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Our brooder has hardware cloth sides so I put two dowel rods through the holes and ziptied around the dowel on the outside of the brooder to keep it from slipping.

I vote pullets. I am not an expert chicken sexer though.

It looks like my Silver Laced Wyandottes.

Thanks for the response. Now I can proceed with my planning.

Hi from Albany Maine. I am a complete birdaholic. I have 35 chickens, and 20 new quail babies. My meat birds and turkeys will be here next month. I love spring. Are there any other quail owners out there or anyone who knows anything breeding/housing them. If you do I would love to chat...

Sorry for the newbie questions but can anyone help?? Any info would be helpful and appreciated.

I have been reading alot of the posts about quail and now I have narrowd down my questions this: I purchased 20 baby coutournix quail last weekend. They are Jumbo browns, Texas A&M's, and gold manchurin. At least that is what the guy told me. I hope to breed them so where do I go from here...

Could it be the cold weather?? Sometimes that affects them.

I cant imagine trying to clean it. It is quite small. However, If you only want a couple chickens and have kids that could clean it then you are all set. It is quite cute.

Adorable!!!

Your setup for her is ingenious.

FYI for all. I am drastically downsizing my flock. I will be bringing a number of birds to Chickenstock. I can not tell you what I have right now. I will have a couple of roos, a dozen or so pullets and some straight run. Bantams and Standard. See you guys there.

Just make sure the feed is NOT medicated.

For a few weeks we have been laughing at my bantam hen trying to sit on her BIG babies. Well last night when I went to get eggs she was sitting on 3 eggs and the babies and acted broody. Is this unheard of?

Maybe keep the mom and babies seperate from the drake until they are larger. That is what I would do.