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    Easter Egger unable to get back into coop

    I had bantams that I would have described as dense. They figured out they could jump up and over a 4ft chain link fence and browse in my neighbor's yard, but couldn't figure out how to get back over when it was time to get back in the coop. They would just run up and down the fence line. I...
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    Easter Egger unable to get back into coop

    Maybe it's a mental block. Try setting a real block beside the ledge to give her something to jump on first before jumping on or over the ledge.
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    Chicken Feeder and Waterer

    They do. If you can zoom in on the picture, there's a stool, a halfway roost, and then their nighttime roost in the upper left corner. The stool and halfway roost gives them something to hop on for fun or whatever, but I put them there to aid them in getting to the top roost. The flaw in...
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    Chicken Feeder and Waterer

    Here's a pic of the last flock after I relocated them to the new coop. You might notice a standard waterer in there and that's because I wanted to make sure they still got water until I "trained" them to get their water from the big one. I did that by sitting in the coop with them and used a...
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    Chicken Feeder and Waterer

    I had six hens until last Fall. I hatched seven birds two months ago but four of them are cockerels. I'm getting seven more eggs this week to hopefully get another couple of hens out of them.
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    Chicken Feeder and Waterer

    There's nothing automatic about the ones I used, but because of the way I designed my coop, I'm able to top off both food and water without going inside. I have holes cut in the hardware cloth to accommodate the openings and nipples. The food container holds 50lbs of food and the waterer will...
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    Introducing new quail to existing flock

    Sadly, I gave up on quail because it was stressing me. I really couldn't understand how such tiny things could end up being so brutal. The worst I had seen was actually a hen almost killing a roo. Although he was alive, I found him with a nickel sized spot on the back of his head that was...
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    First Egg!

    Congrats! When I was raising quail I felt fortunate that they started laying between 7 and 8 weeks. As far as them laying in succession, if they are the same breed, and I assume they are, barring any unforseen circumstance, I think they should start very close together.
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    I think the Tractor supply store sold me geese instead of ducks...

    I'm now curious if OP's ducks are still with us.
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    Jumbo Coturnix quail for Meat?

    This was my favorite part about having quail.
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    Recommendation for large waterers

    I use this. https://a.co/d/d1qYXJK I did have to repair a leak when I first got it but I really like it. I bought the same brand of feeder, too.
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    Cull at what age?

    So, just pick a nice day this week or the next and get it done or is there any benefit to waiting, say, another month? And thank you for the reply.
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    Cull at what age?

    I had seven chicks to hatch two months ago and the fine folks here at BYC have identified four of them as cockerels. I had my fingers crossed for at least four hens, but here we are. I do not intend to keep any roosters and so my question today is, if I'm planning to put the unwanted birds in...
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    Any guesses on this Light Brahma?

    The final suspect. Thoughts?
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    If keeping a dude, which one?

    This was alluded to twice, if the poster before you meant the same thing, but what does this mean? Is it saying that if I hatch eggs from birds that were bred by the BSL that any resulting hens would lay more eggs than if they were from one of the other roos?
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