Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Poultry farm at Grasstree Road. Some of the 200 poultry we looked after for about 2 weeks. The feed and water in 11 pens had to be checked twice a day. Most pens had reticulated water as the owner is a plumber. Some of the poultry were show birds and breeders. The owners purchased day old chicks to be raised up for sale, this paid for the upkeep of the show birds. A lot of properties in Alice have chooks for eggs, these being purchased from the farm we looked aft...