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    What Sex Are My Chuckar?

    I have about 15 of these demon spawn (aka Chuckar Partridge) and I would like to know how to sex them so I can plan a dinner in their honor. These little imps have been terrorizing me for 6 months now and I am pretty sure they are plotting my untimely demise, and I think I heard them trying to...
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    Where do you buy quail egg cartons?

    time for you to get some battery cages made and do some hatching!!! :)
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    Cat Attacked Quail

    You have done everything I would have done, inspect, clean, treat. I think the person closest to an animal is the best person to say when an animal is beyond saving. Many people would not go to the lengths you did for your quail so far. Even if she dies she is lucky to have been treated with...
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    Coturnix Quail Basics- Information and Pictures Galore

    Welcome to the wonderful world of Quail! :) You should be just fine at 3 weeks with warm weather and draft protection. But something else you said concerns me: you have chickens. Are you exercising strict bio-security? I rarely loose more than one in 50 after the first 3 days. If you...
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    Hatching some mountain quail

    YAAAY! (sorry this is a bit late but things been busy here.)
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    Baby chicken with bad leg

    Sometimes that is nature's way. :( glad you have some other fuzzy butts to keep you entertained!
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    Coturnix Quail Basics- Information and Pictures Galore

    Try letting her set a few days and sticking some day old birds under her from the feed store. if its done at night it works pretty good. and there is always craigslist. If my sexlink project was in the laying phase I'd send you some to hatch because I do not have a incubator I am willing to...
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    I have a question for anyone who ties flies (for fishing)

    Google is going to come in handy today.
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    Baby chicken with bad leg

    Well, it should be about time to pull the band-aid off. How is your little chickie?
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    Coturnix Quail Basics- Information and Pictures Galore

    I have been procrastinating culling but today I got a wake up call that I waited too long, the males are fighting. I'm processing tonight. I think I will brine, bacon wrap and glaze them as well, thank's for the idea!
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    Crumbles

    QJ
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    Hunting and the argument against it.

    I harvested my first deer this past year and when I told my mother she all but disowned me. "How could you do it? You're not going hungry!" I tried to defend my position but it caused an even bigger rift so sadly we have also learned to not discuss it, which makes me sad. That deer provided...
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    Baby chicken with bad leg

    Looks like spraddle leg. I will edit to include a link to a thread about how to fix this if I can find it, but the technique is pretty simple. Edited to add: http://www.poultryhelp.com/spraddle.html Get the legs stationary and use a band-aid to tape the legs near each other (not too...
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    Crumbles

    I feed crumbles, but I soak mine thoroughly with water and they waste a lot less. I also read (here in BYC somewhere) that they absorb the nutrients better from wet feed than from dry. (Even better if the feed is fermented but I just can't bring myself to start that project!) Try soaking your...
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    I have a question for anyone who ties flies (for fishing)

    Thanks Dragons4u! I do have a warden I know who helped us out once before, maybe I'll call him if I see something again. Ok, so I have tons of feathers from my peafowl and golden pheasants. I have no idea what to do with all these feathers but I meticulously pick each one out of the pens...
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