Recent content by Reedgirl20

My birds have access to food 24/7. I work full time so generally the birds get weighed in the evening after all the other chores are done...about 7pm I would say is average. I currently have a set I am growing out to be my replacement breeders. My original set is now over 14 months old and I am...

Definitely good to see some other comparisons. I agree of the three lines I've looked at I would go with the JMF birds for sure. It looks like your eBay birds are more in line with what I saw from my eBay so-called jumbos that I called standard browns during my comparisons..... SB 3 wk hen...

Hi all, been a while since I've had a chance to do some updates here but finally had a free day today to do some weigh ins and comparisons. I have lost or culled a few hens in the last six months and am down to one pen each of the original JMF and CL birds as well as a pen of JMF-F1 birds who...

Here is a picture of the canned quail and a picture of how much meat you can obtain off one can of quail compared to the bones left. I think this allowed me to get more meat of a quail then any other cooking method so far. Btw, quail sandwiches are delicious ;)

Yes it was cold pack. Just butchered like I normally do, snipping out the backbone gutting them. Left everything else intact and shoved them whole into pint jars. Added 1/4 tsp salt per jar and about one inch of water to the bottom because I wasn't sure how much natural broth the quail would...

I just set over 90 eggs, a mix of JMF and CL eggs. Will probably set another incubator full in a couple days when some turkey eggs come out. I have to get going on the quails again because have several people on a waiting list and I'm down to only three packages of quail in the freezer, lol.

I use two Brinsea octagon 20 and a separate home made incubator for lockdown especially during the busy hatch season. I have been really busy hatching turkey and chicken eggs lately so haven't even done much quail hatching. The nice thing about the Brinsea is I can put any size egg, no rails to...

I love the coop run idea with the cattle panels. One question though, to make the arc high enough for a person to walk in, is one panel enough or did you have to use two?

Ya, it's so funny what predicaments these guys get in when deciding to explore. I had left the cage door open while grabbing more food for them because they had not tried to get out yet before and came back to see this. I first about died laughing and then had to document her shame before...

Thought I would share a picture go my serama chick who tried to make a great escape from the cage but it didn't quite work out.

I am planning on going to the swap. From the Medford area so it will be quite a drive but am excited. I will definitely putting some tickets into that raffle, would love to get those eggs. Fingers crossed, wish me luck ;)

I have used the spiral bands when I can just slip them over the foot without trying to uncoil them and that works well. If I band a bigger quail I use the ones the are harder plastic and they snap close. They snap together tightly and don't come undone but fit loosely on the leg. I have some...

Bend is about a four hour drive if you hustle, plus I work from about 7:30am until about 6pm so really limits what times I can meet up with you. I don't have a whole lot of eggs right now, just put about 300 of them into making dog food on Sunday, lol. I do have almost 30 JMF chicks just...

It looks to me like your chicks are a decent weight and sounds like you found some decent size breeders. Can't help you out with advice on the color genes, I've only had pharaoh colored birds.

I am going to the spring swap, normally it's in canby, Oregon but it got moved to Rickreall this year. That's between Corvallis and Salem from what I can tell.