Comments on: All aboard the chicken truck

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 04:51:03 +0000

In reply to Marcus Wong. No not Irwin stock feed that’s close to western mills adjacent to north Melbourne football field .It was where the flour mill which was once known as Kimptons at the Kensington end of Arden street over the river that was once Barastock

By: Marcus Wong

Marcus Wong — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 02:18:39 +0000

In reply to Paul. Thanks! Was Barastoc the complex beside the railway line at North Melbourne, now run by Irwin Stockfeeds?

By: John Cooper

John Cooper — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 23:25:20 +0000

In reply to Tramologist. The chicken in China is much better than the ones in australia!

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 05:32:41 +0000

WOW great post I really find this so fascinating having recently lost my father I can remember as a child when he used to deliver bulk stock feed from Barastock in North Melbourne (up to 10/12 tonnes to many small chicken farms around Victoria.
As well as the tanker of pellets together in the cabin of the old British Layland truck would be a large box of day old chicks on various occasions .
How times have changed since the good old days!

By: Marcus Wong

Marcus Wong — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 03:00:56 +0000

In reply to Tramologist. On my mum's first trip to Hong Kong back in the mid-1980s, my dad's family took her over the border by train to Shenzhen to deliver some gifts to relatives, and they brought home a whole live chicken for dinner.

By: Tramologist

Tramologist — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 02:57:03 +0000

I miss the chicken that are available in markets in China with all the “components” intact.