I have some questions about brooding ducks and geese.
When can I allow them to start swimming? My brooder is large enough for a kiddie pool and I would like to add it to the brooder, I will put the water at 95degrees. And dry them off afterwards.
When can I allow them to start swimming...
I have some questions about brooding ducks and geese.
When can I allow them to start swimming? My brooder is large enough for a kiddie pool and I would like to add it to the brooder, I will put the water at 95degrees. And dry them off afterwards.
When can I allow them to start swimming...
Thanks for all your help.
would a 8x8 cage be large enough for 15 jumbo type quails?
I think i should do 2 male 13 female? does that seem right? Or should i do 3 male 12 female?
Also will i get edible eggs in a cage with both males and females or only fertile eggs? I'm mostly wanting...
already thought of another question, ive heard stuff about keeping eggs cool for a set amount of days before incubation is this a required period or is it just for if you don't want to incubate the eggs right away?
1. Dust Bath Medium. Can i just use play sand or is there anything specific?
2. If im building an outdoor pen for the dust bath could i bury a litter pan up to the top and fill it with the medium? Does anyone have a better method than that?
3. Breeding Colony question. if i get 1 male 4-6...
I have a few other questions if anyone wants to answer.
1. can you tell the colour of a chick at birth? (weather it will be white, wild type, tibetin etc.)
2. is jumbo a genetic mutation or genetic morph or is any quail over a certain weight considered jumbo?
3. does this breeding set-up...
I changed the in-breeding part of it, and took out the thing about white meat. Thanks again!
Avoid in-breeding, in breeding can be used to capture a good trait or gene in a bird but it can also bring out the bad traits. I recommend not inbreeding more than 1 – 2 generations if you do not...
Thanks.
I read a few pages that said A&M produced white meat, why do people think that?
i.m.o inbreeding should only be done more than 2 generations unless you understand genetics and understand when you've gone to far and need to source an out-cross.
The reason i think different...
...at-least once a day 2-3 times is recommended.
Don’t keep unhealthy looking eggs, toss these.
Never wash fertile eggs!
Eggs should be kept at 15* pre-incubation, only keep eggs out of the incubator for a week.
Incubating
Most of the time artificial incubation is required but on occasions the...
Thanks for all the help guys, i think i'm gonna do a 40" x 40" brooder and get 10 - 15 chicks at a time and once the one batch is ready to leave the brooder ill have more to replace them. id rather have a long process with un-crowded chicks than a quick process with stressed out chicks that cant...