Posts by chrishel

Quote: Originally Posted by PoultryPower  My sister and I are looking for a fun hobby that we can make a little money on. We have always loved quail and have dreamed and talked of owning some for years. We...

They will lay with or without males.  I can see your point about having no males, but I don't know anyone who will sell you just layer chicks.  They are hard to vent sex.  I've tried.  Over and over. ...

We had a chick like that and we named him Pokey.  He turned out to be the only male in my small hatch (4 total).  When he became mature, he totally scalped and blinded one of the hens and we had to put her down.  We came...

If I remember correctly, out of the 40 eggs, 38 pipped.  2 did not zip correctly.  The two eggs that did not hatch came from the same hen, so it was probably hen related.  I did not mark the dates on the eggs, so I don't...

I did it for 10 days and everything hatched out well.  I had four hens at that time and collected 40 eggs.  I have to look back at some of the topics here.  We were collecting eggs for a hatch-a-long and there were some...

I let my eggs sit on the kitchen counter for up to 1 week before I get them in the fridge.  But that's just me.  I want my eating eggs to dry out a little so that the air sac is bigger and it makes them easier to peel after...

I've use the pop bottle waters.  Similar to the test tube waters they have for cage birds.  My birds also transferred very quickly to rabbit type waters, however, their keeper (me) didn't and the cheap bottle I got leaked and...

I wonder if that is a Maine Coon thing?  This cat loved to be around like a dog, but not touched.  He hated men because some guys taunted him as a kitten and they continued to taunt him as an adult especially after he...

Bettacreek, I agree.   I keep Cots for eggs for my own personal use, then for the fun of raising them, which precipitates a quail dinner or two.  I purposely don't keep track of money because I know it's a loss in my...

What is your goal?  To sell eggs?  The males are kind of useless for that. You could decrease to 1 male for 7 females especially if you just want the male for propagation reasons every so often (replace your hens as they...