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    Natural or Incubator

    I use a heat lamp and keep them on my screen porch in a large rabbit hutch I keep the light turned so they can be in it if needed or they can get out if not needed. I have never understood it I do everything just like I would my chicks or guineas and I might loos 1 or worst case 2 out of 10 or...
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    Natural or Incubator

    I have 3 Bobwhites 2 female and 1 male my girls are laying went out last night and found 6 in the coop but there is no signs where either of my girls want to sit the eggs. Do these somewhat domesticated quails sit their eggs or do I have to incubate them. I incubated some last year and hatched...
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    white food grade 5 gallon buckets for nesting boxes?

    5 Gallon buckets are all I have ever used and I’ve had my hens in them for 5 years I have J Giants and they use it fine. I use dry wall mud buckets though and you can get them for free if you know any drywall finishers. The mud is something that when it gets wet you can wash it out with a...
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    Pheasant Coops

    That makes sense about them hurting themselves and I do have a Border Collie but he is pretty good with my birds. I have or had chickens quail turkeys and guineas but this pheasant thing is new to me, so this is a learning adventure for me. About how many sqft per bird would I need in their...
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    Pheasant Coops

    I am getting ready to be a first time pheasant raiser and I have a couple of questions. I am raising them for pets I am going to sell the chicks I hatch and also fertilized eggs. I am planning on keeping 1 rooster and 2 or 3 hens. I do not have enough room for a big on ground pen but I am...
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    Incubator Trays

    I am building a cabinet style incubator I am thinking about just getting a bunch of the fiber or paper egg trays to use in it I will sit them in a frame that has rat wire in the bottom when the eggs are ready to hatch I can just remove the tray trash it lay some paper towels over the wire and...
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    Guinea and Quails

    I know you cannot keep chickens and quail together but can you keep guinea keets and baby quail together I have 1 brooder put a row of wire through it and made 2 sections but I still have them crossing over some how they seem to get along very well together but what is the chance of desease. I...
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    Five week old guineas & feed/housing ?s

    I keep my keets and chicks in the same brooder cage and have never had any problems and then I mix game bird, med chick and cracked corn for feed they seem to do good with it my chicks are larger than the others I have raised at the same age I think it is the feed. I took out my chicks...
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    Broken Leg?

    OK Thanks I will get the news paper out and just leave the paper towels on the wire I will work on him tonight.
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    Broken Leg?

    One of my bob hatchlings has a leg problem. His leg just lies to the side sticks out and he does not move it his other leg is fine could it be broken is there something I can do. It still gets around with the leg messed up I tried catching it this morning to look at it and could not get my...
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    Fertile and Unfertile Eggs

    I usually try and set the eggs every 10 day or so. The feed thing is a thought I have been feeding them along with my roosters that roam the barn cracked corn and grower so that could be it I knew that quail needed high protein did not know about the guineas.
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    Fertile and Unfertile Eggs

    1 of each
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    Fertile and Unfertile Eggs

    Well I have a large barn that I keep them in during the week I have the door open with a little fenced in area where they go out side and roam I keep them in there because I hade some dogs chase off their brothers so I only let them roam the yard on weekends when I am at home. They eat feed and...
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    Fertile and Unfertile Eggs

    I have been incubating eggs most of the spring I have set over 30 eggs from one guinea in 4 different rounds. I am having a very hard time with them hatching. I have hatched 3 out of the 30. 4 out of the 27 eggs that did not hatch had a chick the rest were just plan unfertile looking eggs. I...
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    Lost three keets to something

    Just had almost the same thing happen except it went in the hole I cut in the wire to put a water bottle got 1 guinea keet and 1 RR chick pretty sure it was a snake saw a 6ft long black boy in the barn up in the rafters one night not to long ago think he is also getting my guinea eggs found 3...
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