Recent content by Gentry1350

I did it for a while in the spring, for 40. They loved it and it really cut down on feed costs. I still gave them free-choice pellets. It took them about a week to start really liking it. You can start it with just plain old feed, or you can jump start it with a couple "glugs" of ACV. I've...

Thanks! I need higher protein for my quail and have had an extremely difficult time finding it. I was able to special order game bird starter, but it's medicated... I'm not real close to there, but my husband drives nearby on a fairly regular basis with his job.

That 26% game feed....is that starter, is it medicated? Where is Hoovers?

Not a very good way to start out this year's migration!

Ditto. I'm in TN and I had 11 of 15 hatch from a batch from you last year!

Thanks, gals! I knew y'all would be able to tell me. I just thought he was super-cute and was hoping I could find something similar locally.

Ok, I have a stupid question. Really, just ignorance on my part, but I figured I'd asked some of you first before I started making myself look stupid on other threads...LOL. Later this year (or maybe even next year) I intend to get some Silkies for my daughter. I know NOTHING about Silkies...

I just lost 8 in 4-5 weeks time....but we got revenge. Big bobcat!

If you are using an auto door between the coop and the run, then I would not worry about using hardware cloth on the run, especially for a run that large. Use hardware cloth to secure gaps around the coop itself. Sometimes Wayfair has good prices (and free shipping) on hardware cloth.

I bought a tray for mine so the eggs were always sitting up. I did the "book method" and tilted the entire incubator a couple times per day. It seemed to work pretty well, but I only did that for one hatch.

Congrats on making it here safe and sound! That's a pretty rough trip.

I hope more hatch for you and you have better luck than I did. I got some (not silver) last year. After 2 mix-ups and 5 months of waiting....I finally received a crushed box of eggs. Only 10 of the 120 hatched. So disappointing. They started laying at 5 weeks and laid for about a month (back in...

My dark egg layers aren't laying, so I just have Sex linked EEs. Needing observations from someone more experienced....my very first attempt at hatching my own eggs. Am roo over barred SBEL....are these two boys or four boys? Two of them have very faint dots and two are large dots (fifth chick...

Needing observations from someone more experienced....my very first attempt at hatching my own eggs. Am roo over barred SBEL....are these two boys or four boys? Two of them have very faint dots and two are large dots (fifth chick has no dot). One of these chicks is from a Barred Rock, but...

Welcome! There's also a Middle Tennessee thread, which is more active. I'm just up the hill from you. What chicks do you have?