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    Growing out the birds

    I'm hatching 20+ coturnix quail eggs. I am interested in raising birds for meat, but I'm not figuring out the process. I want to keep the females for laying eggs, but they're also bigger than the males. I keep the biggest to breed and then process the others if I can spare them from my egg...
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    Quail temperament

    I've always read that coturnix are skittish. Supposedly everything makes them startle, flying straight up into the air and sometimes breaking their necks if the cage is too tall. Well, nobody told MY qiuail. Nothing startles them, including my ten lb rabbits hopping over to sniff them or the cat...
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    all who are hatching quail

    I have three coturnix quail (two healthy and one with balance issues) that are two days old and an incubator with about a dozen more eggs. I don't know when they're due, though. I think they're dead but my husband keeps hearing cheeping. I think he's nuts.
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    ➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

    So, how does this work? I got 24 eggs (a&m, jumbo brown and silver) in the mail and am preheating the magicfly incubator so I can put them in before bed.
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    Oh, chickens and tweens are just neverending fun!

    We've got ten ladies, two gentlemen and three or four roasters. ;)
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    Oh, chickens and tweens are just neverending fun!

    Thanks to COVID, my 12.5 year old daughter's classes are all online. She's picked up the habit of bringing her chromebook outside so that her friends can see the chickens. It's a little distracting, but it's all good fun... until she came running inside screaming "MOMMMMMY!!!!! The chickens are...
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    How old are they REALLY?

    Okay. Somebody needs to sit down with these birds and have a serious talk. Their wings are feathered out for the *MOST* part and they're starting to get tail feathers, but the rest is still downy fluff.... but one of them flew out of the brooder today and the rest look like they're close behind...
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    Housing question

    Will quail drink from these? https://www.lcsupply.com/Pop-Bottle-Fountain-Waterer/productinfo/PBFW/
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    Housing question

    The funny part is that I googled using a dog crate to make a two story quail house... and ran across a post about exactly that here on BYC. The *really* funny part is that I was the author, back nearly a decade ago.
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    Dual purpose sex links

    It's not actually my first time, but I didn't do dual purpose birds before. I raised freedom rangers for meat and I forget what else for laying. It's been a few years. (I was SandraMort before, but can't recall my old password)
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    How old are they REALLY?

    We ordered them from Tractor Supply. They arrived on 5/21 and were in transit for 36 hours maybe? Definitely NOT more than 48 or less than 24. Here's the picture from 5/21: Today is 5/24 and they're starting to fall with style, or glide. Whatever you want to call it. They think they can fly...
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    Sous vide

    Has anybody used a sous vide to keep the water at the right temperature for plucking?
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    Dual purpose sex links

    My daughter got dual purpose sex link (cinnamon queen & black) chicks this week. We've got 10 pullets and 10 for the freezer. Do I need to let the boys get all the way to 18 weeks to process or can I do them younger like cornish hens? I'm the only person who eats chicken in my family, so not...
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    How old are they REALLY?

    We got black & red sex linked chicks in the mail. They arrived clueless about food and water, some still with umbilical cords (or whatever they're called on birds) and egg teeth, but others had some feathers on their wings already. Are they really only three days old? Do feathers show up that...
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    Housing question

    Hi! No, not a math error. One comment up from that, I'd said that I wanted to add a second floor so there's more room. I'm still not sure of the logistics, but what have I got to do lose?
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