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Season 2 Trailer

April 20, 2026 · 4 min

A sneak peek at upcoming guests during Season 2 of Chook. The Podcast.
Phil and Anne Westwood on 4 Decades of True Free Range Egg Farming

April 13, 2026 · 40 min

For almost 40 years, Phil and Anne Westwood have run Freeranger Eggs in Grantville, 90 km south east of Melbourne. What’s super interesting about Phil and Anne’s operation is that growth has never been part of their business…
Brendon Murphy on Australian Cream Legbars

March 28, 2026 · 45 min

Brendon Murphy presides over the Australian Facebook group dedicated to Cream Legbar breeding. In this conversation, we discuss: How Cream Legbars were created in Australia How to tell the difference between Australian and import…
Rooster Rescuer Lisa Short

March 21, 2026 · 43 min

Roosters can be tragic figures. The reality is, for every hen in a backyard flock, there is a rooster, her brother, that almost certainly didn’t live happily ever after. Lisa Short, from the Victorian-based Rooster Warriors Rehoming…
Hatching egg seller Belinda Burgess

March 14, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min

Belinda Burgess tried having a regular job. She tried retiring. Neither stuck. Despite 12 hour days, 7 days a week, she says running a commercial poultry farm is a good job, a passion. Therapy, even. She sells 30-40+ dozen eggs per week…

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Permaculture Educator Joel Meadows on How to Dispatch a Chicken

December 20, 2025 · 1 hr 10 min

If we could avoid it, we probably would but dispatching a chicken is something every chicken breeder really needs to know as an unavoidable part of their repertoire. If you’re building a homesteader lifestyle, working towards…
Experienced UK Breeder Emma Middleton on Cream Legbar Genetics and Misinformation

December 13, 2025 · 1 hr 16 min

The second in our series of conversations about Cream Legbars, the increasingly popular blue egg laying chicken. This is a really illuminating conversation with the experienced British Cream Legbar breeder Emma Middleton. Emma knows…
Stock Horse Breeder Jeanette Gower on What Chicken Breeders can learn from the Horse Breeding Experience

December 7, 2025 · 1 hr 1 min

Horse breeding and chicken breeding may seem like completely different endeavours but it turns out they have quite a bit in common… and of course they’re underpinned by the same genetic principles. With more than 50 years' experience…
Poultry vet Dr Grant Richards on intestinal worms

November 29, 2025 · 54 min

Worms are often the chief suspect when a backyard chicken gets sick. But how often are they to blame? This is the starting point for my conversation with poultry vet Grant Richards who has spent his 40-year career in chickens and chicken…
Ethan Rivers, UK-based Cream Legbar breeder

November 22, 2025 · 55 min

Cream Legbars are one of the most sought-after chicken varieties among those of us who love coloured eggs. They’re also one of the more complicated chickens to breed well. That’s why I went straight to the source, to the Cream Legbar’s…
Incubation Masterclass with Brinsea Distributor and Incubator Extraordinaire Loi Truong

November 9, 2025 · 49 min

If you’ve ever needed help with or had a question about a Brinsea-brand incubator, Loi Truong is the man who will have come to your rescue. One of the loveliest and most helpful people working in chickens in Australia today, he holds the…
Madelaine Scott: From "Egg Girl" to Successful Businesswoman

November 1, 2025 · 54 min

From 20 chickens as a homeschooling project at the age of 8 to a million dollar business with 5000 chickens, certified organic. As the brains and the brawn behind Madelaine's Eggs, the broad strokes of Madelaine Scott’s story are well…

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About the show

Fresh, free-ranging conversations for backyard chicken keepers and serious breeders. Hosted by former foreign correspondent turned chicken breeder Jane Cowan.