Recent content by BillW77

I'll be hatching and selling coturinx quail chicks all spring and summer in Pomfret Center, Connecticut. Our quail are fed high quality organic feed and raised on a small family farm. If you are interested in purchasing some please see my website at www.sunnypatchfarm.com or like us on facebook...

Hello All, I've got guinea keets available in Pomfret Connecticut. You can reserve yours at www.sunnypatchfarm.com or follow our updates at www.facebook.com/sunnypatchfarmct/ We have keets that are 3 weeks old and 1 week old, get a head start on the ticks this year.

And do they tend to be friendly? I would like to add a couple to my small farm in Connecticut www.sunnypatchfarm.com but don't know anything about them yet.

Has anyone come across ordinances that forbid the keeping of quail? I have not done much research in this area so I am curious if those of you who have can answer this question.

I've tried turkey starter (26% protein) and I've used chicken starter (21% protein). The ones on chicken starter started to peck at each other which I came to find out is due to protein deficiency. From that point on I always used the turkey starter.

Is this true and if so can someone explain why that is and what they do to make the first and last 10 days ideal.

Tractor supply and Runnings will carry 40 lb bags sometimes.

I've raised Cornish x and freedom rangers for meat, I prefer the breast meat that the cornish cross gives. It's a better tasting meatier bird imo.

I raised 50 cornish cross chickens last year for 8 weeks and they consumed about 3lbs of food for every pound of chicken. So the 250 lbs of chicken took 750 lbs of chicken feed and they were on pasture in chicken tractor from for July and August.

This is very interesting to me. I've added water to my pig's feed but never ti the chicken feed. A farmer told me that it helps the pigs digest more from it when it is wet, I wonder if it works the same with chickens.

Feathers come right off after a short scald but if there is someone to do it for a reasonable price that's always a great option too.

I've raised freedom rangers but always in a tractor. I use a Joel Salatin style chicken tractor that is 12x12 but never let them free range. I'd be scared of predators, even with the portable electric net the hawks can still get them. I've also raised cornish cross and have had 50 of them in...

Glad to have found this forum. My name is Bill and I've been raising birds for the better part of a decade now. Depending on what I've got going on I raise quail, meat chickens, guinea fowl and sometimes layers too. I've got a small farm www.sunnypatchfarm.com in Connecticut and in addition...