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Gail’s Place

Name: Gail’s Place
Address: Halifax, QLD, 4850, AU
Telephone: +61477352169

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We are re-homing place. Think beyond kerb-side recycling. We take ducks, geese, chooks or guinea fowls you are unable to care for.

Let us help you save on dump fees and give your unwanted items a new purpose. Call us today see how we can help you.

10/10/2026

My heart is broken today and the world seems a bit dimmer. One of my newborn kids was dead this morning when I went to check on them. I'm not sure why. My confidence is a little shaken today. I tried training it to a bottle yesterday and I'm not sure if my efforts contributed to his passing or if he had a birth flaw or if my pleas for no more triplets was misheard by the universe. Whatever the cause, I go to work today with a heavy heart and a bruised sole. Rest easy little one and know you were loved for the short time on this earth. 🥺

09/10/2026

Another set of triplets. What is going on???

04/10/2026

Spring has sprung on the farm 🌻💐🌺🏵️🌞

Yesterday morning I woke to a bright beautiful day with crippling back pain. Doing the morning chores nearly killed me...I know - dramatic but at the time it felt like it.

Even the sight of 9 beautiful day old chicks could not ease the pain. They are the cutest balls of fluff. ❤️

A trip to the hospital, thank you Dean for answering my call, sorry I scared you on the trip to town for every bump in the road. Thank you to Dr Newman at the Ingham Hospital, sorry to disturb your weekend away. Some Oxycodone, a few needles of local anaesthetic, a steroid and strict instructions to keep moving but not major effort. A list of stretches and walking to do. And a medical certificate to not work for at least 5 days. 🥺

It turns out moving half of tonne of animal feed by hand by yourself at 56 in a day is not great for the back.

So this morning, nursing the after effects of an Oxycodone headache I attended to farm chores.

Only to discover a sight that made my heart almost burst.

Puddle my female goose has successfully hatched at least one Gosling after three failed attempts.

Whilst I'm feeding the goats I could not find Mavis. I looked to the back of the paddock and called her. She came up, looking trim and fit, not pregnant at all. A walk down the back revealed not two but three beautiful beautiful kids. My poor heart can hardly handle the cuteness.

My back is still sore but following the doctor's orders, continuous gentle movement, any lifting is done very consciously and lots of ice packs I managed to get chores done...just took a bit longer.

I love farming life but I need to remember that a body needs good care so I can keep doing this for many more years to come.

16/09/2026

Looking at this picture you would not believe that an hour before i was screaming at him, calling names that would make a sailor blush because he had me pushed up against the side of the shipping container whilst he tried to get his third breakfast of the morning (he thinks he's a hobbit).

After we sorted that little skirmish, he.wandered off through the purposely left open front gate to eat the cane regrowth in the paddock we slashed beside the house. It gave me time to sort through some stuff I brought home from my parents' farm.

Whilst I was totally engrossed in what I was doing he wandered back in and decided to investigate what I was doing in case he could offer any assistance. Well I must have been doing it right because no advice was given and he insisted on a kiss. Bless his heart.

Once a bottle fed baby, always a baby. Just a humungous baby who does not know his own strength or the lethality of his single horn.

I may threaten to make him into roast (daily) but I do love him.

15/08/2026

Look at this cutie.

His name is Samson.

He is a wether dwarf goat.

He looks so angelic. You would never know that at 10.30 last night he got his head stuck in a gate and was crying like he had been stabbed. He got his head in but could not get it out because his little horns kept him stuck.

He fought me every step in trying to get him until I realised as I was pushing his head down to reverse it out of the gate I was pushing his nose into the pot of soil the gate was sitting on. Problem clarified, solution found, goat free.

Get goats she thought. How hard can it be? It'll be wonderful. Hmmmm, animals test every thread of patience I possess....but I love them.

14/08/2026

Banjo's POV

"I am going to ignore you and look out the window to teach you a lesson for not sharing all you battered sav with me, you only gave me half AND then you roused on me when I jumped across your lap trying to get out your window to a barking dog while you took a dumb photo. I don't care that the window was closed and the barking dog was in his own yard! Let's see how you like being ignored."

Check out the dumb photo. Are they mistaken or just giving us a heads up for work to be done next year?

12/08/2026

My ride or die buddy. Banjo is loving me spending extra time at home. His love and total acceptance is helping me over the hump of overwhelm.

Thanks Banjo, you are the best.

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10/08/2026

Help!

Mum says we are old enough to spread out wings and find new homes.

We are 19 weeks old, Bonds Backyard Layers. We will start laying in the next few weeks.

If you have space please message our mum. She would love to hear from you.

A little about us (me and my 53 sisters).

We love....

* Getting under mum's feet when she tries to feed us

* Sleeping anywhere we want except the pen she built for us

* Being fed at daylight (but will accept any time really)

* Give peck kisses, and....

* Eating mum's pot plants (yummy)

Our dislikes...

* Dogs and pigs that eat us

* Being told to stop eating mum's pot plants

* Sharing our pen with goats

* Sleeping in the house mum built us...

* Staying in our fenced yard.

We can be collected from mum's place for $33 each or mum can deliver us for $35 each.

Please call or mum has threatened to see us to KFC!!

Yours in feathers,
Henrietta the chook

26/03/2026

Tuesday I received a call offering me 100 day old chicks from the hatchery due to an over hatch. Of course it was YES!! A quick calculation of time...I would have enough time to get to Townsville and back, drop off the chicks and be at work by 2.15pm.

What I failed to include was...one pig out and in my attempt to get one pig in I ended with 6 pigs out. 🤦🤦🤦🤦 It took another 1.5 hours to get all of them back in the pen. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

Instead of leaving at 7.45am I left after 9am.

Second variable...roadworks. There were three lots yesterday and I'm sure the universe knew I was behind schedule because I got every red light. 😳🤯

I was meeting my godson and his wife at the hospital. She has been in for 8 weeks due to a brain bleed. Thankfully she is on the way to recovery. ♥️ Any spare prayers for her continued recovery would be amazing. 🙏

When I arrived she had gone for some tests so Zane and I had a coffee and a chat. It's hard to reconcile that this man was once a pageboy as a 6 year old at my wedding, he will be 37 in June. Time flies when you're not looking. 🫩

I then made my way to the airport to pick up my precious cargo...100 day old Bonds backyard layers. I arrived a little later than planned, only to be told the flight was about an hour late. 🤬

This resulted in getting to work late. 🥺 But I had my chicks. 🥳

Today I had to separate the chicks because my brooder is too small for 100. Instead of building a brooder from new materials and hundreds of dollars I repurposed an old wardrobe. I think it will do the job. 🙂

I hope you are having a great day...I am.

Take care.
Gail
Xoxox

24/03/2026

Who is the happiest dog on the planet? His mumma, that is me, took him for a walk down the back. Birds, butterflies, bugs and lots of long grass to roll in. Doggy heaven.

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