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    Quail questions

    I loved having my quail. I got rid of them during one of my moves. 1 per square foot is a good guideline but i had some aggressive hens so i had to thin the flock down to 1 per 1.5 sqft. I got about 3 eggs a day from 5 hens. They make great tiny deviled eggs. I have gone to partridge hoping...
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    What’s In A Name?

    Had some time off work so I wasn't covered in metal dust and burns.
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    What’s In A Name?

    When I had cotunix quail all I could hear when they called was "what the f**k" all day long, everyday.
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    What’s In A Name?

    Well I would but they haven't lasted this long. I got out of school over 10 years ago and my last surviving pair was stolen by an ex. I cooked professionally for a few years. I just was at the local fiber fair yesterday where I got a cotton spindle some cotton fiber and some hemp fiber. I knit...
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    What’s In A Name?

    I kept bees for a few years. I lost my hive to a bear and never started it back. In the next year or two I'll be buying and building everything to start back into it. I'm not getting cows and pigs. I'm getting sheep instead. Wool meat and milk with a respect for fences unlike goats. I also...
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    What’s In A Name?

    I am a male named Mark and when I was in school the female friends I had called me ducky because I wore rubber duck pajama bottoms under my torn up jeans. I had a few pair so I was never without my duckys.
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    Leghorn Thread!!!

    I have 3 brown leghorns pullets.they are about 5 weeks old and are the most hateful aggressive and destructive birds I have. The water is always knocked over, the meat birds were bloodied and I had to separate them and my cat is missing fur from the chicken pecking. I put them in with some...
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    Which fence?

    We ha goats of a few mixed breeds from mini to boer. The only fense that deterred them at all was electric mesh. Notice I didn't say stop. We had a Billy mount a female thru the electric mesh once. Yes it was on, yes they screamed, no they did not stop. They learned where the Energizer connected...
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    Mystery chick

    When I got chicks last i got mixed breeds. 2 breeds were yellow chicks. I could only tell them apart because one breed had extra toes. None of the breeds were different sizes. I had brown leghorns, CX, polish and favorolles. My great grandpa keep commercial egg laying white leghorns in the 40s...
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    Mystery chick

    Looks near day old. In a week or 2 it will be easier to tell.
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    Plastic chickenwire?

    It's the metal kind. I've never had any local predator get through chicken wire. I'm sure they could, it's just not happened in the last 13 years. I have a tarp over the chicken wire and down the side that most of the wind comes from for winter. Goats are the only animal we've had get through...
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    My new chicks

    Here is an update a week later.
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    Plastic chickenwire?

    I have a few leghorns in with my CX and they seem so active in compairison to what I've seen online. I like it, makes them more chicken like and less blobby meat ball. I have the rare lap sprinting broilers. Here is Nugget protecting Wis little buddies. It may look like just the CX are eating...
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    Plastic chickenwire?

    Ok thank you all. I don't want to make the run size for these guys smaller so I'll use the more expensive hardware cloth to line the chain link. The top has 2 inch poultry wire across it to guard against Hawks and climbing coons. I have 4 CX as a trial in meat birds and I'm making an 8ft by 8ft...
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    Plastic chickenwire?

    I have some dog fencing sections that I have used as a run extension in the past when the number of chickens starts to exceed my coop size. The only problem I have had with them s that some birds want to sleep in the yard and not in the coop. In the past it has been turkeys ducks and geese that...
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