Pipers Creek Landcare

  • Keeping backyard chooks

    Keeping backyard chooks

    Understanding chicken (chook) social behaviour makes it easier for the backyard enthusiast to properly house, feed and importantly, enjoy their personalities. Chooks are really smart. They have exceptional eyesight, can recognise people’s facial features, distinguish colours and communicate with more than 24 vocal sounds. Their hearing is amazing too and they recognise differing voices, car…

  • Chooks in my back yard

    Chooks in my back yard

    Do you want to know about keeping chooks in your back yard, but don’t know who to ask? Pipers Creek Landcare, with specialist assistance from Kyneton District Poultry Club, will conduct a chook workshop with an emphasis on family fun for new people to the area both on rural blocks and in town. Talk one-on-one…