AUSTRALIAN POULTRY FORUM™

Goulburn Poultry Fanciers Society Auction
(including sale of equipment such as incubators, feeders and carry boxes, plus other bird breeds welcome).

Date: Sunday 22 July 2007,
9.30am start, commencing with misc. items (eg. aviary birds & feeders)
before moving on to penned poultry.
Remaining dates for 2007: 16 September and 18 November.

Venue: Poultry Pavilion Goulburn Showgrounds,
Braidwood Rd, Goulburn

Penning:
5pm - 7pm Saturday night &
7am - 9am Sunday morning
or until pens are full - late-comers may miss out

For more information please contact:
Bob (02) 4844 7133 (Secretary)

I am going to Goulburn, who else is going??

a friend of ours is going, hoping he will sneak me back some Muscovies, so the wife doesn't see.

are you going to buy something



Jeff Trescott

Jeff, I have a fairly long shopping list.

I loved to get a girl for my pied peacock boy, girls for my Silver, Golden and Ringneck pheasants, a couple more white turkeys to extend my bloodline of my show turkeys. Of course any muscovies that would extend my collection.

I also would love to have a pair of Bentville Turkeys, but I have not seen them at any auctions yet. I am also hoping to get some Ancona seeing how I lost all mine to a dog attack 5 weeks ago.

As you can see, it is a good list, so I hope to get something.

Trevor

BB, were the dogs local (neighbors) that is quite a list, you must drive a van or ute? maybe a truck Have you tried ""Garwoods" on Ph: 07. 3886 7544 they are in Narangba Qld they have Goldens & Ringnecks & from memory they do Freight.



Thanks
Peacocks Australia

I only believe it was a dog, because all the kills were 1 bite and the chest was crushed, then the bird was dropped where killed, and ¼ of the birds were buried in the pens.

No birds were taken, only killed. I also lost 8 peachicks, (heart attacks or stress) and all my female pheasants the same way.

The dog only attacked my most expensive birds, walked pass everything else, but an observation was that it only attacked small birds, anything that was as big or bigger that a Muscovy drake was not touched. As I have large fowl and muscovies in the same area and they were not touched??? I lost 50 birds in that attack, about $1000 - $1500 in pure bird cost, not replacement bloodlines, the peachicks could have earned me $800 plus when fully grown, (2 white, 2 pied, 2 dark pied and 2 blue)

The list I gave is a shopping list, I could not afford to buy it all at the one time, but yes I own a ute and I take 12 poultry crates with me to every auction, sometime they are full going to auctions and sometimes full on the way home.

I currently have a order for 20 white geese, 10 guinea fowl and a peahen, from one person, as well as other orders from other people. It keeps me busy.

The next auction is scheduled for Sunday 16 September in the Goulburn Showgrounds. It will commence at 9.30am sharp.

How did you go at the auction brokenbird, my friend didn't get me any muscovies

Did you get any?



Jeff

"I am in the dog house"

not really, I bought lots, some I planned some not.

I got:
a trio of Bantam Ancona - $24, to help rebuild my flock
a Golden pheasant male - $14
a beautiful pair of Pile Modern Game - $**
two white female poults
a pair of lavender Guinea Fowl - $28
1 mature blue peahen - $72
1 juvenile dark pied peacock - $56
1 juvenile blue peahen - $55
1 18 month old blue peacock - $25

So I am happy with my trip

I am not surprised that your friend did not get any muscovies, as the traders were red hot yesterday. All the muscovies prices were high.

There were lots of rooster/cockerels, heaps of muscovies, about 20 turkeys, 20 geese, a few other breeds of ducks, 7 peafowl (all blue, unless you knew the vender!!). Wayne Newman entered about 25 pheasants (mutant, ringneck, reeves), lots of ISA brown layers, 8 Guinea Fowl. That is all I can remember.

It was a big meat sale, with some good birds here and there. Goulburn always has those special birds but, like the pheasants.

Broken Bird

You got some good buys BB, would like to get down to the Goulburn Auction one year!



Thanks
Peacocks Australia