Recent content by Davisgamebirds

I fell in love, we drove 2 hours to get him and he's cuddly

The Japanese quail did a great job for us this year, and we got to process quite a few today for our plates this fall and winter. We did 64 quail and a big fat duck today and our freezer looks so happy. 109 juveniles moved into the aviary today and should be a good foundation for us in the spring.

I'm happy to have a place to share them, I'm really excited about what we are building up :)

So we have been looking to stud muriel (our nigerian dwarf) and everyone wants crazy prices and we just wanted some milk. We got tired of missing out and found us a good looking buck for our own :)

More new additions today 😍

So I wouldn't want to start a new thread for anything but just figured I'd add stuff here. Turkeys are looking good this week, seeing lots of strutting and more juvenile feathers. My unknown duck hen (roehn I think, maybe) is starting to show all kinds of pretty colors. I turned loose another...

We got a couple new additions this weekend 😍 The call ducks will be getting a much nicer setup this week, I was working with what I had today.

He loves to help us feed and water everyone. I like watching him with the goslings, but I worry I'm playing with fire, they probably won't fear him at all...

Hi, my names chris, and we have a little homestead right now, with the end goal of getting off the current food supply as much as possible, and long term hoping to breed and release gamebirds on a substantially larger piece of land. (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens...

I'm still learning, and it'd be tough call, but I personally wouldn't break lockdown again until I'm either pulling out birds or going into rescue mode. Does your incubator have vents for airflow? It should, and those can be used to help with humidity control. A quick and dirty method that...

What kind of oil did you put on it? Can I ask why? Also how many times have you opened your incubator since putting it into lockdown? You mention a crunchy sound and I wonder if your internal membrane has shrink wrapped and dried up on the chick. It's really hard to stay patient during...

Heard, awesome, I will end up making a post, I want like a thousand and getting there a couple eggs a year isn't going to get me there lol

Thank you, I love them, but really wish I could figure out why they barely lay for me, they've got awesome pens and good feed :/

It was a good week for us, my pheasants laid some eggs, ayam cemani hatched with what appears to be good color, and my ducks and geese are starting to learn to free range!

I am having way too much fun hatching these geese and watching them explore