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    What is your chickens favorite treat?

    Bok Choy. Someone gave us quite a lot of it to eat and my daughter brought some out to the chickens and they loved it. Now we grow it in the garden for them.
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    what I found out about feeds

    Quote: Just as a note, Flock Raiser is 20%. I had just looked it up a couple of hours ago because I'm trying to figure out what to settle on for our Valley Quail. Flock Raiser Info
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    Well, my kids took First through Fifth place with their Coturnix Quail

    Gongrats! So much fun for the kids, and they will be proud. We are leaving for the fair shortly so I'll definitely check out your birds. My 4H-er has her fair next week so we'll have our fingers crossed for her. No quail entries this year for her, though. ps. I haven't forgotten about the...
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    If you ordered a Brinsea bator...

    They shipped ours right away and we received it in five working days, Florida to California. Brinsea seems to do a great job so you can pretty much go by UPS's shipping estimates for your location.
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    Octo Eco Egg Layout

    Quote: Good catch. I hate to say it, but I even previewed the post and still didn't see the typo. 99.5 it is!
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    HOMING PIGEON QUESTIONS

    I personally would not fly the birds, and if you do I'd suggest waiting quite some time until they "imprint" to your coop and property, then train them to enter the trap for a long time before letting them free. By this time, you'll likely have identified a breeding pair or two, and should think...
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    Octo Eco Egg Layout

    We have our first set of eggs in our ECO now, and they are standing up. They were shipped eggs so we wanted to be sure to keep the large end up. Otherwise, I don't think it would matter. To keep them standing we used small chunks of soft packing foam at the end of each row of eggs to give just...
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    I should have been more patient....

    Is it possible the thermostat has failed or is not set up properly in the bracket? Might be worth a check.
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    Using an Octagon 20 ECO for quail?

    We have a batch of Valley Quail eggs in our ECO now. This is our first time using it, but everything is great so far. Neither temp nor humidity has varied even a bit. My only issue is that the bars that hold the eggs in place are adjustable in fixed increments and the eggs just happened to be a...
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    Pheasant eggs

    Quote: Can't speak for BigAnt of course, but before buying our Octagon 20 we would incubate in cartons in our home-built. We started with the eggs tilted 45deg, then at each turn would just tilt them 90deg over to the opposite side. Worked really well. I see you mention Valley Quail in your...
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    homemade incubators, i'm talkin big

    There is a person that sells plans for a larger incubator on eBay. 5 Tray Incubator
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    Update: Happy Ending - Bleeding from nostirls, very lethargic

    Update: I was certain we'd find the bird dead the next morning as late Sunday night it was down on the bottom of the cage, head down and tilted, eyes open just a slit and literally heaving with every breath. She fooled me though, and in the morning I found her standing (but wobbly) and seemingly...
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    Update: Happy Ending - Bleeding from nostirls, very lethargic

    Thank you. We did put her in a cage by herself just in case.
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    Update: Happy Ending - Bleeding from nostirls, very lethargic

    Came home from a day trip to find one of our 3 month old Barred Rock pullets bleeding from a nostril and acting very lethargic. There is blood spattered all over the place as if it was shaking its head to clear it or something. Do you think this could be the result of an injury, or is there a...
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    Murray McMurray vs. Sandhill Preservation - which one would you choose

    Quote: I don't get that. McMurray is in Iowa. You are in Iowa. They drop shipped from TEXAS? What's up with that? They don't hatch everything they sell and have contracts with other hatcheries to provide some of the stock they advertise. I know that most, if not all of "their" ducks and...
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