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Yes sorry for confusion I meant an enclosed moveable tractor pasture pen

Had anyone ever raised quail for meat on a pasture pen like you would chickens? What success did you have and is it a good system? Thanks

Is there any data that points to chickens having different nutritional content i.e more or less fat/vitamins/dark meat etc? Do different chicken breeds have different tastes or makeup or is it down to what you feed em or free ranging? This is out of curiosity as I was looking into raising...

Could be a black rock chicken

Thanks for the reply! this is the first time I've raised canaries and I was kinda worried about it.

Normally I would say leave the mother's too it, because chicks have a yolk sack they can live of days after there born, but if a chick has died off starvation, I would try to force the mothers off the nest, and If not, move them to a brooder. Good luck!

I have a large outside aviary with four canaries in it, one male and three females, one of my canaries has stared to lay eggs and sit on them, and my question is when the chicks hatch is there any special food I should feed the mother etc?

I have 5 coturnix quail on the bottom of an aviary, with canaries and finches, they all get along fine and there are no, inter-species squabbles. If your looking for a bird that is hardy, canaries have got you covered, they can survive much lower temperatures than finches, all they need is a...

Yay I got a podium, congratulations to MoonMoon and ThreeHens2!!

I'm not sure the gender, but they could be Easter eggers

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Name: snowy Breed: Welsh Harlequin Gender: hen Age: no clue! About her: we bought her from a breeder about 4 months ago, and she was the prettiest harlequin of the flock!

Name: Benjamin Breed: silver partridge cross cuckoo Pekin bantam Gender: Cockerel Age: 1 year About him: our old Pekin bantam roo unfortunately died in a fox attack, so we went to our local poultry breeder and I just couldn't resist him!!

Yes, I've heard of roosters getting sore throats, I would just leave it for a while and see if it gets better, if he is behaving normally then it's probably nothing to worry about

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