Our Tropical Homestead🌴🐓 Chickens & Guineafowl in Far North Queensland, Australia

[@johannahmaza3705]

Amazing info for tropical chicken raising! Thank you!! 🙏🐔💗

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Our pleasure! 😁 So glad it was helpful!

[@KhmerMinnesnowta]

It's great to be able to raise animals and to grow your own food. This reminded me of my childhood even I grew up in the Phnom Penh city way back in the 60s. Have a good day and enjoy your beautiful farm🎉

[@vintagefoodfarm]

I'm so happy you are still watching our videos!!! Even though we are in Australia😁😁😁👍I hope you are enjoying PP! I wish i could see Phnom Penh in the 60's! Everything you say is so amazing! 🥰🥰🥰Such an insight! Have a great day!!!! And enjoy the warm weather!

[@maureenmaxwell-y7q]

Hi there I absolutely love your tours. I would like to see more of the farm as it looks amazing. Watch you nearly every day. 😊 Love Tim he has a awesome smile. Great team. Thank you keep making more shows. I have subscribed and l like Christmas blessings praise God bless you all Maureen Maxwell

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Yay! That's so cool! 🥰Thank you so much Maureen! So happy you are liking the channel! We will get back to farm videos at some point lol😂 Merry Christmas! 🥰🥰🥰

[@237rosemary]

Thanks so much for that interesting chicken run down in the tropics. I actually learnt something I thought you may be interested in knowing. I always thought the crop of the bird was where the stones and grit helped churn food but it’s only for food storage. The gizzard further down past the stomach is where the churning happens. I noticed your birds picking up some sandy soil while dust bathing and googled when my hubby said that’s for the gizzard. It was a crop and gizzard argument 😆

[@vintagefoodfarm]

hahahaha!!! 😂thank you so much!!! Always happy to learn!!!! 🥰👍

[@jasonclark950]

I have kept red jungle fowl in Australia in the past, beautiful birds to have roaming around your property! Considering domesticated chickens were developed from red jungle fowl from tropical Asia, you are in their natural environment in Cairns with the jungle canopy for shade and plenty of leaf litter for them to forage for insects! Cheers great video.

[@vintagefoodfarm]

oh wow!!! Thank you so much!! I will google them now! how exciting 😁

[@vintagefoodfarm]

😁😁😁They look like Cambodian chickens that I LOVE!

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Glad you liked the video 😁👍

[@jasonclark950]

There are members in the pheasant and waterfowl society in QLD that keep pure red jungle fowl!! Beautiful birds. Cheers@@vintagefoodfarm

[@vintagefoodfarm]

I'm going to find some. I looked on FB and Gum Tree with no luck. Someone on Facebook said that there are some wild ones running around Speewah in the bush! I'll try the pheasant and waterfowl society in QLD! thanks

[@chiarad4080]

That was such a great informative video ! Please keep up the great content. I'm in the West Indies and would love to get chickens soon. So good to hear you feed your chickens only 10% commercial feed. So do they naturally help themselves to less commercial feed when they have a lot of produce etc available ? Or do you just put out a tiny bit of commercial feed ? On another topic, I'd love to learn more about the soil you use in your raised garden beds !

[@vintagefoodfarm]

So glad you liked it!!! 😁 The chickens will eat as much comercial food as we give them so it's about reducing the amount while increasing their availability to produce from the garden and free ranging. We do give them more if we go away just because it is easy when our son looks after them. They also get all of our kitchen scraps etc. We use mill mud in out garden beds which is fantastic! Highly recommend it! 😁👍

[@chiarad4080]

@@vintagefoodfarm Thank you so much !

[@vintagefoodfarm]

pleasure!😁

[@plowestory]

Outstanding work - Thank you.

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Our pleasure!😁🐔

[@KirsteeRoden]

Learnt some great info and tips, thank you. I've just found your KZbin page. I live next door in Koah. Look forward to watching more of your videos

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Awwww!!!! 🥰That's Awesome!!! 😁Literally our neighbours!!! Might see you at the Koah markets 😊Have a great day!!! And enjoy this beautiful rainy weather!🥰🥰🥰

[@ผมรักเมืองไทย111]

Good morning from Bangkok Thailand but i am Cambodian 🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Good morning!!! Hope you have a great day!!! 🥰🥰🥰🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭

[@josephhuntly5862]

Hey there guys i really enjoyed the video...very informative and I'll look at implementing those ideas when i move to the farm 😊thx once again enjoy 🎉

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Thanks!😁So glad you enjoyed it and that it was helpful!😊👍Have a great day!

[@petermartijnheite-bauwens1632]

I learn a lot about the wild animals. Here in the Netherlands we have snakes the Ratsnake and a venomous Adder. They are small but the Adder can bite lethal. We also have upcoming new animals due the climate change. Like the Asian Hornet and some spider species relative to the Black Widow spider. Do you guys have venomous snakes in your garden? We call the red feathered chickens Barnevelders and the Guineafowls we call them Parelhoen. Thanks for sharing this great video. I love the way you guys tell and show how you work. Hope to see much more. Greetings Peter from The Netherlands.

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Hi Peter! Very cool to know! Thank you! Yes we venomous snakes. We have had Brown Snakes and Coastal Taipans. We also had a black snake that I don't know what it was that looked venomous. We have learned to actually look where you are walking! All the time! 😊Thanks for telling us about the Netherlands! very interesting!!! 😁have a great day

[@ผมรักเมืองไทย111]

Cambodia 🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭 love you

[@vintagefoodfarm]

We LOVE Cambodia!!!! 🥰🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭

[@karenjoy7557]

How do you bring back black pepper corns from cambodia.. to Australia through Customs...as it is a seed...??? With your chickens give them crashed garlic in the seed dish with some Oil it will keep them not Egg Bound at all...but U should of got 2 lots of sweet potato leaves for all the chickens...Quail are fantastic birds aswell...lovely ring and clean up seed leftover by chickens... How many Guinea Fowl do U as females to males....I would love to get some at my place at Woy Woy NSW as we can have 10 fowls per property as I think they are cool birds... Get Quail nice ring at night time as in dusk before tgey go to bed like a twitter...😂❤😂❤

[@vintagefoodfarm]

We declare everything at customs . They are ok with pepper if it is clean and has its full botanical name on it. Pepper is not a restricted plant so its more about disease i think. Lots of seeds are imported into Australia. Thanks about the garlic and oil tip! Don't worry about our chickens they have more than enough sweat potato leaves! More than they can eat every single day😁 We have 4 of our own guineas and then a few ring ins from the bush, 2 males 2 females and then who ever turns up😊 We did have more females but they went off with another group and then come back to visit (eat)😂 Quail would get eaten to easily up here. The pythons love tiny birds too much😊Have a great day!!!

[@ChristineExhaleRelax]

Love your channel, super inspiring. Just wondering how often you see snakes on your property.

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Too often! 🐍🐍🐍😁Actually it's not that bad. Or we are getting used to it 😂 It is almost always when the chickens have chicks or the guineafowl have keets. The pythons are attracted to the chicks. We get about 4 pythons a year all in the span of about a month in Sept/October which is when we get a lot of chicks. some of them are 4 metres long and 10cm thick so not nice 😫We see a random poisonous snake on top of that about once a year. that could be a Eastern Brown Snake or a Coastal Taipan etc but they move on pretty quickly🥰

[@ChristineExhaleRelax]

@@vintagefoodfarm that's actually not too bad, thought it'd be much more than that. 4 metres long python must be heavy as 🤣. I have never seen a brown or taipan outside the sanctuary, guess they are only after the mice and rats, but not the chicks?

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Yeah mainly mice and rats 😋 Pythons are very heavy so in order not to cause a back injury i will leave it to the snake catcher 😁

[@therabbitnews9362]

When I was young, I always said that Durian tasted like chicken poop. I never like it.

[@vintagefoodfarm]

hahaha!!! I LOVE it! 😋and Tim hates it!😈 Maybe I should try chicken poo🤢🤮

[@bex707]

😂😂 Durian is different for everyone. I love it but my brother hates it!