.2022 Yep happened to me a few times...

16.01.2022 Sad, gross, but an interesting story...one of my middle aged hens died suddenly a few days ago. Up until then she was healthy and seemed happy enough laying an egg every day and she did not seem sick or depressed/distressed so I had no clue what had killed her. Only just over a couple of months ago I hatched her eggs into happy healthy chicks. I thought maybe a snake bit her, or she ate a toadlet or even thought maybe a rat carried some poison bait into her pen and she ate it..., I saw no sign or marks on her body. Anyway, I know it sounds horrible but I thought I would use her body for a good cause to prevent other chooks in the neighbourhood from getting killed by our local resident fox who has been slowly killing off the local chook population in our area. The fox has mange and it limps and looks very sick and poorly and because it is so desperate we often see it in our paddocks in broad daylight and it hangs around the horses at night. My neighbour has reported it to the council and despite their trapping efforts, it still remains elusive, so I borrowed a cat cage trap and put my poor girl in it as bait. I have checked the trap the last few days but until this morning nothing. This morning two things had changed, the cage door had been tripped by something and closed and there was an egg in the cage! My poor dead hen had laid an egg! Maybe she was egg bound and died and the relaxed muscles released it, or maybe the fox or a goanna tried to move her and an egg popped out with the pressure of their jaws or the tightness of rigor mortis?? Amazing! 3 days after death my hen laid an egg. No photos for this one sorry, not very nice. See more

13.01.2022 The secret to taming chickens to be friendly and happy? Cuddles!

12.01.2022 Amazing hatch story.. well my last story was about lots of chicks in a staggered hatch. We had plans to go away for the weekend and my neighbour (bless her) was to look after things while I was away. My last few eggs in the incubator were not going to hatch so I turned it off and while I was throwing them out I noticed one of them had a later date on it and I remembered I did add one egg a couple of days after all the others to fill up the space. I thought "oh well, I will pu...t it in the sawdust, in the brooder box with all the hatched chicks under heat and maybe it will hatch", but I doubted it would work. We went away and some rain showers were hanging about boosting the humidity up making it a very muggy weekend. I get a text message a couple of days later "OMG that egg hatched last night!.." and the chick had fluffed up and survived by the time I got back and I could hardly tell it apart from the others! See more

11.01.2022 Staggered hatches...not something I would recommend but found myself having to do it out of necessity..here's my latest story... Broody hen season follows spring, lots of hens are over getting chased and covered by the roosters and all eggs developing inside them are bound to be fertile so they sit and usually it puts all the others hens off laying too. I was super busy leading up to Christmas (weren't we all!) and then I had a holiday to plan and pack and go on, so I did ski...p a few good chook housekeeping rules. I knew I had a few hens broody and they found and chose their nests amongst various pens. I didn't separate them and thought "I'll just let them stay on those few eggs for now and move them when I get back". Well, when I got back from holidays there were literally dozens of eggs under my 3 remaining broody hens (some of the others gave up). All the non-broody hens had decided to lay their their eggs in the same nest as the sitters even when they had plenty of other nests to choose from. So knowing there was no way these 3 hens would manage to hatch them all since the original eggs they had were actually due to hatch anytime that week I returned. So I candled the eggs one night and removed the less developed eggs and left a few of the darker eggs for Mums to hatch. One hen decided she'd had enough once I disturbed her and left the eggs so in they all went into 3 different incubators (one for well done, one for midway done and the third for newly started development). The 2nd hen had a couple of rotten eggs and left the nest in a day or so after I got back so I only salvaged freshly developed eggs, washed them and put in incubator. The 3rd hen hatched a couple of chicks, one chick died I think from being trampled on and I saved the 1 chick and put it a brooder box and hoped she hatches another to keep it company which she did for 4 days in a row. See more

08.01.2022 My iPhone froze on the boot/startup screen after an update, so anyone who needs to contact me, please use FB or email for now until I get it sorted, thanks.

06.01.2022 Just fluffy bumming around under a tree...my old girls

05.01.2022 These happy boys are looking for a new home. 4x Lavender Sussex purebreds, about 5 months old approx, haven’t started crowing yet. All offers considered from good homes

03.01.2022 New young breeding teams getting fed and ready for the Spring. We will be away on a short holiday between 7-14th July then incubating will begin.. (Plymouth Rocks, Lavender Sussex and Speckled Sussex only this year)

02.01.2022 First year breeding trio of purebred Speckled Sussex available. $120. Or take rooster on his own for $20. Easy to sex chicks in this bloodline's offspring. Pick up at Burbank. (Hens are not available without the rooster sorry). Chicks available soon..

02.01.2022 Fathers Day arrivals - Lavender Sussex fluffy bums