did a game fair last weekend we moved over $1700.00 in birds.
this is the only pair i came home with.
we never have been bantam types here.
they were just so cute i could not pass
mini me chickens are cool. they are fast and the free range flock of large breeds are mean
to them, good thing they...
19 left in the new ones young of the year.
6 breeds with 10 color phases in flock.
had more in the new flock but the red-tailed hawk,snake
neighbors dog had a few along the way maybe 8 or so
none lost to sickness or accidents.
my uncle uses rowe feed.
we live in ohio also.
they custom mill a mix for better protein as in higher amount
plus add blood meal i think.
and a few extra things added to help with egg development
thus increase hatch %. now with this being said his incubation/hatch is up 30%
due to better/more...
no not really! more of a mix of strains. all are variations of the basic type of Coturnix
no matter what hue they are.you have a blood line of quail coturnix were the strain of color is not fixed as of yet.
in a gene pool were a mutation shows up you must either select for the hue/trait or not...
thanks for the help and reply
new here so some of the acronym are new to me.
what is rir,ees. these are picture from my cell phone and not very good.
i will try to get better shots this weekend.
maybe i need a link for common color phases of the Easter Egger chick line.
today they are 43 days old
dark hen on left side is fast and very hard to shoot i would like to breed her to this male shown further below
Below is the cockerel i would like to breed the dark hen to. any info on these would be great thank you.
i love the color pattern but ? the breeding...
need ideas for the hatcher and Brooder/nursery phase of this new venture.
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made a trip to town today did a price check lumber the build a 20x20 fly pen area
sub-divided into 8 pens 5' x 8' 6" x 8' tall each. central walk path 3'x20'
lumber cost...