Posts by MckinneyTXBYC

Are my 3 1/2 week Quails Male or Female?  

Our quails will be 3 weeks old in about another week and are doing very well. We are wanting to move them out to there cage we built for them. It will have a tarp around it for weather or etc and out temp here in Texas is 95 in the...

Notice today it looks like the poop is getting back to being more solid. I guess since i moved out the 2 bad hens my 8 hens are way happier. Last 2 days have been a bit cooler but not too much cooler. I will post more if this...

Well today we have a very rainy day here in the 70's and 80's temp. Most days here are in the 90s and very warm here in North Texas. Just all of sudden tonight when were putting them up into the coop the poop looked like this. I...

That is the bad thing we did, we got the news this past weekend and let them in the coop with the other 8 hens. Our 8 hens are nearly 5 months old and the 2 new hens are nearly 6 months old. We put the 2 new hens in a large dog...

We have 8 hens 4 being red stars and 4 sussex and they just started to have runny chicken poop today. Just got 2 new hens 1 month older than they are. One of the new hens keeps pecking all my original 8 i have had since a week...

We got 2 new hens that around a month to month and half older than our current hens. One is a red star sex link and the other is a black star sex link. We already had 4 red star sex links and 4 speckled sussex since they were a...

Yep on our chicks we always used the red light bulb. So funny we had 2 red light bulbs we got this year burn out on us. So far the white light isn't really bothering the quails too much yet. I will keep a eye on it and see how it...

Our red bulb just went out in the brooder keeping our 5day old quails. We replace it with just a regular 60watt light bulb. Will this be fine or should be buy something different? I know with chickens that red is best but not...

Thanks we always do our Wazine around end and the first of the month. I hope everything works out adding the 2 new ones to the 8 hens i already had.