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  1. RichardandTresa

    Thinking of raising quail for meat, but...

    Similar situation here (at first), I'm not a hunter, but grew up fishing (salt water), and have never had a problem killing, gutting and fileting the meat... Now, war blooded animals? OMG! I read the threads, watched the videos and decided on a new slightly curved SHARP set of shears to be...
  2. RichardandTresa

    Professional designer builds new pens with custom feeders and watering system!

    Thanks Gentry! They've been working for several months now... I added small plastic walls around the outside of the feed access holes as I was still getting some spillage from the birds... Now there's none! ;) I have so many other projects (both client based and my own) involving patents and...
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    Calibrating Digital Incubator Thermometers

    Hie Bean! Originally I placed the marbles in the quail egg holders along the perimeter all the way around leaving the center for the eggs... My hatch rate went up and I learned a trick to place the eggs point down in fixed egg trays during lock down, so I pulled the center two trays and made...
  4. RichardandTresa

    Professional designer builds new pens with custom feeders and watering system!

    HA! HA HA! How funny! And ingenious! Why didn't I think of that?!?!?!? (And here I am, an award winning toy designer!) What a great idea! And here I was going to ask (before I saw your photo), Wow! Someone else designed a "claw??? Another company produced one???? When I saw you photos I just...
  5. RichardandTresa

    Professional designer builds new pens with custom feeders and watering system!

    Ooops! The photo of our additional pens had the row of individual Quail Jail cages in at the time. Those were replaced with another pair of large pen cages and the individual Quail Jail cages were mounted on top of that... 4 breeder pens, 6 grow out pens and 8 Quail Jail cages. Two of our grow...
  6. RichardandTresa

    Professional designer builds new pens with custom feeders and watering system!

    UPDATE: Was browsing through threads (always looking for more info) and found my original thread here... It's been a while, but we've completed our quail pen rack, our freezer is filling up and we're up to about 30 eggs per day! (It's in the upper 30's and winter!). We also added two more...
  7. RichardandTresa

    Hens stopped laying after dispatching "other" chickens

    Thanks you two! Feeling MUCH better now! Next batch of Craigslist Chickens will also contribute some protein to the hens as well! We do treat out animals with total kindness... I like how you put it... "A GREAT life... and one bad day"... We should all be so lucky! Still waiting for...
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    Hens stopped laying after dispatching "other" chickens

    I'm seriously laughing my head off! (Really!) Our chickens used to be terrified of the lawn mower when we'd mow the back yard... Now (Actually they learned pretty quickly), they pace along the edge of the run trying to get as close as possible to it! (They've learned that when the grass...
  9. RichardandTresa

    Hens stopped laying after dispatching "other" chickens

    I've been searching here for answers to our decrease in egg production. We have 9 hens in a LARGE coop and LARGE run. They were all hatched this past spring and egg production slowly (but steadily), grew (Most eggs ever collected were 8)... They've been on 17% layer feed for quite a while...
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    How to boil and easily peel a Quail Egg

    Wow! A LOT of methods here... I've been researching a lot and found a website that had a "how to" method for easy peeling: Her method was to let the eggs stay in the refrigerator for up to two weeks BEFORE boiling... Then do the normal boil and ice water, then "roll" them on a table top...
  11. RichardandTresa

    are quail cold hardy??

    Thanks! They are essentially kept indoors (The breezeway is closed at night, open on one side during the day), and insulated. Not sure about humidity but we've never seen any of our quail group together for warmth. We have some 4 week old in there now and they seem fine. Still going to place...
  12. RichardandTresa

    are quail cold hardy??

    Since this thread has already been started regarding Quail being "Cold hardy", I figured here would be a better place to post rather than starting a new thread. Ihope to get similar responses to my situation. We live in Oregon (Never gets that cold! Brrrrrr.!). Right now, nights are in the low...
  13. RichardandTresa

    Calibrating Digital Incubator Thermometers

    The tubing and black fitting were purchased at Lowes: 1/4" clear vinyl tubing Black fittings: 90 degree drip irrigation fittings for garden. Straight fitting was the same. Syringe were bought at Co-op Grange or farm supply store. Larger fitting type syringe. I stuck the straight black...
  14. RichardandTresa

    Calibrating Digital Incubator Thermometers

    Feeling MUCH better today! Less stressed about "doing it right" and just going along for the ride! =D While I was calibrating the thermometers, I added some blocks of aluminum to simulate the mass of the marbles and eggs. I decided to keep them in. I removed two turner trays and set them up...
  15. RichardandTresa

    Calibrating Digital Incubator Thermometers

    Thank You! ...For giving me the space to laugh at myself! I really take all the farm animals we keep (Rabbits, Chickens, Tilapia (Aquaponics), and Quail), seriously as in a reverence (?) (honor), that even though most we will harvest, I take the responsibility to give them the best lives they...
  16. RichardandTresa

    Calibrating Digital Incubator Thermometers

    I've Got a brooder full of my first Quail hatch and getting ready to set 40 more eggs today or tomorrow. My first hatch happened one day early and there were several "runts". It was brought to my attention that I either chose to hatch some very small eggs OR... I may have had my incubator...
  17. RichardandTresa

    Coturnix Chicks Dieing. Chill? Virus? Runts just giving way to nature?

    Sphanges: I LIKE your thinking! Very perceptive/exploration in your questions... You hit on some points that TOTALLY resonated with me that I will be addressing in my upcoming hatch (collecting eggs for a setting on Sunday/Monday). You really got me thinking things through again. (Although I...
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    Coturnix Chicks Dieing. Chill? Virus? Runts just giving way to nature?

    Hi Sill, Thanks for the advice! Ironically, I was grinding up feed and sprinkling it on the paper towels so they could eat and then figured I'd watch them "transition" to the feeder. One of the things I changed was to grind up their feed and replace the feeder with the smaller bits and...
  19. RichardandTresa

    Coturnix Chicks Dieing. Chill? Virus? Runts just giving way to nature?

    Thanks for the advice Margie! I'm really focused with my research regarding all of our urban farming (Rabbits, Chickens, Tilapia and..Quail)... Read for months before designing and building habitats, learning how to care etc... I also take LOTS of notes, treating all of this like an...
  20. RichardandTresa

    Coturnix Chicks Dieing. Chill? Virus? Runts just giving way to nature?

    So Sad... Two more died this morning... Did some more research and the symptoms fit "Drop Wing"... read some mention about antibiotics, vitamins and adding sugar to their water... Does anyone know anything about this? There are one, maybe two more with early symptoms (I think). Lethargic...
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