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Any specific types/brands you recomend? Or just any? Will paint prolong the life of my brooder?

What paint or stain can I use for a brooder that will extend it's life and is safe for chicks?

Can they do swans? Turkeys?

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...

They can hatch peacocks! :D

How many eggs can a broody bantam hen hatch? Chickens - Guinea - Duck - Goose - Quail - (can they even hatch quail?)

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...

Thanks! I was told 12 quails would consume 1 kilo of food every 3 days (Approx) do you think that is correct or not?

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 mean stuff I can find at a grocery store or a bulk store, like hemp seeds etc.

Sorry to take over your post, didn't want to make my own for a question.

if I have 19% protien diet in a 25kg bag what can I add to get it to a higher protien and how much do I add? I will also be feeding insects.

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...

so for brooding it's pretty much 1 Sq ft minimum per chick? Thanks for all the help.