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Edit to add: I think yall are commendable for wanting to help as a reflex but this is not a request for advice or help. Please note the first two lines after this carefully. Where are you in your journey and what kind of production level? what do you do / want to do with your eggs? I am now 5...

How do you deal with all the crowing? Once the boys reach 5 weeks its just constant crowing back and forth between my different systems. Lots even start stalling out in weight. Im one step from building a shed to put them in lol. little less distraction maybe. My garage is large enough for 3...

I have a group of birds I want to breed and improve on. Currently 11 hens and 8 roosters. I want them to be in 4 groups of 5 (4:1) so I need to expand from what I have. Right now if I seperate them into the grouping total it would look like (3:1) (3:1) (3:1) (2:1) and be about 4 months before...

Black plastic tote Kiddie pool emergency blanket hardware cloth monstrosity Built to spec wood full term brooder Finally think im going to start re using this last brooder. all the others were one and done basically. not the biggest fan of improvised brooders at this point. lets see your...

without buying more hatching eggs is it possible for me to expand my breeding groups out in a way that doesnt create complicated lines of breeding. I have 11 hens and want 5 groups. I can imagine doing (4,1)-(4,1)-(3,1) organizing for smaller roosters and then expand out (5,1)-(5,1)-(5,1) pretty...

My guess is since he started crowing last week he's been busy doing other things... All the other birds he is with I am fairly sure are hens and have all grown 35-40g in the last week. I have separated them but not entirely sure that is going to help him eat more because now he is spending all...

So I have read a lot of conflicting info. Do I seperate my males from the hens for a few weeks or are they fine as long as the ratio is ok?

Care to share what your record keeping categories are? maybe why you find them relevant if its not super apparent. I am building up my covey and hope to keep a few separate bloodlines of each type of bird so that means lots of record keeping but I am not sure where to start aside from the basics...

one of my week old coturnix developed a limp. I believe it is due to me putting things that connect to the edge of the brooder so they were scrambling over things with low grip. The right leg btw (which is shown as your left in these photo's) Bird in hospital cage with one of the smaller but...

Thanks for clicking! I have a few questions and experiences I would like to share to see if I am experiencing normal variables. Experiences: I notice that when I go into lockdown and increase the humidity the temperature goes down and tends to stay down. I know there is a coefficient...

I got some quail eggs from a dude on craigslist. I asked about the lineage and it turns out I bought my eggs from probably the most smooth brain quail owner known to man because his response was awesome after he asked to see the colors instead of answering me. Guess that makes me pretty smooth...

I see that most recommend you wait a few weeks to give chicks sand to bathe in. I know mostly because of illness borne in the sand with the heat but is that the only reason? can they have it supervised as long as I remove it?

So now that my first hatch is wrapping up (Celadon Coturnix). I am wondering what I should be aiming to review to increase my hatch rate. Honestly I feel like everything is so in the air with it being my first hatch I am having a hard time taking anything away from the experience. Some facts...

Hi All, I have already learned so much from here I figured I should make an account