iCultivate Articles

No matter how much we love our chickens, there are some undeniable facts that we all need to face from time to time: on occasions chickens within the flock die.all chickens reach an age when their laying reduces significantly. Therefore, if you want to maintain a nice supply of eggs, on...

Three years ago when our lifestyle “tweaking” began, we decided to get some chickens. The idea was based around the good organic gardening principles of having some chooks around to scratch and manure the vegie garden, remove the various insect pests and of course - provide us with beautiful fresh eggs....

Protecting Chickens From Rain In South-east Queensland, we have recently had an unprecendented amount of rain. This rain has been not only large in quantity, but the time over which it has fallen has been significant. It may sound like an exageration, but it sometimes seems like it has been raining...