The first meeting of the Border Landcare Organic Group (BLOG) for 2011 will be a question and answer session with poultry consultant Michael Sommerlad.
Michael heads Poultry Works, an independent consultancy offering specialist advice and practical support to free range and organic poultry producers. If you have any questions about rearing chooks, here is a golden opportunity to hear from a very experienced specialist in the field.
Michael Sommerlad was a poultry fancier from a very young age, trying his hand at breeding, incubating, brooding, rearing, and showing. This passion for all things poultry landed him with the schoolboy nickname “Chookie”.
Later in life he went on to work in the conventional egg and chicken meat industry, managing broiler breeder farms and a genetics quarantine facility in the NSW Riverina area.
He later became involved in the management of a fledgling organic chicken meat operation. Then, in 2002, with over 25 years’ practical poultry experience, Michael launched his own consultancy, providing assistance to conventional, free-range, organic and bio-dynamic poultry and game bird producers.
This Saturday’s meeting will allow participants to write questions on a whiteboard for Michael to answer. The venue is Helen Petrie’s property, 3km south of the Tenterfield PO on the western side of the highway.
The day will begin with morning tea at 9.30am Queensland time (10.30am NSW time) and Michael’s talk will start at 10.30am (11.30am NSW time), followed by lunch about 12pm (1pm NSW).
Bring lunch or morning tea to share, cup, plate, a chair and a hat. The meeting is free and visitors are most welcome.
Information on BLOG activities can be found at www.granitenet.com.au/groups/environment/blog
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