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  1. Chicken Man Dan

    Moving adult coturnix outside

    Hi everyone! We are in Southern Ontario and spring has finally sprung! We have 6 quail inside right now living at room temperature, but we want to get them outside asap so we have more space in the quail room (my office where I should be doing work). The outside temps this week are going to be...
  2. Chicken Man Dan

    Hatching Buttons and Coturnix Together

    Hi everyone! I've been keeping coturnix for a few months now and hatched a few dozen of them. I'd like to try hatching some buttons WITH some coturnix together in the incubator. I realize that the buttons will hatch sooner, but has anyone had luck hatching them together? Would anyone advise...
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    No such thing as free range eggs

    I found this comment from a news site quite funny and thought I'd share: "I'd be delighted to see the banishment of the phrase "free range egg(s)". There has never been and, likely, never will be an egg that can move freely around the barnyard unaccompanied. Its hen can roam at will, 'range'...
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    New pullets are here!

    Just picked up two new hens today to replace one I dispatched a few weeks ago. We finally got the barred rock we wanted and a columbian rock x red. Our two red sex links were NOT happy with the new comers, but at sunset we found them all roosting together happily. The only thing that bothers me...
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    Poop free heated water

    I bought a heated dog bowl and wanted to make sure that the birds wouldn't either end up in the water or poo in the water. I've seen a few ideas online using bent wire, but I didn't fancy drilling holes in the bowl housing. Instead I added a vac formed dome to cover it. It looks a little like a...
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    Toronto Update

    Here is an interesting article with information on where Toronto is in regards to changing the bylaw. Very promising: http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=183707 Enjoy the read!
  7. Chicken Man Dan

    New from Ontario

    Hi everyone! I've been lurking on here for quite a while and have had pretty much every question answered through reading everyone's posts. This is a great site, and I look forwarding to contributing to it. We got our first 3 birds in July 2011 and everyone seems happy and healthy. None of the...
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