Chickens have been a wonderful addition to the family. They do have their quirks and challenges, but their benefits far outweigh those. Eggs being only a small part!

Much of Victoria is struggling to recover from a difficult challenging Summer and Autumn, with many struggling to feed their stock. This hasn't stopped us from beginning the switch to regenerative practices.

Apparently everyone and their dog wants backyard chickens at the minute, but our chicken adoption has been a long while in the making. The heightened demand does add some complexity to our mission to populate our recently finished coop, but we are not to be discouraged.

Getting our chicken coop from a state of disrepair to chicken-liveable was a much bigger project than we realised when we first started. It felt like an perpetual exercise of Murphy's Law, but we refused to let this thing defeat us!

Swarming is something you want to avoid as a beekeeper. Avoid, or at least control. We hadn't anticipated this one, and had to learn quickly how best to deal with it.