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    Bob-Bird

    bah, I didn't get a notification that anyone had responded. Good thingI checked back. These woudl all be the result of female coturnix and a male bobwhite. I have this whole batch still together, that is to say the supposed bob birds in with my obvious coturnix, and I just got my first egg...
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    Bob-Bird

    I believe I have some bob Birds.... I moved recently in August and all my quail ended up rooming together for a while and I have Male Bobwhites in with my coturnix. I've been hatching eggs like a fiend....and noticed these odd birds popping up. They're kind of a sooty darker brown, a couple are...
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    Jewelry Made from Chicken Feathers!

    Thanks! I use all kinds of feathers....hard wing feathers and softer saddles and hackle as well. Every one is beautiful!
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    Jewelry Made from Chicken Feathers!

    Thank you for the compliments! I have gold plated and surgical steel....if you want I can include a spare set with a pair 9just make a note upon checkout) so you can swap them out if one doesn't work. I also have clip on hooks if those work for you. I bought them for that reason...though they...
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    Jewelry Made from Chicken Feathers!

    Thank you so much! I actually had 100% positive feedback until yesterday. Some idiot was mad that I held her to her sales policy and asked for a refund after she didn't ship out my item after 2 weeks and then left me negative feedback without explanation. And Etsy refuses to do anything about...
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    Jewelry Made from Chicken Feathers!

    I pretty much just buy my dyed feathers now, I did try dyeing them myself, but it's a huge hassle for the amount of feathers I have to dye versus how many I use. A lot of people use RIT, a fabric dye. I had purchased and started with cherry red and fuchsia to start....and all my feathers were...
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    Jewelry Made from Chicken Feathers!

    The wing feathers are a little more tricky....I have a problem not ruffling up the surrounding feathers and clipping close enough to the skin without damaging the skin. I had used scissors originally but I think some short nosed wire cutters might work a lot better. Assuming you have an average...
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    Jewelry Made from Chicken Feathers!

    I wish I knew how to make a quill pen! i usually find my molted feathers are all yucky by the time I get to them. I just clip off the ones i want.
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    Egg Laying Mystery

    Thats what i've heard...that they're just monsters...which is why I'd purchased them, they're in demand around here. So I found a rooster for cheap on craigslist, and I asked the woman if she was expecting to sell any more, and she said that honestly she had ordered some maran eggs to hatch and...
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    Jewelry Made from Chicken Feathers!

    Yeah so I've heard....the new craze. And I do mean people have gone completely crazy. I always just admired how beautiful some of my EE roosters were! and for the longest time I of course didn't have a use for so many roosters that I got when I ordered/hatched chicks, and they were butchered...
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    Egg Laying Mystery

    I do have some Jersies in the mix..... or so they were advertised. They're over 18 months old and no bigger than my barred rocks. *sigh*
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    Egg Laying Mystery

    Awesome....the ''perfect storm'' theory makes sense.... and I did kind of think of an egg eater but these guys have all been together for so long, I used to find the occasional broken egg because of course they insist on using the same nest...but I haven't found a scrap of shell or goo...
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    Egg Laying Mystery

    I'll say again. They were not laying a single egg for at least 6 weeks before the move. At which point they had all been in this coop for over 18 months. I just find it hard to believe given the variety of breeds and ages involved, that all 50 birds completely stopped laying for 8 weeks due to...
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    Egg Laying Mystery

    Then you didn't read the whole story. They hadn't been laying for many many weeks BEFORE I moved them.
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    Egg Laying Mystery

    Before you say so.... yes I know there's currently a thread on why your hens may not be laying. I found incredibly unhelpful, and tried to post my own story and got no response. Also multiple times in the past i've posted questions only to have someone respond with links to other threads or...
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