Killy Cluckers
Small hobby farm that is working to towards show quality Silver Laced Wyandotte's. Keets & eggs available seasonally.
We also have Guinea Fowl that free range around the farm keeping ticks, mites & insects at bay.
28/09/2023
Killy Cluckers have some Trios available (1 Roo, 2 Pullets). Message me for details.
28/03/2023
Hello chook lovers!
Iv been quiet on here lately not much happening! Just looking after the young birds waiting for them to grow into something beautiful ❤️
A Silver Laced Wyandotte pullet starting to show her true colours! 🐔🙊
07/11/2022
🥚🥚🥚COLLECTING EGGS FOR INCUBATION OR BROODY HEN 🥚 🥚🥚
Clean fresh nest boxes = clean eggs. I use wood shavings in my nest boxes. Clean eggs are very important! Dirty eggs can carry bad bacteria which can harm the embryo.
Washing dirty eggs can harm the protective layer around the egg. So the best way to prevent this is to avoid dirty eggs in the first place.
🐥Collecting eggs with care and storing the eggs the right way
🐥Store eggs pointy end down in the egg carton
🐥Store eggs in a cool place where the temperature doesn’t fluctuate to much
🐥Collect fresh eggs & store for max 14 days before incubating or setting under a broody hen. I mark eggs from different pens with a pencil.
🐥Give the birds top quality food & fresh water daily. The egg carries all the nutrients needed for a healthy chicken to develop.
Silver Laced Wyandotte babies! ❤️
2022 Hatch. Toe punched according to parent group & ready for brooder box. 🤩🐣🐥🙊🙉
🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚First lot of eggs have gone into lockdown! ETA to chickens 3 days 🤩🤩🐣🐣
Hatching basket setup into different breeding groups!
Using a Smart Incubator
16/09/2022
Guinea Fowl around the farm 🧡 The greatest bug hunters always hanging out with Tonescourt Droughtmasters 🐜 🐛 🐞 🪱🕷🦗🪳
Bit nosey and noisey sometimes!
Not laying yet but hoping to get some eggs in coming weeks as the days warm up! 🥚🥚🐣🐣
🥚 🥚🥚First lot of eggs into the new ‘Smart Incubator’ could be dangerous if they all hatch!
This machine is manual turn but as you can see very easy!
Testing my fertility for the season I will candle these eggs in 7 days then again at lockdown. Eggs will be loaded into the machine every Friday from now on. Collecting the eggs from pens daily & storing pointy end down. So that the oldest eggs incubated are 7 days old. Eggs stored for longer periods of time decrease the hatch-ability rates.
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http://www.smartincubators.com/pdf/Smart_Incubators_Brochure.pdf
26/07/2022
Unboxing! 😀😀🥚🥚🐥🐣🐤
Iv been on Laurie’s waiting list for over 12 months! Busy man!
But here it is my very own Smart Incubator handmade in Victoria. 243 egg Model with added hatching tray can’t wait to test it out 👏🐣
- I will be adding dividers in my hatching tray to keep chicks seperate for different pens
I’ll be here busy reading the instructions book! Keen to see how this machine goes compared to my Greatlander machine.
More details.
http://www.smartincubators.com
10/07/2022
Afternoons with the girls 😍🙌🐔
19/06/2022
It’s not all about the girls here! This 2020 bred c**k is still looking lovely. He has some beautiful offspring on the ground from 2021 season and I’m planning on using him again this year. 🐓🐓🐓❤️❤️
What I like about him?
- Good nature
- Good thigh lacing
- Open lacing all over
- Big and wide bird
- Good round shape
19/06/2022
Every few months I lay mulch hay down in the pens for the chooks! Gives them something to scratch around in and also somewhere for the bugs to hide! They love it 😍🐓👏🐜🌾
Happy chooks = Happy Chook mum! 😃
Sundays are for chasing bugs 🐜 🐛 🐓
Silver Laced Wyandotte’s ❤️
05/06/2022
Few hot birds getting around 😜🫣❤️🫶🏽
Silver Laced Wyandotte Pullets bred last year!
🐜🐛Young bug hunters 🐛 🐜
Now out and about camping at night in the fig tree 🌳
Colours
💙Pearl
🤎Chocolate
🤍Ivory
Some in pied also ❤️
02/05/2022
Pullets bred last year really starting to bloom 😍🔥🫶🏽🌸
29/04/2022
Cluck cluck cluck 🐔🐔🔥🔥
🖤🤍🖤Silver Laced Wyandotte Pullets🤍🖤🤍
Not perfect but can’t wait for next season.
03/04/2022
🐜🐛Young bug hunters 🐛 🐜
Pearl and Chocolate Guinea fowl!
I kept these from my hatching this year to add to my free range flock aren’t they just beautiful 😍😍
Our adult Guinea fowl cruise around the farm hunting insects! Low maintenance birds too
02/04/2022
🍑🍑🍑I love fluffy butts 🍑🍑🍑
🖤🤍Black and white on green lawn! Pullets growing out well this season 🤍🖤
I have a few lawn ornaments available message me for details 🍄
27/02/2022
2021 Hatch growing out nicely! Snapped few photos chooks are very hard to photograph!🐔😅
🖤🖤Black and White🤍🤍
🌿🖤🤍Wyandotte pullet enjoying herself this afternoon between the rain! 🌿🖤🤍
2021 hatch.
🐔🐔 Tasty 🐔🐔
🥚 Kewpie pullet grower
🌽 Cracked Corn
🍃Lucerne chaff
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🖤🖤🐔🐔🤍🤍Some of these birds are going to the sale Sunday! Get some beautiful yards ornaments 🖤🖤🐔🐔🤍🤍
Gympie Poultry Club
🐓BACKYARD POULTRY SALE 🐓
Don’t forget we are holding a backyard poultry sale on Sunday the 13th of february at the Gympie Showgrounds! If you’d like to sell any birds please pen them between 6-8am. It is $2 per bird to enter.
The sale will commence at 8am.
Any birds that are not sold must be collected at the end of the sale (11am)
Bree Smith will be attending to collect any unwanted roosters, poultry, pigeons.
Anyone interested in my birds I will be taking some Silver Laced Wyandotte’s to the sale on Sunday 🐔🐔
30/01/2022
🐔🍳🥚🥚Farm Fresh Eggs 🥚 🥚🍳🐔
My friend got this for me for Christmas this year! How good haha
26/01/2022
🐔🐥📝Record keeping 📝 🐥🐔
This season I did a few things to keep track of my Silver Laced Wyandotte breeding program
1. Tagged all the adult birds with leg bands. Both numbered bands and coloured bands. Coloured bands make it easy to identify who is who. Also each year I pick a new year colour for the babies this way I know how old the birds are by leg band colour.
2. Went through the hens and roosters and paired 3 hens with 1 rooster best suited to one another. Took notes of which birds have been mated together.
3. Marked all eggs from different pens when collected. Pen A,B,C
4. Candled egg at day 10 of incubation and recorded fertility. Removing infertile eggs. Candling eggs again at night 18 before lockdown.
5. Once eggs are placed into lock down the basket is divided into 4 sections so chicks can be identified what group they belong to.
6. Once hatched the chicks are toe punched before being put in brooder box. Then I know who is the parent group.
- Greatlander Incubator
- Coloured zip ties
- Toe punch from - Pinnon Hatch Farms
- Metal Numbered leg bands - Pinnon Hatch Farms
- Kewpie Chick Starter
I have lots of pullets and c**kerels growing out at the moment and hoping this system will make big improvements on next year. 🐔🐔
18/01/2022
Preach 🙌😂