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Do they willingly go from coop to chicken tractor?

cracked corn is their favorite. The silvers love it too

I know this is an old post but I don't know where that is a five dollar cockeral. I could get 20.00, easy, at the auction. Beautiful.........

60 degrees is a little too cool for one week. Maybe just a regular light bulb in the pen you are keeping them.. If you get a cool night it could be fatal. Mama hen should help. If she is a good broody hen she will keep them warm.

I live in a farming residential area. Its a rural farm town but I only have a little over an acre. I have 4 roosters and they are loud. Tough. I live in the country to be left alone. You don't like my garden or my roosters? I don't like your house color, or your screaming kids or your political...

The chick will kill the quail in about 2 seconds.

Here is something that sometimes works, but is not always practical unless you have an abundance of pens. Quail will "defend their territory." Try mixing the two groups in neutral territory. A pen neither group is familiar with. This can work for both Bobwhites and Coturnix. I have done it many...

Seriously, I just found it. It is a great thread.

Well, I had a nice hatch of blacks during Hurricane Irene. I named the largest one Irene. She happily clucked around the place until one day she just put on 2 pounds, grew spurs, and began to crow. I was happy to have him. His name is now Ivan. Unscientifically, it seems my roosters that start...