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Chook. The Podcast

Fresh, free-ranging conversations for backyard chicken keepers and serious breeders. Hosted by former foreign correspondent turned chicken breeder Jane Cowan. Accompanies the occasional magazine Chook Journal, fully digital and immersive storytelling available at chookjournal.com.au

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All Episodes

69:49

Permaculture Educator Joel Meadows on How to Dispatch...

Chook. The Podcast ·

2025/12/20

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 sustainability or even if you’re keeping just a few chickens in your backyard it’s an indispensable skill. It can be tricky though to know how to get started. For permaculture educator Joel Meadows, who’s been keeping chickens for 30 years, it was about taking responsibility

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75:57

Experienced UK Breeder Emma Middleton on Cream Legbar...

Chook. The Podcast ·

2025/12/13

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 more than anyone I’ve been able to find about the origins of the breed and more importantly the genetics behind the various traits that make this such a challenging and, as Emma says, “uniquely frustrating” bird to breed. Emma’s been able to answer questions I’ve had

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60:52

Stock Horse Breeder Jeanette Gower on What Chicken...

Chook. The Podcast ·

2025/12/07

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 raising foals, esteemed Australian stock horse breeder Jeanette Gower knows a thing or two about genetics and its practical application. I was keen to find out and find out what the horse breeding experience can teach us about how to approach poultry. In this

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54:22

Poultry vet Dr Grant Richards on intestinal worms

Chook. The Podcast ·

2025/11/29

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 health. Grant sits at the helm of Parasite Diagnostic Services where you can send poultry manure for worm testing so you might think he’d be talking up the dangers posed by intestinal worms. But his perspective is a lot more nuanced than that. We discuss: — How

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54:33

Ethan Rivers, UK-based Cream Legbar breeder

Chook. The Podcast ·

2025/11/22

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 home country of the UK where they were originally created at Cambridge University.There I found experienced Cream Legbar breeder Ethan Rivers who's been breeding the variety longer than it's even existed in Australia. In this conversation we discuss the faults found

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49:20

Incubation Masterclass with Brinsea Distributor and...

Chook. The Podcast ·

2025/11/09

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 Brinsea distributorship in this country and has been incubating for decades. So I couldn’t think of anyone more qualified to talk about the ins and outs of incubating eggs at home. In this conversation we discuss everything from storing eggs prior to incubation and

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53:45

Madelaine Scott: From "Egg Girl" to Successful...

Chook. The Podcast ·

2025/11/01

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 known to Australians. She burst into the public eye as a 19-year-old launching a crowdfunding campaign that raised 60 thousand dollars in 60 days to purchase an egg-grading machine. In this conversation, now 31, Madelaine opens up about the day-to-day realities of

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49:07

Alf Woods, 98 years in chickens

Chook. The Podcast ·

2025/10/25

Alf Woods is a singular figure within the Australian poultry community and someone who, in show circles, truly needs no introduction. He went to his first show at the age of 7 and, now 98, he’s been a fixture at the Melbourne Royal ever since. Having spent 9 decades in poultry, participating at just about every level of the fancy, it was a priceless opportunity to sit down with Alf and pick his brain. This conversation is jam packed with not only instruction in how to breed but anecdotes from a

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50:54

Paul Rodgers, Cofounder, former Australian Marans Club

Chook. The Podcast ·

2025/10/19

As I was researching the cover story for the debut issue of Chook Journal, I kept uncovering question after question. It wasn’t until I met Paul Rodgers that the answers started to really flow. Paul knows probably more than most people about the history of Marans in Australia.When he saw his first Marans, he says it was love. He went on to cofound the short-lived Australian Marans Club. Paul remains passionate about Marans but does worry that careless breeding or a failure to maintain the egg

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16:14

Jeff Mattocks, Bonus chat with the poultry nutritionist

Chook. The Podcast ·

2025/10/12

Jeff Mattocks deserves an award for services to the poultry community, worldwide. He's so much more than a poultry nutritionist. In this conversation, he describes the brooder trick the world’s best poultry keepers use to raise healthy chicks, explains why he can’t recommend any store-bought chook feed and shares his go-to response at the first sign of illness in a flock.

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61:31

Shane Hardy, US-based Marans Breeder

Chook. The Podcast ·

2025/10/05

US-based Black Copper Marans breeder Shane Hardy has been breeding the variety for ten years and what he knows is a mixture of experience and education — he’s been mentored by some of the best. You only have to look at his birds to realise he knows what he’s doing. He’s also had success using a stacking technique to darken eggshell colour in his line. To see Shane appraise a Black Copper Marans cockerel, check out the Spring 2025 issue of Chook Journal which is live now at chookjournal.com.au

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48:19

Peter Tisdell Egg Judge

Chook. The Podcast ·

2025/09/28

What makes a good egg and how to get your hens to produce their best work is a major preoccupation for most of us chicken keepers. Peter Tisdell is one of Australia’s leading egg judges. We get down in the weeds a bit in this conversation— Pete knows a lot. But from egg faults and their causes to what kind of nesting box is best, Pete’s is a useful perspective not only if you’re showing your eggs or preparing to do so for the first time, but more importantly — what Pete shares here sheds light on

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55:25

Fiona Barca, Australian Black Copper Marans Breeder

Chook. The Podcast ·

2025/09/21

Fiona Barca is a recognised name in the Australian Marans community and a bit of a rare commodity. She’s one of the few people exclusively breeding not just a single breed of chicken, but a single variety: black and blue copper Marans. Fiona was lucky enough to obtain some birds from Avgen, the company that imported copper Marans and other rare breeds from the UK. In this interview Fiona shares:How she breeds them, as four families How she’s dealt with faults like bent toes and mossiness She also

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39:06

Jeff Mattocks, Poultry nutritionist on digestive grit

Chook. The Podcast ·

2025/09/14

Jeff is a poultry nutritionist who’s spent three decades working with pastured poultry producers. He’s done more than anyone else to raise awareness about the need to feed your chickens digestive grit. Digestive grit is very different to shell grit. To see pictures of the kind of stones he’s talking about, check out his article in the September 2025 issue of Chook Journal, a fully digital experience available now on our website chookjournal.com.auIn this conversation Jeff explains: * How digestive

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38:43

Heather Soane, First Australian to Exhibit Black...

Chook. The Podcast ·

2025/09/07

Heather Soane was the first person to show black copper Marans in Australia. She'd been breeding the birds for several years by the time they were officially imported, and believes her bloodline was smuggled into the country from Belgium or Poland. In this conversation Heather discusses: Why she believes her black copper Marans were smuggled into Australia rather than being "Aussie line" recreations How she bred them and what faults she encountered including mossiness, loose feathering ("bustles")

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6:08

Introducing Chook

Chook. The Podcast ·

2025/08/03

Meet your host, former foreign correspondent turned heritage chicken breeder Jane Cowan and get a first listen to highlights from season 1 of Chook. The Podcast, a show for backyard chicken keepers and serious breeders.

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72:22

Megg Miller, OAM, Australian poultry legend

Chook. The Podcast ·

2025/08/01

Doyenne, grand dame, matriarch. However you encapsulate her, there is only one Megg Miller. In this candid and wide-ranging interview, Megg: — Reflects on her adventures over 35 years at the helm of Australasian Poultry magazine including how she navigated what was a male-dominated culture in the 80s when she began showing — Speculates on challenges facing the future of chicken keeping in Australia including her prediction that poultry shows will not continue indefinitely, but go online instead —

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