I am about to start a small organic egg farm. I will have 300 hens and a few roosters maybe. I would like 3 breeds. If you have any suggestions or ideas please share. I am considering Black Australorp, Rhode Island Red, Black Star, Gold Sex Link, and Buff Orpington. I need a hen that will lay...
Has anybody raised quail commercially? I'm thinking about doing it. I did the math and with 1 acre of land and 2000 quail selling a quart (30 eggs) of pickled eggs at $5 per quart, in one year I could pay off the land coop feed and all other costs (2.5 month payoff of a $10,000 loan) and in one...
I love my birds and even my roosters but I just would like to be able to say I have a flock of RIR australorp etc because it's kinda embarrassing having to explain the blood lines of my breed. (Only me and one other guy in Germany have this particular breed so they are extremely rare) [/IMG]...
I'm happy with my breed so far but I want a flock of all hens and a pure breed unlike my mutt breed that includes roosters. They do breed very well and lay large strong eggs 6-7 times a week. Should I sell my flock and start over with a pure breed?
I'm new to quail and I'm wanting to get about 100 hens 25 roosters (sorry if that's not the right terminology) of pharaoh coturnix quail and i will want to do a "quail tractor" with the run all the way around a central coop...if I could get some plans, measurements, pics, or supply lists it...
He owns a few hundred thousand cumulative acres and he's a multimillionaire haha we got it covered. He just build a $250,000 horse arena and bought $50,000 worth of river rock for a wall and he's still not through for the year
All I know is I live in North Alabama and they pulled over 100 gators over 8 feet out of Joe Wheeler State Park over the course of the past 50 years......
If your barred rock bites anymore you can pick them up and hold their beak closed for a few seconds and put them back down.....look up aggressive roosters in the learning center and you'll see more of what I'm talking about. Always like to help