Recent content by AMontey

Battling a bobcat... Bobcat 2, Us 0.... of all things he took my favorite hand raised rooster...

Ridgerunner, Thanks for your information-packed reply. Running everything in my head, I'm wondering about storage. The quail eggs had been sitting for days to weeks before I started incubating, so who knows about the freshness. I did have a turner, so they were turned adequately, but I...

Hello, two months ago a friend gave me fertilized quail eggs and I bought one of those styrofoam incubators. I researched temps and humidity and set everything up. I bought an automatic turner. Took them off at 14 days to settle. Seventeen days later, nothing. Waited... 19 days later... nothing...

live in CA and wonder if you would be willing to ship... looking for blue australorps and don’t mind hatching them out...

Peacock Experiment, Part Deux... The peahens laid their eggs about 4 weeks ago, and we've been on chick watch for last three days (counted 28 days from the time they started setting on the eggs). How long do we wait to start rousting and checking eggs? Also, both hens decided to split eggs...

The hens are setting..! Day 26 to go and counting...

? Boy meets girl ? I have been raising my peachicks, and today I noticed my white chick jump on top of another chick, grab its head and start, um, "going to town." The chicks are just over a month old... I had my fingers crossed that the white would be a boy. Is this a good sign, or do they...

We'll learn together as we go along...! We are hand feeding treats to the little peeps so they will be tamer and encouraged to stay at home once they get to go outside...

My hens are laying for the first time and I have a total of three eggs now... there's nice clean shavings in the main coop (where we moved the first egg as above) and they both have chosen to lay the next two out in the dirt in the middle of the barn. We've moved and gathered the eggs to a safer...

I am wondering how your hens did..? My hens are laying for the first time and I have a total of three eggs now... there's nice clean shavings in the main coop and they both have chosen to lay in the middle of the barn. We've moved and gathered the eggs to a safer corner where it looks like...

Hi there, I was following another thread and spotted your profile pic... are you working on a black peacock color..? The breeder I got my females from said he has a fellow breeder in The Midwest who has been working on a black peacock and supposedly my hens were from one of the pairings... just...

They're getting so big...! Little crown tufts starting to show...

I edited it to include another view of the chicks... thanks!!

I call this "Peachicks in Repose" They are out while their box gets cleaned. They love dried mealworms and are learning to eat out of our hands. Today they tried lettuce for the first time. Can't get them to eat fruit yet, but I think it's because I can't get it looking stringy like the meal...

The peeps this morning... can't tell the purples apart, which made me wonder, at what age do you leg band..? Are there bands like dog tags that can let someone know where to call if found..? I've read the article on banding but didn't really go into how leg grows into band, age to band etc...