Hi,

We're looking for a single person or couple with their own caravan to park on our property and look after our home and chickens while we're away. We'll be away for just under 4 weeks.

Some important things for potential house sitters to know about our property:

- We live in rural NSW on a dirt road, the condition of the road varies throughout the year but they'll definitely be some potholes to contend with

- We live a 30 min drive from the nearest township of Kyogle

- We have no mobile phone reception at home but use Wi-fi calling to make calls (we also have a landline phone)

- We have reliable satellite internet with unlimited data

- We use a woodfire heater in our home to heat it during winter, so house sitters will need previous experience in how to use one

- Must be comfortable with handling our small bantam hen, she's very friendly and docile.

- Although we'd prefer you to sleep in your own van, we are more than happy for you to access our home and use our kitchen, living, dining, bathroom & laundry.

Tasks we'd like a house sitter to carry out include:

For our laying hens:

- daily collection of chicken eggs (you can eat them if you like, or place in our fridge)

- letting out the chooks at about midday and locking them up again at dusk

- cleaning out the chook coop (you'll only need to do this 1-2 times during your stay)

- making sure chook feed & water is topped up

For our pet bantam hen "Browny":

Browny is a small fluffy docile chicken that was attacked by something unknown a couple of years ago and lost the use of one of her legs, therefore she can not walk properly and gets around by hopping.

She's currently living inside with us until we finish building her a new predator proof coop.

She spends most of her time in a large dog cage inside but we like to take her outside every morning to feed her and allow her to spend some time on the grass and have a dust bath if she likes, then we bring her back inside. We'd like a house sitter to keep up this routine for her.

Thanks.

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