Quote from: caskur on June 20, 2024, 04:50:08 PMHow did the beetle get here in the first place is the question.

Someone brought it in.

Silly me, I would have thought a more pertinent question would have been "shit! how are we going to fix this without fucking ourselves in the process?"

Knowing who brought it in might be nice piece of trivia to know at parties, but it goes nowhere towards solving the problem.

Quote from: Herman on June 21, 2024, 09:06:56 PMI don't have dual purpose chickens. I got white leghorns for eggs.

I haven't seen a white cook in years. We had a white bantam though and she got clunky so we bought day old chick's and put them under her during the night... it was really funny when the chicks grew full size and the bantam half their size still clucked around mothering them....lol

I really enjoy chooks and chicks.

I tried to keep chickens but it never worked out. Always ended up choking them.

Quote from: caskur on June 21, 2024, 03:14:08 AMwe have Red Chickens but there is a new breed Isa Red... they lay every day BUT they only live 3 years. I'll never get them again.

I don't have dual purpose chickens. I got white leghorns for eggs.

Quote from: Herman on June 20, 2024, 09:05:20 PMI raise and sell cornish cross chickens. I free range red ranger chickens and broad breasted bronze turkeys for us and some friends.

we have Red Chickens but there is a new breed Isa Red... they lay every day BUT they only live 3 years. I'll never get them again.

I raise and sell cornish cross chickens. I free range red ranger chickens and broad breasted bronze turkeys for us and some friends.

Quote from: Frood on June 20, 2024, 03:47:35 PMShit-hole beetle?

WA is fucked. 

How did the beetle get here in the first place is the question.

Someone brought it in.

Shit-hole beetle?

WA is fucked. 

You should see me going off my tits on facebook...


"Authorities are attempting to contain the fallout of the arrival of the polyphagous shot-hole borer into Perth, an exotic beetle native to South East Asia that kills trees by boring tunnels into them and implanting a fungus.

30 Jan 2024"

Quote from: Frood on June 20, 2024, 03:14:46 PMCouncils have been waging war on home produce and livestock in Australia for many years.

They wouldn't think twice about using a virus to go door to door or have neighbours call in a dobber telephone line. 

Yeah... they are also taking out our mature trees because of some Asian boring bug and they come on our property every 3 months looking for it in our Coral tree.

The coral tree really feeds the native birds... because of their flowers.

Quote from: caskur on June 20, 2024, 03:10:30 PMYeah they could I guess...

We don't need a licence so there is no way a council would come along and take them because they don't know I have them.

There has been no mention via the news they want our backyards hens yet. I saw a battery hen farmer on the news yesterday. So far they have only slaughtered the free range chooks. The price of eggs will double no doubt.

Councils have been waging war on home produce and livestock in Australia for many years.

They wouldn't think twice about using a virus to go door to door or have neighbours call in a dobber telephone line. 

Quote from: Frood on June 20, 2024, 03:01:09 PMThey might take them for you in the burbs.

Yeah they could I guess...

We don't need a licence so there is no way a council would come along and take them because they don't know I have them.

There has been no mention via the news they want our backyards hens yet. I saw a battery hen farmer on the news yesterday. So far they have only slaughtered the free range chooks. The price of eggs will double no doubt.

Quote from: caskur on June 20, 2024, 02:59:40 PMWe have 3 chickens... we don't have to stock up on anything... actually, we should go and buy 2 more chooks.

They might take them for you in the burbs.

Quote from: Frood on June 20, 2024, 11:29:43 AMThey're coming for our poultry in Australia.

  

We have 3 chickens... we don't have to stock up on anything... actually, we should go and buy 2 more chooks.

Quote from: Erica Mena on June 20, 2024, 12:57:56 PMPowdered eggs?

Freeze dried. Similar...