Thanks for the tips @Farmgirl1878 and @BlueBaby We had some hardware cloth on hand, so we put up what we had available. The camera is going up tomorrow.
Hoping someone can give me some insight into what did this to my chicken run. I was gone for two nights and came home to one of my eight hens wandering the yard. Expecting the worst, I ran to the coop. The other seven hens were in coop. Everyone was fine. There was a nesting box full of eggs and...
We hatched our very first quail yesterday using a HHD New Technology incubator that my husband bought on Amazon for $60. Ten of the 24 hatched. We didn't candle them, so I don't know how many were actually fertile.
I agree with @cherrynberry. My 12yo begged for quail, so we got 14 from the local feed store in April. Yesterday we hatched our very first batch. Ten of the 24 hatched, and 9 survived. For our first time, we are thrilled with nine new babies! Now, here's hoping they are all females!
This picture is from May 26, when little Alfredo was 4.5 weeks old. As of yesterday, June 9, her beak is even worse. I haven't seen her eat chick feed or drink, but she behaves like all the other chicks. I threw some watermelon rind in the run a few days ago. She couldn't peck at it, but she...
My Orloffs are 6.5 weeks old. I'm new to this breed and fairly new to chicken raising in general. How would you even begin to determine this chick's sex?