Meet the team : Jill Weaver

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I grew up on the northwest coast of Tasmania living on a dairy farm. We had Jersey cattle the milk going to pigs, and we sold the cream. I had white Leghorn chooks to earn pocket money with and an Arab mare which was given to me by a family friend when I was just five. I was encouraged to always be kind to all animals regardless of their purpose and as a result I was constantly coming home with stray and unwanted animals that my father would then have to deal with. My mother bred Boxer dogs for many years.

When I married I milked a cow and half a dozen goats, had geese and ducks for meat and eggs and a large flock of ‘mongrel’ chooks. We also had sheep for our own meat and I bred Hereford cattle.

Many years later I was introduced to the joy of keeping pure rare breeds of poultry and so began my passion for all things with feathers. Over the last fifteen years or so, I have learned the value of keeping pure poultry and now show them and encourage other people to always keep at least one rare breed with their other breeds of poultry. I run poultry workshops and help out in several poultry clubs and am secretary for the Tasmanian Rare Breeds Poultry Club.

I keep brown Chinese geese, Elizabeth ducks, pheasants, guinea fowl, and several different breeds of large and bantam chooks including two of the imported breeds into Australia.

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