The family and I went camping this past weekend and when we got home my chukar rooster was making a new sound!! All I had was 1 pair and they are in the pen with my 13 bobs. the pen is 20'x20'. Since the hen started laying, I would collect all her eggs. I would save 10 or 12 at a time and...
Hello to all,
I have 5 26 week old BLRW that layed their first eggs this week. I also have a dozen bobwhite quail. My question is: When I get ready to start incubating eggs, Will I run into any problems, temp or humidity wise, if I have them both in at the same time?
Thanks in advance for...
Hello to all. This is my first attempt at a homemade incubator. As with many other homemade versions, I used the
common parts. Hot water heater thermostat, bottle lamp kit, small pc fan, automatic egg turner, etc.
The windows are the glass out of two old picture frames. The hole that is...
I introduced 4 new breeder hens to my flock of 8 bobs and 1 red. They all started fighting with the new birds. The breeders were 2 years old and my original covey was only 17 weeks with the excepyion of the red. I don't know how old she is. I was able to catch them and put them in a different...
Hello to all, I have skimmed over about half of the pages on this thread, and WOW!!! What great birds. I just hatched 3 from some eggs I got from a co-worker. I have seen pictures of chicks on this thread and have a question about color. All 3 are yellow but one has a dark spot on it's back. In...
kuntrychick, I was in a rush to get this coop chicken ready and didn't have time to figure out how to make it rain proof. I like the ease of installation with the buckets and don't mind going in to gather and check stuff. I had thought about turning them around and cutting a hole in the botton...
CountryCentinel, that is exactly what I did. I was in a time crunch to get this pen ready for these MF bantams and used 4 lowes buckets with 2 tops. I cut a test hole in a piece of scrap plywood. Once I got the right fit, I traced the cutout on the wall and cut out the holes. I then cut both...
Thanks Missi, I was just out there sitting and watching for a few minutes and feel pretty sure red is a girl. I saw him/her get submissive with a bobwhite roo and layed lown, then he climbed on his/her back. The roo slightly grabbed the back of red's neck and then stepped off. Looked like they...
UPDATE!!!
I came home from my vacation to find my new little red was doing very good. It was trying so hard to figure out how to get into my duck pen. I guess it needed some company. I ended up going to my Dep. Chief's house and getting some regular bob whites from him. I got 3 roos and 5 hens...
It will have some company in a week. My welding instructor raises reds and red x georgia giant. I'm gonna get a small covey from him next monday. This little red still has not made a sound. Like all the other comments, I'm thinking hen.
I put together a quick feeder and put it under the one spot that has some covering. He or she is doing quite well and is not skittish at all. Here is a pic of it checking out the feeder for the first time
And here just milling around
And here is a dust bowl that I found this evening. Looks...
This is what I love about this site....all the input from poeple in the know. I have Game bird breeder and I also have chick starter that I can feed. The only reason I was just going to let it forrage is because it was in the wild when we caught it and it looks pretty healthy to me. But I don't...
Mibotsu, here are some pics of what it looked like when I had ducks in it. It is pretty much the same now except a few more weeds and no water in pond.
Phil
I am going out of town next week, so he or she will have to make it for a week. There are lots of weeds and seeds in there now and there is about 1" of water in spots in the pond. I have seen it eating like crazy and also have seen it hop down in the pond and walk to the water level to get a...
Thanks aolt for all the feedback. I have had chickens and wild type ducks for the past 7 years, but after only a day of having this little jewel I WANT MORE!!! I have a 20x20 covered aviary that still has an old pond in it. Because they were wild type ducks, there was no housing. What type of...