| I had to feed the chooks each night, help with making the butter and look after our tame pig. |
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| Russell also kept free range chooks, ducks and geese, most but not all of whom became quite adept at avoiding the local dogs. |
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| A little while later some of the host's lackeys brought out about a dozen chooks in a long wire cage which they laid in the centre of the table. |
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| Having more land of their own would also enable the Heuvels to experiment with different types of feed crops for their chooks, as the Kiwis say. |
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| Jonathon Milne then lists all the sad chooks, dragging their tails as they sleep walk their way to defeat. |
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| Working-class immigrants, imbued with the dream of three acres and a cow, settled for a quarter-acre suburban block and a pen of chooks. |
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| From the outside, with the sounds of laughing children and chooks and the overgrown fence line, you could be forgiven for mistaking Cubbies for some sort of hippy commune. |
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| We had chooks and ducks, and being simple folk we treated some of them as pets, at least in their formative days until they were ready for the pot. |
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| Looking after chooks and feeding dogs were bad enough, but having to empty the dunny can? That was the final straw! |
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| I don't mind eating them because I don't have a Disneyesque view of chooks as being feathered people with human feelings. |
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| The whole concept of large paddocks with lots of free-range chooks is not conducive to the best welfare outcomes for birds. |
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| We used to love playing on a tyre swing and feeding the chickens, or chooks as they were called Down Under. |
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| As well as the chooks, some families have pigs, giving a variety to their fish and chicken diet. |
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| The story describes the dog and the various mischief he gets up to but the crisis in the book comes when the family comes home from visiting Aunt Celia and her chooks. |
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| I remember we used to love playing on this old tyre swing my granddad had hung in a tree and we used to feed the chickens, or the chooks as they were called Down Under. |
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| At Wilkins Public School the students are lucky enough to have a huge playground which includes a vegie garden, chooks, native bees and an outdoor learning space. |
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| They then scattered half a dozen scraggy chooks hell, west and crooked. |
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