I have a Silver Leghorn Roo I got from McMurry's hatchery. He is about 8 months old and has been vaccinated. I do not have a use for him, come get him. I live in North East Texas, south of Longview. jstall At the letter N and the word demand.com
Broiler chickens are put on a finisher feed that is very high in corn, the last seven days. That is where you get the yellow color and they say it improves taste. It also puts a lot of fat on the bird. Maybe it would work on quail. Rabbit pellets mixed with a lot of ground corn.
Has anyone keep their birds laying all winter? If you did keep they laying did you heat the building?
Does anyone know how cold it has to get to affect egg production? I read the post about the heat lamp.
THE ORIGINAL A&M DR THORNBERRY DEVELOPED AND SUPPLIED TO DIAMOND H RANCH WERE BROWN IN COLOR AND MARKETED UNDER THE NAME "TEXAS GOURMET QUAIL" FOR MEAT INDUSTRY. THE WHITE BIRDS WE KNOW AS A&M WERE A LATER DEVELOPMENT PREFORMED AT DIAMOND H RANCH BY EXTENSION SPECIALIST DR. LEE CARTWRIGHT BY...
Chicks4kids, I do not know the answer to that question about them brooding on their own. I incubate all my eggs.
ButterCup, my nephew is going to bring his scale and I will post pictures when I get them. The eggs came from a very large quail farm in Bandera, Texas and they claimed to be A&M...
2 pound white Coturnix quail??? Two pounds???
I have both the A&M whites and the brown jumbo coturnix. There is only one week between them. I plan to weigh them in a couple weeks to see what their weight really is. It's looks like the browns will be a little heaver than the whites. The breast...
I am sorry you lost your chick. There could be a thousand reasons for what caused you to lose your chick but one of the most common is not having the chicks warm enough. They need 100 degrees on their back the first few days and at least 95 degrees in the brooder area for the first week. Then...
A chick needs to be able to get 100 degrees on it's back the first few days of it life. They can not regulate their body temperature the first days. Temperature is very important.
The best rat control is a 2 1/2 to 4 inch pvc pipe about 4 ft long with rat poison (the bar bait type) in the middle of the pipe, placed along the outside edge of your coop. A rat or mouse will run down the outside edge of a building before interring. It will not pass up a tunnel. I am a retied...