WHERE Jeff Rogers works, there is a lot of crowing. And barking. And grunting. And even some whinnying. But he just loves it.
And this is why Jeff has spent more than two decades involved with putting together both the ever-popular poultry show and the animal nursery at Mudgee Small Farm Field Days.
In fact, he loves it so much, in the past four years, he has taken over running both events with Pat and Dot Birchall.
But this will be Jeff’s last year running two of the most popular exhibitions at the field days.
Jeff has had a lifelong love of chooks, pretty much breeding every kind he could lay his hands on.
He started breeding Australian Game Pile in the early 1980s. And it turned out he took to it like a duck to water, winning at Sydney Royal Show with his feathered friends in 1986.
“I’ve always had purebred fowls, but I only started showing them once I got married,” he said.
“What I have always loved is the friendship in the poultry world. They are a group of very friendly people.”
Right now Jeff has close to 200 fowls on his 68 hectares at Rylstone, where he also runs some cattle, some Boer goats and Dorpers.
His chook breeds include Anconas, Langshans, Australian Game Piles, Sussex and Silkies.
