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    How to get guard dog puppy used to my animals?

    This might should have been posted in the general discussion forum, but here goes. I'm raising quail and rabbits in an urban back yard. They're all caged but come next spring I'm going to set up grow-out tractors for both, which will increase their exposure somewhat. I get nighttime visits...
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    What to do with aggressive silver fox rabbit doe?

    She gets all the hay she can eat (but none of mine seem to care much for timothy or alfalfa or orchard grass) and most days I give her dandelions (I mowed yesterday so today I was short on dandelions and went to my neighbor's yard this morning to 'steal' some). I keep straw so I might try some...
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    What to do with aggressive silver fox rabbit doe?

    Why, does he need to be clawed? [rimshot!] Just kidding. I'm not trying to be a smart-alec but what can a vet do? These are meat rabbits, my first rabbits of any sort that I bought home other than in a game bag, so I'm new to all this. I figure the vet will cost more than the doe did so it...
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    What to do with aggressive silver fox rabbit doe?

    I posted a couple of weeks ago about a rabbit doe that fainted when I was trying to remove her from her cage. By the next day she seemed perfectly normal, and continues to appear to be in fin health, but now she attacks me whenever I try to touch her. She rares up and lunges at me and bats...
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    Can quail tolerate -40c?

    Dunno about quail but -40°C = -40°F. It's the one and only temperature where the two scales match. This guy (in Montréal) claims his survived at -31°C. It got down to single digits °F here this past winter and my quail got along fine but my hatch rate plummeted.
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    What's been eating at this quail egg?

    I'm hoping one of you more experienced fellas might have seen this before and know what it was that broke into this egg. This is an odd-shaped and odd-colored egg for my (cotournix quail) flock (I think) because one of my roosters went psycho a couple of days ago and stressed-out the hens. I...
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    Do roosters get mean as they age?

    Mostly I feed them burgers and fries. Once a week they get pizza. All seriousness aside, I feed them a blend of 80% (four parts) Dumor 16% layer crumble (for calcium) and 20% (one part) Kalmbach 28% turkey starter (for a dash of extra protein), same as they've been eating the for last 45 weeks...
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    Do roosters get mean as they age?

    I hatched my first quail on June the 9th of last year so I'm not exactly an "old hand" at this but from the start I figured it was good policy to not make hens have to put up with a roo living among them if there was no reason to. Not because I anticipated that my birds were going to be on the...
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    Do roosters get mean as they age?

    The hens in my most productive cage are so beat-up, I moved the rooster into a hospital cage and I might retire him. They're all about nine days from being a year old. I keep five hens and a roo in this particular cage, and he's always been pretty rough on the hens. In the last week they all...
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    Rabbits fainting?

    Thank you for the replies. This morning she appeared absolutely normal and all her food from the night before was gone. When I fed her this evening, she acted like she was starving to death (= back to normal).
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    Rabbits fainting?

    Yeah, I know this is a question better asked at back yard herds but there's a hiccup with my account over there and I don't have the time or the inclination to straighten it out so I'm asking here. Can rabbits faint? I tried picking up a 7 week-old silver fox doe (I bought for breeding meat...
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    How old before you give up hope of hens laying?

    So nobody has an opinion on 'how old before you give up hope of hens laying?'
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    How old before you give up hope of hens laying?

    How old can a cotournix hen get before you give up on her ever laying an egg? I have seven that hadn't laid an egg at 12 weeks. Then at the twelve week mark, I moved two of them into a breeding pen because that rooster had lost two of his hens (not obviously killed by the rooster), and I...
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    Estimating boneless weight from bone-in & spatchocked carcass?

    I'm working up details for an acquaintance who said he'd like to know more about my quail-raising project. One of he things I'm sure he'd like to know would be the cost of feed versus the amount of meat that comes from it. The problem I'm having is -- and maybe it's me but -- when I butcher...
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    After a failed hatch, I'm looking for a new bird that is sort of quieter than ducks. Are quail quieter in general?

    I've only been at this since May but my experience is the opposite from Pipsnchicks's. I'm raising jumbo browns and I've never once heard the roosters in either of my two breeding cages crow. I separate the birds by sex as early as it's possible to feather-sex them, three weeks. The brooding...
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