No worries about getting new eggs. Thanks though, that very kind of you. I think I'm going to have a full bator with all the eggs I've been collecting from my own quail.
I picked them up in person from her. Shes very nice.
Its day 22 today. I broke open the eggs today after only have a few hatch. About half of them seem to only developed half way and the others were duds(no embryos at all). I'm not sure what went wrong. I kept a very close eye on the temp and...
I think its a blast minus that 3/4 of my eggs did not hatch..... I'm a bit disappointed. Though the few quail that did hatch are flipping cute! Tomorrow I'm going to go threw the eggs to see if they they had growing embryos or they were just duds.
Bait your traps with raw meat. Chicken hearts and livers work well. I would set the trap reasonably close to your coop. The lil bugger knows he has a easy meal there.
My A&M roo is the loudest of the bunch. Though I guess I like it. Its a neat sound. My brown roo that has 5 ladies to himself rarely crows. My 2 A&M roos share 3 ladies and crow quite a bit.
There are tons of Fisher Cats in Eastern CT. I spotted them 6 or 7 times now, and hear their crys once in awhile.
My neighbor lost a large goose to one 2 weeks ago. He tracked it until finding the parts of the carcass 400 yds from the pen. He ended trapping it in a HH trap. I got to go see it. I...